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Chronic pain post abdominal hernia repair.
I completely get it. Before my chronic pain began, I was up at 6:00 am every morning and would go work out. Now, I sleep in until 1:00 pm on the weekends. I prefer to be asleep so that I don’t have to be awake. Chronic pain takes everything away from you.
My situation is a bit different in that my chronic pain was not brought on by a hernia surgery, but rather a spermatic cord denervation surgery. My surgeon skipped several crucial steps in my operation and left me with inguinal nerve damage.
Medication like gabapentin and oxycodone has been moderately helpful. Nerve blocks have helped but, just like you, they only helped me for a short period of time. Finding this forum was a godsend for me, because Dr. Towfigh gave me some much-needed perspective on my problem and was able to point me in the right direction. I had an appointment with Dr. David Chen at UCLA last month, and he diagnosed my problem as genitofemoral neuralgia. He is going to perform a genitofemoral neurectomy on me next month.
I am still in horrible pain everyday, but at least now I have some hope. I didn’t have that for a long time. You’ve come to the right place and I hope both of us are free of pain very soon.
