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Originally Posted by Dueller
Zeke....you had it done twice? Same place? How was the recovery?
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I don't know where your wife's hernia is, but I had an inguinal hernia (men only, I think) first on the right, then 15 years later on the left. The RS was repaired w/o the mesh and I wish the second (LH) was was done the same way. It does take a bigger incision to repair with thread only.
Seems to me recovery was about the same, and it's a b***h. In each case, I was laid out on Vicodin for 5 days, easing up by the 7th. But the surface numbness can go on for months. I'd say that to not think about it took 2 years in each case for a complete healing of the scar and some tenderness. The mesh left a bump and hindered sex for a long time. I've gone back to heavy work in each case within 2 months.
Do a search here on hernias. A couple of us went in about the same time.