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What should I do?
40 year old male. I had open surgery with mesh to repair an inguinal hernia on my lower right side in 2008. 12 years have passed and I never thought it about it much and assumed some of the problems I will describe below were due to “age” but now I am considering my options and which doctors to consult:
1.) inability to do any core exercises: i believe i have acnes (nerve entrapment) my abdominal muscles painfully contort and spasm during any core exercises thus i have been unable to do this activity since when i healed from my surgery. i am still able to exercise, just not anything involving my core.
2.) pain while sitting or lying down – i have a dull constant pain in my lower right abdomen which i have learned to ignore over time. it is more pronounced when i am at my desk or on a flight and i assumed it was related to GI issues but it is constant and there whether I eat or not.
3.) GI issues – constant IBS type symptoms since the hernia mesh repair. i may just have IBS but i am wondering now if my feeling of incomplete bowl and bladder despite multiple bathroom visits is due to the nerve entrapment issue.
Feel free to give me your thoughts. I don’t have some of the nightmare symptoms i have read on this forum but my quality of live has definitely decreased since the mesh hernia repair. Can i just get it out or should I try some of the other options such as a neurectomy that I have read about which are used to treat ACNES?
Thanks in advance.
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This discussion was modified 4 years ago by
HerniainTX.
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Thank you for the advice and feedback. Yes I was 28 at the time. The muscle spasm is so strange, it feels like a charley horse of the abdomen and it only happens during strenuous exercise, but the dull pain is always there.
I am looking through the posts that you suggested, very helpful. I am going to request my records from my previous surgeon, he is still practicing in VA.
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You were 28 when you had the hernia repair? Do you know what type of mesh and how it was used? There is a very wide variety of materials and methods, even in open repair. 12 years ago is probably a plug or a Kugel patch or the Prolene Hernia System. The details of the procedure will be useful.
There are some recent posts from jnomesh about IBS and mesh. Search for those. You need to find a hernia repair expert, that also removes mesh. Most of today’s “specialists” only know how to implant mesh.
Spend some time reading through the many years of posts on the forum. There is a lot here. Your situation does not sound surprising, although the spasming is a bit different. But if these things started right after surgery then the odds are that the material or method is the cause. Good luck.
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