Hi Everyone,

I have searched for this symptom/effect and not found anything. I am 2 days post-op and experiencing arm pain when it is time for my pain meds. It feels like over exertion pain like every muscle from my shoulders to my wrists to my fingers are on fire. Like I dug a ditch the day before. It is resolved when I take my pain meds. I kind of wonder if the fact that I have been compensating for my stomach muscles by using my arms and that is why they are so sore. But really, I can say they hurt more than my stomach! Another odd tidbit, my arms feel hot and are red like they are sunburned and upper chest too - not my tummy area, the decolletage are between my throat and my breasts. I would think I was having an allergic reaction but I have zero symptoms regarding my throat or breathing or temperature.

Any thoughts?

Could be from the anesthesia.

I had the same thing that your describing after I had back surgrey! I think it was from hanging off the table for so long or something. I had to prop them up on pillow on each side of me to make them feel better.

It can also be caused from the air when they inflate your abdominal cavity for laparoscopic procedures.

I have the same pain, when I walk it gets better so I'm thinking it's gas buildup

I talked to the Doc, he said it was the anathesia, that it is a combination of drugs that put you to sleep, immobilize you and relax you. He said it sounded like I tensed up before the relaxation part kicked in and that is why I felt like I had been digging ditches. I feel so much better today, I think it helped to know what it was. ...

OMG I'm hurting more from this shoulder/arm/neck/wrist pain than my incisions! And mine feel very hot too. I just assumed it was the tension that had built up when I was trying to use my arms instead of my stomach muscles.

I am going to do a lot of walking today and going to lie in a shallow bath of Epsom salts and hot Water.

Hope your arms are feeling better today, Welcome to the losers bench!