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Inguinal hernia mesh removal
I am sorry to hear that you’re in pain. Did the original surgeon try anything to help your pain? Does anything help to reduce the pain or eliminate it? Did you have open or laparoscopic surgery? Did you have pain prior to surgery?
Try to document your symptoms and experience, what helps, what makes it worse, etc for your next appointment. Be as prepared as possible and seek out an expert in the field if you can, re-do surgery is very specialized.
The surgeon who did the initial surgery should be able to explain why they used mesh after removing the cord lipoma. There have been a few threads on the topic on these forums which could be useful to review as well, since cord lipoma is a really common finding:
http://www.herniatalk.com/hernia-discussion/978-importance-of-lipoma-of-the-cord.html
http://www.herniatalk.com/hernia-discussion/1077-fat-in-inguinal-canal-vs-hernia-vs-cord-lipoma.html
From the sounds of it, (and I’m not a doctor, so this could be wrong) the repair is basically the same.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15105999
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422475/
A good starting point is to find an experienced doctor with a lot of knowledge of hernia re-do surgeries and the complexities of them. You may have to travel depending on the state and city you’re located in as Beenthere suggests.
Good luck and keep us updated on your decisions and progress.