Severe shoulder pain

I have the same left shoulder pain, hurts more when I breath in. Also I can feel my port easily and when I press on it the shoulder twinges with pain. No doubt it is band related. I am only 4 weeks post op, I am hoping it will go away, but I am going to give my doc a ear full because OTC pain meds don't do anything for it.

I have had severe shoulder pain since my surgery on 4.30.08. I seem to have it all the time though, when I wake up in the morning, if I eat something that my band doesn't like, when I drink water ect.... I have just come to realize that this is something that I have to deal with for a while. But I am glad that it is not something that is terribly wrong with me, cause I was thinking that is was. I did talk to my doctor and he said that it would eventually go away, but he said that it was cause they work so close the diaphram that that cause the shoulder pain. Please let me know if anyone elses has gone away so that I feel like there may be hope for me.

Mine finally did go away. It took a long time and I remember when food would get stuck it would get worse. I haven't had it for a long time now. At that time, sometimes it came and went and I couldn't figure out why.

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banded 12/06

Got to goal but maintenance was a
work in progress!

Band to sleeve revision surgery 4-29-09.
maintenance is so much less work!