Hey all! I had my surgery on June 25th and I am doing well. The only problem I have now is pain in my left shoulder. I think it may be the gas still but since I'm 8 days out I'm beginning to worry. Any words of advice? If it continues to hurt like this, I'm going to put a call back into the Dr.

I have read here about people having serious problems we mistook for pain. When in doubt, call your doc.

With that said, I was also banded on the 25th and thought I was over the hump until yesterday when I started having sharp pains off and on in my side. I don't feel that it is anything serious but maybe we still have some pains left to go yet.

I was banded on the 25th as well and I still have left shoulder pain. Maybe not as often, but its definitely still there. I asked my doctor about it yesterday. I wanted to know when it would go away. His answer - "Eventually." That helped.

Almost everybody has that same pain I think. Mine went away after about 2 weeks. But I notice that it even a month post op it comes back every once in a while out the blue. Really weird...

I had the shoulder pain for about 2 weeks following my 6/9 surgery. It ended abruptly, thank goodness!

Glad I found this post. I was banded 2 days ago and today the pain in my left shoulder started and wow is it painful. Other than that I feel fine. Pain is minimal, liquid phase isn't too bad, Iam not missing food like I thought I would. Its the pain in my left shoulder. OUCH. When they called to check on me today I informed them of the pain and they said it would subside.

Banded 7-2-08

7 1/2 lbs lost!!!!!!!

I don't want to scare anyone but my brother-in-law had his appendix removed two months ago. It was done like a lapband (laproscopicly). He still has the shoulder pain couple times a day.

It says in my booklet the bariatric center gave me that the pain can stay 6-12 months. So anyways, Iasked about the 6-12 months and they said they had people with the pain for that long. But usually at the most a onth or two then the pain goes down to a mear annoyance level.