Chronic Pain After Inguinal Hernia Repair (Boston)

Hi Dr. Towfigh, thanks for checking in. I really appreciate it.

I have made the decision (was a big decision for me) to travel there to see you. I have an appointment scheduled for the first week in November.

Unfortunately I took a turn for the worse the Sunday before last, on 09/04/16, and I feel beyond stupid for this. This might/probably doesn’t make any sense from a medical standpoint. Or maybe it makes perfect sense, I don’t know, all I know is this is what happened and I don’t think it is a coincidence. I overate a little bit, (Not even that much) which was my own fault. But at the same time it’s not, because I should be able to have a few more carrots if I feel like it. Anyway, as my belly was expanding from getting “too full” I felt such pain where the Mesh is, a “pressure” type of pain, (That I have felt many times before, just hasn’t been this bad in months) it kept getting worse and worse. It felt like it was going to explode and pop out of me. Ever since that Sunday (The first 3-4 days or so after were really bad, was scared it was going to stay that bad, but it got a bit better) but I have been overall worse, like I hit a rewind button to how I felt 4-5 months ago.

Since then (Last Friday 09/09/16) I was able to get that specific MRI you were kind enough to point out in this thread, which I already sent a Medical release form to get a copy of, and I am going to mail a CD copy of it (and everything else I have so far) to you about 3-4 weeks before my appointment. (They told me everything looked remarkable, but of course that doesn’t mean that it is)

I also have an appointment with the Pain Center in a couple weeks to get a ultrasound guided nerve block of Bupivacaine of the Ilioinguinal/Iliohypogastric nerves. I actually read in the “Sages Manual to Groin Pain” that Bupivacaine was something mentioned to use, so it makes me feel more comfortable about the procedure in general (Meaning/comparing it to if the pain doctor wanted to use a medicine that wasn’t mentioned your book) But from what I read it is usually done consecutively with another shot of a the Corticosteroid “Triamciolonacetonide” I am going to ask the doctor about it. Not in a “Why aren’t you giving me this too” type of way, more like just telling him I read about it helping, and just seeing what he says about it.

If you happen to think of something else that I can do/ask/have done before I see you to save some time (and well money for me too, insurance purposes) then please let me know.

Either way thank you so much again, and I’ll see you in 7 weeks or so.

And to fromindia25:

Thanks for checking up on me. Sorry, for some reason I didn’t get a E-mail notification that someone replied to this thread when you did.