[philf]

Thank you so much for your reply – that’s really interesting – wasn’t aware of these types of repair but it does make sense given the circumstances. The thing is, non of the other doctors mentioned temporary, they were all like ‘6 weeks and you will be back to normal’, so I’m wondering if he mis-spoke or maybe presumed that a non-mesh repair wasn’t a ‘real’ repair – I will need to ask the surgeon if this is the case.

8 weeks on and I’m still in quite a bit of discomfort when i walk – it seemed to be fine after 6 weeks, was walking pretty normally. I’ve started wearing a jock strap and this feels like it may be helping, so I’m not sure why I regressed – is this normal?