Hernia repairs

I am scheduled for a hernia repair and would like to hear from anyone with experience with this. I am interested in what type of repair you had and what to expect after etc. You can e-mail me also. Thanks

Email Andrea Lynn. She has a post about 1/3 of the ways down on here. She has had some hernia repairs and could probably answer all your questions! Just hit email under her post. She's great at explaining things also. Lisa

Hello Sherie, I had a hernia repair but mine was found and done when I had complication from my surgery. Cut I had a Peterson's Hernia and it was done laprascopically. My recovery was about 3 weeks but I had a stricture in my old stomach that needed repaired also. I had tubes and if I knew then what I know now I would have made sure my doc perscribed me muscle relaxers cuz boy!!!! when I had a muscle spasm right there and it was pulling my tube in and my tube had a stich in it boy oh boy did that hurt. So just food for thought no need for pain if you dont need it!!!! NAT

Ok...hernia repairs....what can I say about them??? LOL...I've had 5 hernias since my RNY almost a year ago. The first one was found when at about 6 weeks post op because I had an open wound infection that was an MRSA staph infection. They sent me in for a CT scan to make sure I didn't have an internal infection and that's when they found the big hernia. I was scheduled for surgery 5 days later, but ended up having it on an emergency basis 2 days later because it became incarcerated (blocked). I was in the hospital for 5 days with that one because it was incarcerated and because of the MRSA. I then had home health care for 10 days where they came in and packed the wound and gave me IV antibiotics for the infection. I was out of work from that one for about 4 weeks total. Then a couple of months later I was having pains and stuff again....doc and CT scans said no hernias...they said I had a suture neuroma...basically scar tissue and nerves had wrapped around one of the internal stitches from my hernia repair. I was scheduled for "outpatient" surgery for that...surgery was supposed to be about 20 minutes or so, woke up in recovery and hour and a half later....when he opened me up he found another hernia about the size of an orange. Spent the night in the hospital...home the next day...out for another 3 weeks. In December I really started looking into plastics....got approval for my tummy tuck...had that surgery on January 12th of this year...and when my surgeon had me open for that, he found 3 more hernias and repaired those. That one was the most difficult recovery...the TT and hernias and muscle tightening all together..I thought that was worse than my RNY recovery. After all of those surgeries, I had to wear an abdominal binder for at least 2 weeks..I'd suggest wearing it longer if you can...it helps a lot. With all of my hernia repairs, it was a standard repair without the use of mesh. My doc doesn't really like using mesh unless it's absolutely neccesary because of the high risk of infection and rejection of the mesh. Anyway, sorry this post is so long. Good luck with everything and just let me know if you have any more questions.... Andrea