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Debilitating pain after incisional hernia surgery with mesh – 7 months post op
Hello fellow hernia/mesh sufferers,
I‘ve come here to seek help. I‘m from Germany.
I had surgery for an incisional hernia in January 2025, and I‘ve been in pain every day. I‘ve had a laparoscopic repair with mesh (IPOM) around and above the navel. The area that’s hurting the most is right under the ribs where the upper edge of the mesh starts. I‘m fairly thin and I can feel where the mesh is fastened (feels like hard lumps), I was also aware of all the tacks – hopefully mostly absorbed by now.
It’s a sharp stabbing, burning, piercing sensation that gets worse with movement, like burning nails moving back and forth. The area around it is sore and achy. I can’t walk more than 2 miles before I‘m in debilitating pain (7-8).
I feel like the mesh is tugging and pulling all the time, and sometimes it‘s like it’s chafing mechanically on my insides, like there’s a pebble of barbed wire. My entire upper abdomen feels cramped and achy, every day. The pain has gotten worse recently.
My surgeon basically said that I‘m too sensitive and I should wait and not focus on the pain so much (how??). I don’t think he’s understood. He would have taken a look inside (to maybe trim the mesh a bit as he said) during a new surgery- while installing more mesh for a small inguinal hernia I seem to have gotten since. I canceled that.
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