Double Hernia Op - recovery time/experiences?

[PDP76]

I found that the codeine didn't do a lot, barely touched the pain. The tramadol was excellent for it. If you're off and at home then tramadol might work for you.

Edited by PDP76 on Tuesday 29th September 13:59

[Flip Martian]

PDP76 said:

I found that the codeine didn't do a lot, barely touched the pain. The tramadol was excellent for it. If you're off and at home then tramadol might work for you.

Edited by PDP76 on Tuesday 29th September 13:59

Tramadol is as much a risk with the acid reflux as codeine apparently. And a bad acid reflux attack is the worst pain I ever experienced, so I don't want to risk it unless absolutely necessary (I almost fainted when I broke an ankle and that STILL wasn't as painful). Have taken the rest of this week as a/l anyway, so will keep on with the paracetamol, take things very easy for a few days and keep my fingers crossed.

On the plus side, the hernias seem to be healing up ok and not been too affected by my stupid "running for the train" episode...

[coulsond12]

I had my hernia surgery when I was 50 at Shouldice hospital in Ontario( http://www.shouldice.com/ ). They had a special treatment for hernia removal called as Shouldice repair and it’s considered to be one of the safest hernia surgeries with good success rate. I was impressed with the treatment too. The surgery I had eliminates the complications with repeat hernias and was safe. I don’t even had a feeling that I was having a surgery.

[Flip Martian]

coulsond12 said:

I had my hernia surgery when I was 50 at Shouldice hospital in Ontario( http://www.shouldice.com/ ). They had a special treatment for hernia removal called as Shouldice repair and it’s considered to be one of the safest hernia surgeries with good success rate. I was impressed with the treatment too. The surgery I had eliminates the complications with repeat hernias and was safe. I don’t even had a feeling that I was having a surgery.

Was it a form of mesh repair?

[Flip Martian]

Just came across this so thought I'd update, for anyone else going through it. I was on regular paracetamol every 4 hours for a couple of weeks max for the post op "slapped in the balls with a cricket bat" pain but it eventually subsided after 2 or 3 months. No tightness or discomfort of any kind after 3-4 months so all good. And the glued wound repair seemed to work really well - scarring really quite small and already starting to fade a bit.