Herinia

Hello All Congratulations on all your weight loss! Have any of you found out you have a hernia? If so what happen?

Yes Heather, I have a hernia. My surgery was 3/24 and I notice the hernia some time in august. I saw my surgeon in early september and at that time it was about the size of a tennis ball. It has now grown to about the size of a grapefruit. He told me as long as it doesn't bother me (hurt) we are going to just let it alone until about 1 year post op and then do the repair of it and my TT at the same time. He did tell me though, if I started to have any major pain to call him immediately, that it might have intestines trapped in it. It is almost unnoticable when I have an empty stomach or when I am lying down. But when I have eaten or drank anything and I stand up it pooches out very noticably. (But you can't see it with my shirt over it) I have a followup appt in January, at which time he is going to send in the approval paperwork to my insurance, and then we will schedule the surgery.