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How long did you wait?
You can check my other posts but it is a long story which I still do not have answers to.
About 6 weeks after my original surgery which seemed like a very slow recovery, I was driving when a very sharp pain occurred in the groin area like a knife slicing through or being ripped. The remarkable surgical team just put it off and did nothing, no imaging but put on drugs. With the pain also came not being able to walk normally. My walking stride was reduced to half and my mom with bone to bone in both knees could walk faster. Pain scale was about a 7-8. About six months after the first a new hernia occurred on the other side. Very small but very painful. ER visit with CT.
According to my original surgeon he stated he inserted the mesh so tight it would never move. This was open with PMII after we had agreed that he would use lightweight mesh and identify the three main nerves, according to him when asked afterword about the nerves “no nerves were in the surgical field of vision”. I also found out after the surgery this clinic had a 25-30% 1 year post hernia pain, told 8% total problems.
My insurance changed after 2 years and I was able to consult with Goodyear, Ramshaw and Yunis. I would recommend all 3 but it came down to I had a place to recover near Sarasota which is how I made my final decision.
The second surgery was Lap and they found a femoral hernia on the side of the original surgery with open removal of the mesh on that side. I could tell right away that things were much better on the original side.
Ask a lot of questions and go with your sixth sense. I should have(sixth sense) but I was getting the same answer from everyone I asked about the original surgeon. That he was an expert with excellent results and performed hernia surgeries all of the time and was fully trained on all current procedures. Found out afterward he had not done one in about two years plus he never documented any of my history prior to the surgery.
There are a couple of Dr.s in Milwaukee, I would skip Madison and I am not sure on N.IL. this is my personal experience and research(I am a patient not a doctor). Anyone one/ clinic can or call themselves an expert. I have found a couple that are members of the hernia society or whatever the name is, does non mean they are an expert, they pay the membership costs. I will recommend again read the book Unaccountable. At this time I want to help and inform as many people as possible. This not the surgery I was told about when growing up that it is just a hernia, one of the most simple surgeries.