I had my surgery 10 days ago. And I still feel pain when walking, unless I support my stomach. The pain is in the largest incision region. It kind of makes me walk hunched over. Other than this pain is minimal. Do others have this pain? I thought the pain would be gone by now.

Your not alone! I had my sleeve on the 10th and I'm still walking around hunched and holding my scar where the Dr pulled out my stomach, I still have a hard time getting out of bed. Along with horrible rib pain.

Have either of you tried an abdominal binder? This would support your stomach while walking and possibly lessen the pain.

It's the abdominal muscles trying to repair themselves. Muscle pain lasts a while but it will get better a little bit each day. I still had intense pain for about 2.5 weeks then one day nothing at all! Then I sneezed and was brought back to reality. But eventually no more pain.

I had the same pain and got an abdominal binder and it worked like a charm. I’m a month post op and no longer need it....plus it’s way too big now for me to use!

I had my surgery 10 days ago. And I still feel pain when walking, unless I support my stomach. The pain is in the largest incision region. It kind of makes me walk hunched over. Other than this pain is minimal. Do others have this pain? I thought the pain would be gone by now.

Yup! Mine got a lot worse when I went back to work at around 2.5 weeks. I’m currently 4 weeks out and a few days ago it just disappeared. It went from crippling pain to normal almost overnight. My surgeon told me today that’s pretty common. I do recommend a binder while you wait it out. It didn’t cure my pain completely, but it did cut way back on the number of times I got a sharp pain at that incision site. It worked the best for me if I put it on while I was laying down. I figure that’s the position I was in while they stitched up those muscles, so if I bind my stomach in that position it will lessen the pulling.