hi everyone I was banded on Oct 2nd 2009. I like everyone else had shoulder pain after surgery and I keep hearing everyone talk about how its from gas.... when I went to my follow up doctors appt. That was the first question he asked me ...if I had shoulder pain. I said Yes and he said it was from the surgery and the muscle is sore somehow all conected blah blah.... was I the only one who was told it was NOT pain in my shoulder from gas????........ sorry I know its after the fact, but its kinda bugging me.

I had a bit of shoulder pain and wondered if it was gas but to be honest, it just didn't feel that way. I asked my doc about it and he said the same thing, that it was probably from the surgery and not gas. I never did get any gas but then I spent little time lying or sitting after my surgery.

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I have shoulder pain about twice a week and i am 6 and 1/2 months being banded. It is not the gas from the surgery after a few days that gas is absorbed. My doctor told me that the tubing that runs from the band to your port rubs on your diaphram which causes pain in your shoulder ( i guess there is a nurve that runs from the diaphram to your shoulder) He told me some people have the pain and some don't because it all depends on the persons body and the way the tubing lies in the body not everyone has it rubing the diaphram. He told me that people that have really bad shoulder pain they take all the fill out of the band causing the band to drop a little on the stomach making the tubing not rub on the diaphram anymore and then they try to refill it slowly. My shoulder pain has gotten better since i have had my last fill i don't know if the last fill moved the band alittle and the tubing no longer is rubing the diaphram anymore but i do feel a lot better now.

thanks for the reply ....I didnt believe I was the only one not buying the gas pains, I thought there had to be more to it....although I do believe some people have gas pains I knew mine wasnt from the gas pain in my shoulder