Hi everyone. I had my first fill last week, my shoulder pain returned and I'm having an almost constant pressure feeling in my stomach. I never really even felt the band before my fill. Also, I am having a lot of gas which I didn't have a problem with the first weeks after surgery. Anybody experience this?

Jeen, my wife is 2.5 years out and down almost 100 lbs. She has had the shoulder pain from the start. It is a referred pain, as far as we have been able to determine. She gets it when she gets really hungry. She gets it when she eats too much or too fast. She also gets it if she gets a bunch of air in her tummy. I guess you could say it is her band, personified. Somewhere down there, something is touching something and you feel it in your shoulder.....go figure.

I had shoulder pain after my last fill.....it lasted about three days....seems fine now. I do feel it when I eat too much or two fast, I figure it's one of those warning things for me.

I thought this was just imagining pain in my left shoulder -- or god forbid another aliment!

I was banned on May 19th and have felt this pain since the day I got home from the hospital. It is usually after I "eat" and it hurts the most when I try to take a deep breath.

I will be putting this question on the top of my list for my doctor at my 2 week appointment.

I was banded on May 7th. I have shoulder pain, but the dr. said I would get it because of the hiatal hernia repair. I can't say it is because I ate too much or because I was hungry. It just aches.