Pain

I had my surgery on 4/23 and everything is going well. I've only lost 32lbs so far. I go to the gym three days a week, and I've been told that my weight lost my be a little slower because muscle weighs more. The problem that I'm having is sometimes out of the blue, I get this sharp pain on the right side of my abdomen. My gallbladdder was removed a few yrs. ago. Sometimes the pain is so intense it hurts to move. I'm trying not to scare myself into thinking that something is wrong. Maybe it's scar tissue? Did I tear something inside? I'm going for my 3 mo post op visit with my Dr. later this week, but I was wondering for now has anyone else experience anything like this.

Yvonne, I had the same problem about a month ago. I had surgery on 4/3/2003 and started back to the gym in mid june. I got this pain you are describing, called my doctor and he had me come in that day. He said it was the scar tissue stretching and that it may hurt for a week or so. So hopefully that is you problem. If it bothers you a whole lot I would stay out of the gym until you saw the MD. After all you want to make sure what it is prior to hurting anything more...Good Luck!

Yvonne, I had my surgery 4-22 and after I began working out I got the same pain, mine is gall bladder though. I did begin having it right after I started excercising though so if the pain comes back I will know what it is. Thanks for posting this. Hope you get to feeling better. Leann

Thanks for replying...I went to my doctor on Thursday, and she said that this pain is pretty common. She said that it most likely it's a small muscle tear. She also said that's it's nothing to worry over, but not to over do it in the gym. Since I have all of this new found engery, when I work out I want to go hard at it. I have to remember that my body is still healing internally from MAJOR surgery and I have ease my way into it.