Pain in my left side...ouch!

Okay I am 2 weeks post op and been doing fantastic.  No issues at all.  Been feeling great.  Did alot of walking today.  I went to run errands nd when I got back home noticed a pain in my left side like right by my ribs on the inside.  Kinda feels like my drain is still there but it's not.  It hurts mostle when I twist or bend to the right (stretching).  Slouching kinda makes it hurt a little.  I just took a pain pill but should I be concerned?:  I am still on liquid / shake diet but going over to softs this week.   I live 3 hours from Columbia so that is not an option.  Should I wait until morning to see if I feel better?  Maybe I just overdid myself?  Or could I have pulled a muscle or staple?  It does not hurt when I am just sitting or being still.

Hey Jen, I have done that too.  I think its just the pain from where that stinkin drain was at.  I wouldn't worry about it, unless it gets worse.  I am also having pain around the incision site by my belly button.  It's not red or anything & not getting any worse so I take it that it's just healing.  I don't know.  Last night I took a deep breath & that same site felt like something sharp pulling.  I think it was the stitches inside.

I still feel like crap.  No energy at all.  Milk is the devil!!!!!  lol  OMG it makes me so sick!!!  I can't get any other milk, soy or lactaid, until Friday, so I guess I will have to go without protein until then, or try to mix it with water.  We'll see.   I woke up this morning feeling GREAT.  But it was short lived.  I went for a walk, got home, went to moms & started getting extremely weak, came home, had a protein shake & got sick.  Haven't thrown  up yet, but my pouch definitly doesn't like milk.

I've been a little paranoid with my pains in my belly since Deb has had so much trouble.  Evertime I have a strange pain, I'm like OMG!  is that normal, do I have an infection???  I'm trying to chill out, but it's kinda hard.  I really do not want to end up back in that hospital!

Glad your doing so well!  (((HUGS))) Angy

You know the milk is what I thought was making me sick.  I am doing process of elimination right now from all the items in my shakes.  I drank a 4 oz glass of milk and not a single gurgle.  WTH? lol  Only thing left is the powdered milk and instant breakfast.  So don't give up on the milk.  :)  I had cream od onion soup tonight and no gurgle.  Things are starting to get so much better.  I was all over today.  walked and walked and ran errands and went shopping.  Went my inlaws to pick apples and pears.  Stook a pear iny mouth and pulled it out fast and said to myself wtf am I doing? lol  Almost slipped. 

Lol,that wouldn't have been good. I wish I felt better. Can't wait to feel decent again. I didn't expect to feel this bad for this long. How much have u lost so far? I feel like I havent lost much. I weighed 235 day of surg & lost 10 lbs that first wk home. This wk I've only lost 1 lb. I feel like a failure already! Plus I feel like crap, sick & in pain all the time. UUUGGGGGG!!!! I just wanna feel good. WAAAAAAAA!!!!! Yes, I'm whining!! I can't help it. (((HUGS))) Angy

The forst week home I didnt lose anything.  But all together I have lost 27 lbs.  I am losing about 1 lb perday right now.  I wish you felt better.  I really feel blessed when I read yours and debs posts.  I feel good, not rubbing it in but thinking I am lucky I guess.  I took pain meds for 2 days after I got home.  1 when I had the drain out (just in case it hurt) and one tonight due to the side pain.

pAIN  is not just pain, it is always an indication of something.  at this point it could be the healing process of muscles and stuff stretching and pulling and healing. but if it continues and gets worse all the time call your doctors please.
Jen your shakes could be the combination of all what you are putting in them , may be getting way to much sugar. count it all up if it is more that about 9  that could be what is happening.

do you have any crystal lite? how about koolade with no sugar. then you can add splenda to it to taste. you may have to really experment to get something.
but i would be willing to bet it is the combinations of instant breakfast, milk and powdered milk.

Angy: the weekness could be from not getting much protein in. instead of mixing with milk and being in pain see what i said to Jen ok? your goal right now is to get in at least 60 grams of protein, i know that is a lot right now but like i said that is your goal.

hope some of this helps.

I don't have any issues with enough protein.  In fact some days I get over the needed amount.  I happen to like the premade shakes.  I just like a little something sweet and a bit "heavier shake like" once a day.  You are proly right, with the combo could be too much sugar.  Lets see

1.5 vanilla prot
7 instant bf

then ya got the powder milk AND skim milk.  Holy he!! that issss alot of sugar.  Hm thats what our NUT told us to do minus the vanilla but thats only 1.5.  But then again I am not drinking the whole thing either.  I am gonna try to make it without the instant bf because that is alot of sugar right there.  I have choc prot powder I will substitute it with.  Thanks Jan had not actually thought about the breakdown of each item.  Just figured since our NUT told us to it was okay.

Almost forgot.  I still have the pin in my side but it is veryyyy light today!  I think I pulled a muscle as I was very active all day yesterday.