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Damn Scott, I hope you heal strong.

Don't do something wrong and you'll be all set.

i didn't read the whole thing and realize you are pre-op.

ya, those nut pains are bad. like somebody slowly squeezing your nuts and then all of a sudden clamping down. thats the whatever-that-schit is called lining coming out into your sac along with some intestine maybe. i used to pop mine back in and that was a real treat. i lived like that for 3 or 4 months and then had it fixed. strangulation hernia is not something to fugg with. i'd take it real easy until you get in there.

I'm letting the wife help me pee too, so I don't have to left anything heavy. Still don't feel any bulge.

I think lifting my 70 pound, lame dog the past few days helped to speed things up.

I had inguinal hernia surgery in May 2000. Was out of work three weeks prior to surgery and back to work three weeks after surgery. Don't throw up or sneeze right after surgery....only advice I got!

Good luck, NYH1.

This ^^^ almost did me in trying to wait, if your shiit pops out the hole and swells,,you got biiig problems.

This is the doctor that sent me for my ultra sound today. Ultra sound gal was 23, blonde and cute too. Might have to get these more often.

I've got inguinals on both sides plus an umbillical right now. Was first diagnosed 6 years ago but doc said not to worry about them so long as they weren't bothering me/causing pain. The left one has been hurting now since April. Went in and told the doc I thought it was about time to take care of them back in early Sept.. He agreed and scheduled me for surgery in Dec. as I told him I didn't want to be laid up during hunting season. Doc tells me to expect to be out of work for 3 weeks.

Was up and walking, a little hunched over a few hours after surgery. Upright and self propelled after about 3 days. Your doc will tell you not to lift any heavy weight for 30 days or so.

That will cause a hernia. Bust a nut, too.

I'd go get that stuff stitched back together. There's really no other reasonable option. You can't live your life with your bowels wanting to punch down into your bag.

Surgery of any kind is only mentally disruptive until you're in pre-op and they shoot you in the arm with some Versed and Demerol. It's half over when that happens.

Just make the appointment,...get it done,..and go on about your life.

At most it's going to be a month,...maybe 6 weeks of disruption.

I wrecked my knee a few years ago. I kept putting it off,.....hoping it would get better. It didn't

I spent damn near a half of a year stumbling around when I could have been done with it in 6 weeks.

I've had enough surgeries to not worry about them. Same surgeon cut on my wife last year.

I had to lie to the doc and told her 'I'm a grower not a shower'

Well,....then you know.

Had the surgery in July and took 5 weeks off post surgery. Very physical job and glad I did the 5 weeks. For 10 weeks it felt like a money was hanging on my right nut. Pretty common and some times the doc has to kill a nerve in your sack.

I hurt like hell for 2 weeks. Got a little better everyday after that. By 4 weeks I had no pain. Doc wouldn't let me lift until 5 weeks after surgery. She used the mesh on me also.

I had a double repaired with mesh 10 years ago. At that time the instructions were to not lift more than twenty pounds for 6 weeks. After that if I stretched too far in any direction I got a twinge but as I became more active it faded away.

What bugged me the most right before the surgery was going up stairs. I noticed coming down stairs was comfortable so I tried going up backwards. Made climbing stairs much more comfortable.

The surgeon told me the only people who had trouble with hernia surgery were the eager beavers trying to do too much too soon.

Good luck!

No nookie for at least two weeks after surgery..

Patched up with mesh two years ago this December. Was back at work in two weeks with full duty in four. Most pain right afterwards was from sitting on the throne. You do not want to tear out the mesh before it takes hold, big mess to repair so heed the doctor's orders.

It would be interesting to know how many folks used to die from strangulated hernias before sulfa drugs reduced the chance of infection from surgery in the mid thirties. Man, that would be a miserable way to go.

Well, thank God fer lowyers.

2 days. Not a big deal at all...Godspeed

I went home the same day and was able to slow walk around the block the next day.