Hi everyone! I had my sleeve surgery on Jan 4 and this morning I woke up what I can best describe as pulling pain the left of my belly button.

I spoke with the nurse practitioner at the surgeon's office who explained I have a large internal suture which is keeping my pouch and small intestine attached and that this suture will dissolve in 5 weeks.

Anyone else had to deal with more pain in the third week? I'm in a bad shape right now and don't want to take anymore time off work.

Thanks I'm advance for the comments

I had this as well for about a month after surgery. It seemed to get worse as the day went on and was better in the morning. I took pain medication a few times when it was really bad.

Hi Missy! It's exactly as you're describing it. Tylenol Extra Strength is just not cutting it. I'm going to ask the doctor for prescription pain killer tomorrow.

same here, then one day it just popped. No ill effects.