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Hernia Repair , Anyone Had One?

WEASEL-88WEASEL-88 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
Due to operations I had 3 years ago I got a hernia in the gut above the waist. I had a operation to repair it 2 months ago, well it's back. Is this common or should I find another Doctor?

Too Old To Fight,Too Lazy To Run!
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  • drawndrawn Member Posts: 544 ✭
    edited November -1
    Find a new Doc Had mine in 1968 been fine ever since, My son had his in 1987 much smaller scar only 1 stitch and he's fine too. There are quite a few different types maybe you have a stubburn one.
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  • duckhunterduckhunter Member Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    HAVE YOUR DOC PUT IN A ZIPPER. MY REPAIR HAS LASTED OVER 30 YEARS.
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  • Miss. CreantMiss. Creant Member Posts: 300 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have the same problem you do. I have a large scar and I keep getting hernia's on it. They fill me up with mesh to fix them and they are usually back in a year or less. I have two big ones on the scar now. I will live with it until they start to bother me and then go in and get them fixed.

    Last few times after the repairs I did ZERO lifting. I went beyond what the docs told me to do and they still come back. I guess for some people the mesh just will not cut it.

    Course my scar goes from the pubic hair to just above my sternum.
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had 2 when i was under the age of 7, havent had a problem since, can be painfull an plan on a couple of days off work, then depending on what you do lite duty.
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  • WEASEL-88WEASEL-88 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They used a piece of mesh about 8x10 the last time, maybe this time I can talk them in using chicken wire!

    Too Old To Fight,Too Lazy To Run!
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got mine about 3 years ago.Had surgery just below navel,and woke up while they were stiching me up.Damn that hurt.Had to stay off work for a month.Had light duty for 3 months.The worst part was my manager ragging on me about it.I use to do a lot of heavy lifting.No more i have the young people do it for me.Takes 2 guys to do what i use to do by myself.Now my back is gone too.Thats what i get for being a showoff.
    Constant pain in Washington,
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Follow doctors orders exactly. Do not lift, do not stress yourself. Quit your job if need be. It took many years but my father died from complications from a hernia that kept coming back. After so many surgeries there is nothing that can be done.
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    My father had one about 2 years ago,has had no problems. He was 70 years old. It did slow him down,took about 6 months to truly get over it.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Inguinal hernia "scoped" on a Friday in '94. Was back to work on Monday. "No brag. Just fact." Haven't had a problem with it since and I lift some pretty heavy stuff. Sometimes up to 25 lbs.

    Mudge the healed

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Whatever you do, don't get your operation done at Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon, Wa.

    A guy I worked with for 12 years went into the hospital last year for some routine hernia surgery and died. Turns out he had a heart problem that nobody knew about and the operation killed him. Word is that he'd be alive today if the hospital had just done some basic tests to determine his fitness for the surgery.

    I wouldn't let those quacks put a bandage on my dog's *.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Find a different Doc. It took 3 different times to get it right. The third Doc took out all the old scar tissue stretched the skin and sewed it up. I have no Belly button now, (I do not miss the old lint collector anyway) but have not had a return in over 15 years. I still do some fairly heavy lifting. He told me that with mesh, they would have to leave a vent hole in the bottom corners of the incision, because you could have a fluid draining out of it forever. Anyone know if that is true?

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • WEASEL-88WEASEL-88 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for everyones help, I go to the Doctor tomorrow will post the outcome tomorrow night. The problem I have is I have a very weak heart, I don't want to be put to sleep too many times.
    I had a vent hole with a tube, Dr removed after 1 week
    Don't have to worry about that hospital in WA, I'm in KY

    Too Old To Fight,Too Lazy To Run!

    Edited by - WEASEL-88 on 04/28/2002 05:52:01
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