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Pain in Hernia site and One testicular after 2 surgeries
I have a terrible bad luck for going through 2 surgeries on the same right inguinal hernia in the last 7 months. The first one was open in Oct 2023, and the second this May 2024 was robotic. The both were repaired with meshes.
After over 2 months of first open surgery, I felt something wrong, because the bulge was still there and straining pain on the hernia region together with right testicular every day. My pee is so slow and urgency and I have to pee with force, the force actually causes the pain the hernia site. When pee, the urethral is burning.
I did not have this kind of pain and pee problem before the surgery. In the following 3 visits, I complained about the problem to the surgeon, he ordered the CT which says post-surgical changes of the hernia operation. The surgeon told me to give the body more time to recovery. I just waited and waited hoping the pains would go away with time being.
But the pain problems still there and the bulge still there. Then April 2024, the ultrasound measuring a hernia on same operated site 2.7 x 0.7 x 3.3 cm, there is partial reducibility and contains fat and bowel. Valsalva maneuvers demonstrate movement of abdominal contents through the defect. It also reports that dedicated sonographic evaluation of the right inguinal area demonstrates an inguinal defect measuring 1.0 cm. The surgeon told me that the hernia was recurrented. This time I had a robotic repair with mesh again in May 2024. The mesh is 16 x 12 cm manufacturer – MEDTRONIC-6891 from the surgery report.
Now it’s been 4 months, the pains, kind of swelling and straining are still in the hernia site and together with right testicular pain. When in the afternoon, the pain getting worse until go to bed at night. It seems the right abdominal carries one pound bag in the right groin when sitting, standing and walking. Pee problem is the same since the first surgery, slow, frequent urgency, but just a bit and urinary catheter is burning.
Last week MRI shows small amount of intrinsic T1 hyperintensity within the right inguinal canal could represent small amount of blood products/hematoma. MRI also says I have a moderate stool burden throughout the visualized colon raises constipation. 2 or 3 Hard lumps cover more than in the right inguinal area after the 2 surgeries. The surgeon says they are scar. I went to another general surgeon for second opinion, he also says sorry he could not do any help for my situation. Before the first surgery, the hernia was just a bulge, no any pain. When lying down, it was flat. The surgeries actually resulted in my sufferings every day.
I take Ibuprofen 800mg and Gabapentin for months, unfortunately they won’t help release the pains. I had 3 times Urine and urine culture tests after the robotic surgery and reports show no UTI. Based on my problems.
I come to the forum for help, any advice is greatly appreciated, thank you very much for your time.
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Hi Paul,
new to the forum and was reading your post,,, very sorry to hear of your situation however am very glad you shared your experience as a guide to people like me sitting on the fence.
I suggest you look at the following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMGJvHGJcQY
I was diagosed in june 2023 with a inguinal LH hernia 4cm no pain slight discomfort mostly leaning/bending forward . The echo results of which seem to have triggered my GP here in Belgium into a heightened state of panic to have it operated on asap. He was on the phone to his surgeon colleague to book an appointment. For a variety of reasons I later declined the appointment and decided to do due dilligence /research before doing anything. Briefly some advocate mesh others avoidance of mesh instead using local tissue to repair the hole. Another group take the approach that due to the instinsic weakness in the muscle and intrabdominal pressure the breach will occur later, elsewhere.lastly some fine fellows advocate wearing a truss coupled to targeted specific exercises to gain remission and avoid surgery.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlE7Dnp8dhM
All of which makes me even more perplexed as to why results are apparently haphazzard .
Hope some of this helps and you find a solution to the problem.
Gerald
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