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I had left shoulder/chest pain... or pulling feeling for a long time after my original surgery. Ask your doctor if he tightened or fixed your esophigial sphincter or hiatal hernia. Where they 'tack' it can sometimes pinch a nerve that goes across the left side of the chest and up to the shoulder. My surgeon 'untacked' mine during a subsequent surgery and I felt 100% better. However, my reflux did return. :( Best wishes to you on your continued success!!
Highest: 297 lbs/Lowest 127 lbs/Maintaining at 140-145 lbs 
RNY Nov 2009/Perforated Ulcers Jan 2010/Revised to modified VSG Dec 2011 
I plan to call my surgeon office tomorrow but was hoping to get some input here. 
BTW a friend of mine who had the same surgery a month before me also deals with a lot of abdominal pain.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
To whom it may concern.
I am looking for any and all ideas to get me through this abdominal pain. It is mid lower abdomin located under like a rib from what i can tell. It is a constant ache and burning, with sharp stabbing pain after I eat. I have been advised to eat a bland liquid diet which I have since the pain started 9 weeks ago.
I have had an Ultrasound, CT with contrast and they both look fine. I had an endoscopy which revieled some Eosinophilic Esophagitis which biopsys were taken. The great news is there isn't an errosion or ulcer at this time.
I have visited my primary physician as well as my bariatric surgeon and there is no plan from here except to maintain the bland soup diet.
I am frustrated with the pain, frustrated at not feeling well and frustrated that we are at a stopping block with no further plan that to just keep up with what I am doing.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? I feel like I am running the hamster wheel and not getting anywhere and feel like I am crazy.
PS I had my RNY in '07 with a perforated ulcer/repair two weeks after that.
Any and all input would be helpful.
Hi everyone--
To make a long story short, I had a Mini Gastric Bypass done in March of 2001, I lost 99 lbs and started to gain weight. I spoke with my surgeon and he performed a revision which from the original bypass at 6 ft to another 6 ft to make a total of 12 ft.
Well then I went into hell. I spent a great deal of time in the hospital on and off. I was given extra potassium on several different times, protein, TPN, picc lines, Triple central line catheters. Had perforated bowel, seizures, metabolic acidosis, and the list goes on. Everything under the sun made me barf. Couldn't keep anything down. Blood pressure went in the toilet. Spent a few times in ICU, telemetry unit. and such. I was a sick cookie.
Lost a great deal of hair, loss of memory, leaking stool, etc. So it came to pass that I had to get a reversal. I looked like a Holocaust Survivor. From the first surgery on the table I weighed; 359 and when I got on the table for the reversal, I weighed 129 and with heart problems starting.
About 5 or so days I ended up back in the hospital with dehydration, pain, nausea. They kept me for a few days. Sent me home with pain meds. well since then 8 yrs ago, I have chronic pain and nausea and vomiting. I basically live on pain pills and Zofran.
Most other surgeons have told me that I really should get another bypass which I agree with. Oh and of course i've gained most of my weight back. Which of course screws everything else up. I'm tired.
Now before any of you jump on my case I followed the "rules" to the best of my ability. I vomited up the protein mixes and continued to vomit on a great deal of stuff. However Gatorade was the only thing I could tolerate. I have been a mess.
I quit jobs, lost jobs, lost friends, etc. I have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and Gen. Anxiety.. Most days I would rather stay in bed under the covers. I don't exercise because I'M IN A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN. I have lower back arthritis, and my artificial hip.
I want to be off of disability and go back to nursing, but until I can work (if ever) I'm taking this time to go to school to get my BSN/MSN and I could work in nursing education.
I need help in finding a surgeon that will take medicare starting in May. Soo...
If anyone can help or lead me to the right path it would be truly appreciated.
Hello! I came across your post doing a web search for exploratory surgery on stomach pain in the right side. Your story sounds identical to what I am going through right now. I have had labs, CT scan and an endoscopy done and it has been 5 weeks of pain. I don't have my gallbladder any longer and I had bypass surgery in November, 2010. Did they ever find out what was wrong and causing the pain for you? I am scheduled to have exploratory surgery on February 28th and am scared that they won't figure out what is causing the pain.
Thank you!
Laura
Thank you Ladytazz, I appreciate your input. Yes my doctor told me about that, I will have to find something else to deal with the pain. Something I still have to look into. My first 3 hour meeting is this Friday, I should get an ear full of what you mentioned and so much more.
If you are reliant on NSAID pain medicines then you won't be able to take them after a RNY. The DS would allow you to take those and it also has the highest rate of weight loss, loss maintained and resolution of comorbidities. It is very malabsorptive so you would have to take a lot of vitamins, as you would with the RNY. The sleeve isn't malabsorptive and allows you to continue taking NSAIDs. You may want to check each board to find out more.
WLS 10/28/2002 Revision 7/23/2010
High Weight (2002) 240 Revision Weight (2010) 220 Current Weight 115.
I hope it helped you.
Elaine
