Left Shoulder Pain

what is that from?

Left shoulder pain is usually trapped gas. Typically from eating too much. Even when I have eaten less than a cup of food. It can happen occasionally. I take gas x, and it works for me sometimes. When I notice that I have it more often, I start taking Beano before I start eating. That seems to work better by stopping me from getting it at all.

I have noticed I get a dull ache in my left shoulder whenever I'm eating too much! For me it's a gentle reminder to quit eating!!

correctomondo!!

 I also get it when I drink liquids with a straw. 

I had dull shoulder pain for about 30 minutes...about 5 hours after eating

I had it off and on for about 3 months after I was banded. Mine was gas.

 had it on and off for the first month and a week after i got first two fills. I goes awayand is usually gas
wendy

Either gas or food presses on the diaphragm, right by the top of the stomach. The nerve system which serves the diaphragm passes through the left shoulder and so we feel referred pain.

People say "but I can't' get gas in my shoulder" - and they are correct, of course. But the cause of the pain is the gas (or the food). But we feel it elsewhere. So treating the gas can solve the problem. For many years, left shoulder pain was my soft stop sign after eating.

Kate

Now that I am thinking about it, when I used to over eat before surgery,  would get the same pain in the same place.