Inguinal hernia mesh removal

i understand the feelings you have and feel for you. Everyone thinks and says it is just a hernia. I did not like discussing it, I think one is the location and second no one believes you on how bad can the pain be and life changing. I was bounced around to 7 doctors, OT, PT, ART, acupuncture, Reiki, graston, message, pain management, drugs, nerve blocks, lidocaine infusion all to find no relief. I think I might be missing a couple of other treatments.

Without answers to how, why, what is wrong and any course of fixing it by my world renowned hospital and Doctors I was lost. Your life changes completely everything suffers. I did get into pain management group sessions to discuss on how to live with disabling pain for the rest of my life. Everyone in the group you could see the problems they were having and seemed in much worse shape than I was in, I felt guilty for being in the group with them, they seemed to be much worse off than I was, I just had a hernia and again how much do I want to discuss in a group about the location of the pain and suffering. You go in for this supposed simply surgery with very little side effects and come out in pain and suffering with no answers. I started to say my surgery was semi elective. This in not like having a blocked artery that has to be fixed. Some of the studies have post surgical pain at 30%, did your surgeon tell you that?

Again you need to see someone that is very specialized in this. It was not funny but when I was working with both the GS and Urologist both stated the problem was for the others specialty to figure out what was wrong, it was not their part of the body they fix. They also kept saying no big deal in losing a testicle, you have two but did you read my complete history, low T. I would have liked to have said since both were male doctors If I lose one of mine by your surgery than you will have no problem losing one of yours.

You need your records. Do not be surprised if they are not complete and can not answer your questions. After my surgery things the doctor told me did not make sense. I kept asking questions which he could not answer as to explain the surgery again and why did you do this aspect of the surgery. Finally I was told under no circumstances to ask him about the surgery anymore. I would to try to make an appointment with the surgeon and have her go over what she did and why. Use your cell phone to record with permission so you have a record. I think a lot of Doctors think a lay person can not understand what they might explain to you. For the longest time I could not figure out about the Lipoma that kept coming up and why during open surgery it was removed and with lap it was not. I think Dr. Earle on this site explained it, so everyone could understand it. I too had a Lipoma removed or the Doctor stated it verbally but was not in my OR records. Why I asked. He said it is so common during a hernia surgery he does not tell the patient or note it in the records. If it happens so often the patient should be told in pre surgical consult so when they read the op reports they understand why it occurred.

Not knowing the exact type of pain you have and being a lay person, one treatment to look into that is done for PVP is denervation of the spermatic cord. Again there are only a few top doctors that do this or I would trust . I think the leading expert in the US is in the Orlando area. This is one treatment one doctor thought might help in my case but I backed out when I did not feel comfortable and is this the correct way to go and when the surgeon stated unlike other doctors at this hospital” I will be in the OR for your entire procedure”. Meaning the resident will by doing the surgery. Been there, done that and I was screwed, NO THANKS. Come to find out, I had a different type of hernia which you do not fix with denervation of the spermatic cord. Was the surgery really for me or for training a resident.

From what you describe your Doctor might have been over her head when doing your surgery and was unprepared and did not have the knowledge, experience or ability to do the correct procedure once see was faced with reality of the situation, you get to suffer, how fair is that. I found this out after my surgery. Thanks Doc for not telling me the truth about yourself. A little late now that your PA tells me you told her I dont know what could be causing the problems since I do so few. Before the surgery you told me you were a world class hernia specialist that does this surgery all of the time. Maybe your super ego and you do so few is the issue. When I spoke with Dr. Goodyear who has done what 15K hernia surgeries or so. I told him my surgeon for open stated he removed x body part. Dr. Goodyear said he never had to do this, it might occur when doing it by Lap but not open.

Hope this helps and again good luck.