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Hurts like a SOB.


Those that have had the surgery, how long afterwards till you were good to go?

I “had” to be GTG three days after surgery due to a major ice storm that took out power and a number of trees around my driveway. Running the chainsaw sucked, but there wasn’t much choice at the time.

I went back to work after a week........that was also a mistake given where a gun belt rides relative to the healing incision.

Take it slowly, you’re retired!

I had a double I didn't even realize I had other then some slight pain from time to time. 2 weeks before I went back to work, Dr wrote me out for 3 and about 2 months to be relatively comfortable. I had conventional surgery with mesh . Dr at the time would do either way but said it was a more successful outcome just cutting it.

Hunting season starts on the 3rd, I'll get the wife to lift the deer into the UTV..

You hurting before or after surgery?

Does it have a “roll cage”?

Rope up over the top, back to the winch on the front.............reel it right into the body (I’m thinking Gator style)!

No lifting 😀

Had mine fixed this spring. Was off work a week and on light lifting for a month. It seems like it took a couple of months for the tightness to go away. No big deal if you do like the doc tells you.

No surgery yet. Been a pain for the past month, but came on stronger the last few days. Surgeon appointment is coming up in a few days.

It's the nut pain that is a real pain.

I had one repaired, it was done laparoscopically and I don't remeber much pain at all. Then again, mine didn't hurt before the surgery, sounds like mine wasn't as serious as yours.

If you are hurting worse, you probably ought to go in now.

A hernia can cause strangulation of the intestine. It cuts the bloodflow off yo that part of the intestine, and it dies. Then the surgeon guts you, and inspects the rest of your intestines after cutting about 3-4 feet out in the dead area.

You don't want that.

You sure don't want the intestine rupturing either. They gut you completely and wash and clean all your intestines and clean you out inside, and put things back as best they can, and sew you up...

You don't want that either.

This is right on!

I had a repair 20 years ago.
The DR. did not use mesh, he used muscle, pulled over the repair.
Never an issue.
It will take several weeks to be able to do most things.
Do not neglect the laxative recommendations.
Follow the Dr instructions.
Straining is a bad thing.

+1, could make you deathly ill.

Good God! Don't sugar coat it, tell us how it really is!

i've had two inguinal and one abdominal. the first one i was born with and got fixed when i was a baby. the 2nd was when i was 20. that one was not bad. open incision and internal stitches with medical tape outside. i was sore for a week or so if i remember but it wasn't too bad. by far the worst was the abdominal. it was laproscopic and they poked 11 holes in me fixing that one. i was fuggen sore as hell for a while. but i didn't do any pain killers after the first day because they caused constipation which is not something you want to have when you have abdominal surgery.

i'd give it a day or so and then it will be just sore.

Had 2 repaired. Don’t be trick fuucckin for a month or so. Standard is taking it easy for 6 weeks which is what most employers recognize as the acceptable time frame.

One piece of advice:
Get it done.

Well they did an ultra sound on it today and they didn't seem overly concerned that I'm going to die in the next 24 hours.

It's not a constant thing, just when you do something wrong. A very pin point stinging pain

1. It won’t get any better
2. You ain’t getting any younger

Oh, trust me, I'm getting the surgery the soonest they can schedule it.

Well done and trust this, post operative, you’ve had hangovers worse than that. Laying around ain’t fun but it’s necessary. Do that,too.