Question:
Before I lost all my weight I never felt this, but a couple of months ago I was lying

flat on my back and had my hand on my sternum and felt a knot on the left side (where it goes up into a V between the breasts). There isn't one on the right side ... does anyone else have this?    — Betty Todd (posted on October 2, 2002)

October 2, 2002
My doc said that is where most of the work is done for an OPEN RNY proceedure. It probably is still some swelling or scar tissue. Hope this sets your mind at ease.
   — MARSHA D.

October 2, 2002
My doc said that is where most of the work is done for an OPEN RNY proceedure. It probably is still some swelling or scar tissue. Hope this sets your mind at ease.
   — MARSHA D.

October 2, 2002
I have not felt that, however I have a friend who is post op and has lost 160 lbs and she has mentioned to me a few times about feeling that knot. -Kim open RNY 7/17/01-132
   — KimBo36

October 2, 2002
I just read that your surgery was in 2001 so my first response is incorrect. My husband had hernia surgery a few years ago, open, long scar down his middle. He kept feeling a knot on the end to the left of his stetnum also and he was freaking out about it. Well, he went to have an MRI done on it and it turned out to be cartilage that was "growing". They said nothing to worry about. He can't keep from feeling it all the time. It is weird!
   — MARSHA D.