[Oceanic]

The horrific testicle pain I was in forced my hand into getting surgery, I thought the pain after the surgery couldn’t be any worse than the pain I was in before, I was wrong however.

First few weeks were hell but I’m completely OK now at nearly 3 months post surgery and no regrets on getting it all fixed.

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You have probably developed a hernia on the left side as well, my surgeon said you do not get referred pain from one side to another, I had very painful right side testicle pain and an obvious bulge, a few weeks later I developed left side testicle pain, after an ultrasound a left side hernia was diagnosed but there was no obvious lump, after they opened me up it turned out to be a direct hernia on both sides.

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Laxatives are your friend after hernia surgery, take them on day 1 post op especially if you are taking opiate based pain meds

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Hi Spinotza I’m glad my thread has helped you, if you are comfortbale laying down that is a good sign according to my surgeon, I was in a lot of discomfort walking any distance and even standing for prolonged periods but it sorted itself out, the first week was the worst and then slowly I could walk further each day and the discomfort diminshed, its still vey early days for you so don’t despair, just give it some time, you will be in a lot better place in a week, then 2 weeks more improvements then a month even more, and the healing will still continue for a year or more, its a marathon not a race recovering form major surgery like this. Stay positive. I’m at about 2.5 months post surgery and still feeling changes happening.

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Dr. Conze is most definitely not mainly academic, he’s on the front line doing hernia tissue repair and does around 500 a year.

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Happy to hear things are still improving for you Watchful, wishing you a speedy and full recovery. I know after having some major surgery on my arm it was still improving even after the 1 year point so stay positive.

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2 Month Update

I’m a few days past the 2 month point now and the improvements still continue, the tightness from the stretching and stitching of muscle is getting noticebaly less. I can barely feel the right side and there’s still a bit of tightness on the left but defintely less than a month ago..

Again it’s not pain just a sensation I can feel, it doesn’t bother me. Even the slight electrical shock feelings from the nerves healing has completely stopped now.

The only slight discomfort is from the actual incisions themsleves as the scars are now fairly hard and will be for quite a few months before the skins softens again. I’ve had surgery before so this is no surprise and to be expected.

Overall I’m very happy with the result as the pain I was in before the surgery was quite unpleasant.

Life is slowly getting back to normal. I picked up a 30kg bag the other day and there was no pain or wierd sensation.

I’ll post again at the 3 month point.

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1 Month Update

Well a bit more time & healing has yielded great results, I can now stand and walk for as long as I like. There is some residual tightness on the left side but to be expected from a double Shouldice procedure, but I’m confident it will loosen as the tissues remodel over the coming months, it may also be from the hardness/inflexibilty of the scars too which I know will also soften with some more time.

I have no pain now so can report this looks like it has been a success hopefully.

I’ll update again in another month.

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Incisions at 3 weeks post surgery, already significantly better

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@watchful

I have sent you a PM rather than take this thread off topic

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Watchful I’m sorry to hear it’s been a rough ride for you, how are you doing now and how far out from surgery are you? Can you walk for a reasonable distance yet?

I was in severe pain walking the first few days but its been calming down more and more, I still odont have unlimited range though and will have to stop due to pain eventually, a few km maybe, I then need to sit down, let the pressure ease off and I can go again for a short distance.

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Hi Watchful, I’ve read from more than one person the tension can take a month or longer more to dissapate. May say muhc betetr at the 6 week point.

The tightness just creates a pulling sensation and it seems to come from the area under the incision where the repair was done and then it extends towards my thigh and down the groin. This only happens when standing and walking and is fairly similar to a few days ago, if I wedge some socks under my testicles to hike them up I can walk a lot more comfortably and for further.

As I’ve said I’m hoping it’s just a case of the muscle/tissue needs to remodel and stretch or that Dr. Conze is right and it will resolve when the swelling subsides, although my right side the swelling has gone down a fair bit but the left side not so much.

The right side does feel a little tight too but it doesnt really cause any discomfort when walking

Did your tension sort itself out or still feeling some tightness?

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Does anyone know what’s considered a normal time frame for tension resolution. My right side feels pretty good already but my left side is a lot tighter by comparison.

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No Chuck the incisions are not gnarly, that’s what surgical incisions look like 5 days after you were opened up like canned goods.

The outer ends are raised because they put drains in to help prevent a seroma. This will flatten and vanish.

The incisions are raised because the suturing has been done so expertly its underneath the skin with disolvabale sutures as I wouldn’t be able to wait in Germany for 2 weeks for Dr. Conze to personally remove the stiches himself which he does with his domestic patients.

The bruising is from all the local anethetic that was injected, looks worse than it feels, the incisions look considerably better now at 14 days.

The incisions are only 5cm long, I don’t care if they are vertical or horizontal. Horizontal will blend better into the natural creases of the skin in that area, the scars will fade to nothing within a year and barely be visable.

Email Dr. Conze and ask him why he does the incisions that way if you really care, maybe it was based on the findings of the examination and ultrasound.

I based my decision to go with Dr. Conze from information on this forum and from reading his Google reviews and on Jameda and then having spoken to him a few times on the phone before flying to Germany for the examination/consultation.

You need to stop with all the hysteria, You are just frightening people reading this forum who are consdiering having this surgery done with all your sweeping generalisations and inaccurate information.

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Charismatic would probably have been a better adjective to use

I’m fairly hairy to be fair, the incisions are 6cm above the base of my Penis if that helps you comprare the location to yours.

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@ Pinto, the left side Hernia I didn’t know about but suspected due to testicle pain on that side, it was found at the consultation the day before the surgery, both with Ultrasound and a physical examination, there was no lump though

@ Watchful, Yes the Dr said he has seen this before. He thinks as soon as the swelling goes down it will resolve, he said 1-4 weeks post surgery should do it, I’m not even at 2 weeks yet. What are your tips if it doesn’t go away? PM me if you like but it may help others who read this thread in years to come if they have the same situation.

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Thanks Jack, there are some understandably very traumatised people on here who skew the reality of getting this surgery, if you find a good hernia specialist the odds of getting an excellent happy result are hugely in your favour.

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Just to clarify my incisions are each 5cm long, not huge at all

The suturing has been done so well by Dr.Conze the scarrring will be minimal, also I don’t care at all about some scars as long as the surgery goes well and fixes the Hernia, I’m too old to care about cosmetics and even in swimwear no one would ever see them, they’ll be faded to nothing in a year anyway.

Chuck you’ve got to calm down the hysteria a bit, the syress of all this is clearly not making you think that logically

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Just to clarify my incisions are each 5cm long, not huge at all

The suturing has been done so well by Dr.Conze the scarrring will be minimal, also I don’t care at all about some scars as long as the surgery goes well and fixes the Hernia, I’m too old to care about cosmetics and even in swimwear no one would ever see them, they’ll be faded to nothing in a year anyway