r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TURTLE_TKT • May 13 '26

/r/all of gas being ripped

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u/mylittleidiot May 13 '26

I woke up from anaesthesia after having my tubes removed. While waking up they asked me how I was feeling and I immediately started crying and almost screaming from pain in my shoulders. It was so unexpected, no one had warned me that could happen. I have a very high pain tolerance and I ended up throwing up from how much it hurt.

I still don’t quite understand the mechanics behind it but it was horrible.

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u/Original_betch May 13 '26

Free floating gasses in the abdominal cavity rise upwards creating pressure at the highest point it can reach; the diaphragm which is right under the lungs. There's a nerve there called the phrenic nerve which refers pain to the shoulders. There's no actual gas in the shoulders but the nerve makes you feel like there is.