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Inguinal hernia mesh removal
You may ask. May hernia occurred in the fall of 201x. I saw a quote hernia specialist about 5 days later. Watchful waiting. I did this but about a month but later it seemed to be getting larger and painful, so I decided to have the surgery during the winter so I could be recovered for summer. The surgery was in the Feb.. Recovery was not as fast as the Dr. stated but getting better until 7 weeks later. While driving it felt like a knife slicing or ripping in the surgically repaired side. The pain was around 8 or so. Nothing relived it. This was on a Sunday and I called the Dr. office Monday morning and they downplayed it. For the next 2 years I saw 6 different so called experts from the hospital to figure out what was wrong. They never did the proper imaging. It did get somewhat better but I could not walk normally. We came to the conclusion that it might be the mesh. They also found a hernia on the other side. So I found a great Dr. another state. He fixed the hernia on the other side but found a Femoral hernia on the side of the first hernia. This could have been the problem that went undiagnosed. He also went in and removed the original mesh. Felt so much better in the recovery room. They basically had to hold me done I was feeling so much better right away. That weekend I spent an entire day walking and standing.
Feel free to ask any more questions. Writing is not my thing, as you can probably tell.
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