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My Dr Kang Hernia Surgery
It has now been about 75 hours since my Dr Kang surgery. I am very pleased with how it went. I had a scrotal hernia close to the size of a tennis ball plus a bulge on my right side where the hernia was. I told dr Kang during my consultation that 11 months prior my ultrasound showed fat content only in the right inguinal canal with no intestines. Dr Kang upon examining me was surprised how fast the hernia developed.
I decided to go with prolene sutures because he said the recurrence rate is less than .5% compared to 2-3% with absorbable sutures. He makes a 3.5cm incision.
Stephen was very helpful and walked me through the admission process and about seven different tests. Everything was fast and smooth.
Went back the next day for the surgery. Stephen assisted me in getting set up in the hospital bed assigned to me.
They provide a cabinet and a safe where you can lock and keep your valuables.
Then I was brought into the operating room and administered some kind of sedation through my nose to put me to sleep. The OR nurse said Dr Kang will come in 10-15 minutes and give me the local anestesia while I was sleeping.
I woke up during a dream and I could feel some pushing and pulling in the area of the hernia but no pain at all. Dr Kang then said to me that the only thing left to do was closing the skin and he also said that it was a large hernia.
I was wheeled back to my bed and told to stay in bed for one hour. Stephen came back and said that dr Kang was doing ten surgeries that day and that I was the fifth one. He can do two an hour as it takes him 20-25 minutes for a unilateral surgery.
I opted not to take any pain pills. I had some constant mild pain in the area of the surgery which stopped a few of hours later and then I only had pain upon moving especially when getting out of bed. I could walk very slowly. That night the pain became quite intense but only when moving. No pain at all if I wasn’t moving. I applied a cold pack which brought the pain down considerably and then I took a tylenol at 4:30 in the morning and the pain went down even more. When Dr Kang showed up four hours later around 8:30am I just got of bed in front of him pretty easily with bearable pain.
Went back to the hotel and the pain got worse. Stephen said that is to be expected. I also had some burning sensation upon getting out of bed.
Yesterday the pain was intense but I was still able to get out bed and walk slowly. This morning towards the end of the third day the pain decreased quite a bit and I am able to move around faster. One of the nurses at the hospital said most patients take the pain pills. I didn’t want to take them one reason being that I would be walking faster and making jerky movements which might work against the healing process of the incision. After day four I expect the pain to go down even more as the pain pills are to be taken for only four days.
As far as cost goes I moved with my family to the Philippines over four years ago. Ran into somebody there who had mesh surgery which he said went very well with no problems. He told me the cost. The cost of Dr Kang surgery plus about $1200 for hotel and airfare is about $500 less than the mesh surgery in the Philippines. You would think the opposite would be true.
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