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Spasms for months – Dr. suggested mesh removal
I had bilateral inguinal (indirect) hernia repair w/ mesh in 2014. I am now 31 years old (male).
A few months ago, I started an intense stair running routine.
One night, after 2 weeks of running stairs, I was lounging on the couch. I crossed my legs and felt a ripping sensation right near my pubic bone. It was alarming and I was scared to move. Eventually I did. It didn’t hurt, but I called off the exercise for a while.
A few weeks later, I did a light workout. The next morning, pain began. It hurt to touch right above my pubic bone, and it hurt to cough. I felt like I had a recurrence. To my surprise, local docs couldn’t find anything. After 2 weeks it no longer hurt to touch, but spasming became almost non-stop, and I would get sharp pains when initiating movement.
It has now been 4.5 months. I have had a CT scan and two MRI’s. My second MRI showed a moderate amount of fluid near the pubic bone, but otherwise, nothing definitive.
Even as I type this out I am having spasms. They are just never ending. Sharp pains still happen intermittently with initiating motion, leaning, starting to walk, etc. It can also hurt to compress my belly, i.e, holding my 1 year old son or even hugging my wife after work.
A Dr. recently recommended mesh removal. I am considering it because the spasms and sharp pains have been such a drag on me for so many months now, but I am also bit hesitant to sign up for the removal since it sounds like it’s just a “best guess” at what the source of pain could be. Is it possible to do a diagnostic laproscopic exam? Something to try to find the true source of pain before I get the mesh cut out of me? For what its worth, I don’t feel like most of my exams have been very thorough.
Thank you for whomever responds.
Thomas
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1 Reply
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Responded to you in another post.
In short: problems that require mesh removal (with infection as the major exception) almost never pop up this many years after repair. They usually start in the first year.
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