Excalibur
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[USER=”2029″]Good intentions[/USER], I submitted a request for a copy of the surgery notes last week (apparently a third party holds the records, who’d a thunk). I’ll post when I get it.
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Thanks for the info Chaunce1234. I actually met with the surgeon today. He said everything looks great. Pain and discomfort seem to be improving as well. But I’m not going to lie: the whole mesh on the spermatic cord thing really has me geeked. That just doesn’t seem right. I asked the surgeon about it and his answer seemed rather vague.
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[USER=”1916″]Chaunce1234[/USER] I’m three weeks post-op. Recovery-wise pain is decreasing, although last week I had a sharp pain in my groin that woke me in my sleep and since then I’ve felt soreness in my testicles. I contacted my surgeon’s office and they assured me that is nothing to worry about, but it sure doesn’t feel that way to me:eek:. The one thing that I have noticed since the surgery is what feels like a persistent low-grade flu: cold and clammy, dry eyes, excessive thirst, achy joints, but no fever. Again, don’t know if that’s typical either. I guess my reason for this post is that as I’m reading through the other posts on this site I’m becoming increasingly aware that there were a lot of questions that never occured to me to ask and had I been armed with that knowledge beforehand I’d make a different choice.
Also, to be clear, my surgeon never offered a tissue suture option. It was either laparo with mesh, or open incision with regular sutures. The surgeon who performed my procedure was a general surgeon and that’s another element to this situation that has me second-guessing myself: it never occured to me to seek out a hernia surgeon. I assumed that the surgeon my doctor refered me to would be the best choice and now I’m learning after the fact that there are several doctors in my area that do hernias exclusively. -
For sure.
Would I go to the surgeon’s office to obtain a copy of those records? And would I need to ask the surgeon directly, or would their assistant be able to obtain the records? Also, is that a common request to make?