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My post surgery experience journal
Hi all,
I’ve been a lurker here for the past few days when preparing for bilateral open hernia repair. I’m an 18 yr old (skinny) male and so the use of mesh was discussed. The problem was the hernia on my left was recurrent from a repair I had when I was around 10. What ended up happening before surgery is my surgeon decided to investigate and then decide whether or not to use mesh since it depends heavily on how the muscle tissue looks. Well, after the surgery I found out he did not use mesh on both sides since things looked good and the procedure was easy. Although I don’t wan’t a recurrence, I’d prefer it over some weird mesh complication.
Importantly, my surgeon was a pediatric surgeon meaning he is much more experienced in performing non-mesh repairs.
The purpose of this post is a journal of my recovery starting today.
So today I had surgery, arrived at noon and was in the OR at 1:30. I was out of the hospital at 4:15. I had some difficulty peeing but eventually got some out. I’m in a bit of pain right now, mainly on the right side especially when getting out of chairs and beds. Its pretty painful to walk so trying to limit that for now. (hopefully can walk more tomorrow).
I hope to update this frequently at first and maybe monthly later on.
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