Ok, I have been very curious about what causes the infamous left shoulder pain that most of us have experienced after surgery. So I did a search and I came across this article in the Washington Post regarding Lapband surgery and having your Vagus nerve snipped also! It seems that they did a study and the patients who got their nerve snipped along with lapband surgery had a better results as opposed to just doing the lapband alone.

Could Nerve-Snipping Spur Weight Loss? - washingtonpost.com

Ok, I have been very curious about what causes the infamous left shoulder pain that most of us have experienced after surgery. So I did a search and I came across this article in the Washington Post regarding Lapband surgery and having your Vagus nerve snipped also! It seems that they did a study and the patients who got their nerve snipped along with lapband surgery had a better results as opposed to just doing the lapband alone.

Could Nerve-Snipping Spur Weight Loss? - washingtonpost.com

The pain is from the vagus nerve being pinched by the band or by the flp of stomach that is sewed around the band during the surgery to hold the band in place. IT IS NOT FROM GAS....which seems to be the canned response from most surgeons and their staff....IT NEVER GOES AWAY...my surgery was 11-19-09 and I still have the pain IT IS HORRIBLE keeps me from ever eating properly --- I take 2 bites and am in such pain I have to go throw up what I have eaten...it takes about 40 min to start again to eat ... by this time my food is cold and it is everything I can do to eat at all...mostly I throw it away. Also anything sugar free I eat gives me HORRENDOUS gas....I swell up and it litterly ruins my day it is so bad...I can't go anywhere if I drink the Protein drinks or eat sugar free....stuff I see now is tied to this Vagus nerve....

I was told that the nerves in your diaphragm which sit above your stomach seem to show pain in the left shoulder. It is just the way the brain interprets the pain.