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Inguinal hernia surgery ruined my life

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adam32807
adam32807

Hi all,

I'm a 35 Yr old male I had open surgery with mesh for a right inguinal hernia in 2010, for the last 3-4years I've been experiencing extreme pain at the site of surgery, in my lower abdomen top of my leg and base of my penis. I've had numerous test and scans carried out and have been diagnosed with with damage to the illoinguinal nerve, ive been told nothing can be done except pain management this obviously makes me angry and upset as it was meant to be a routine surgery and has infact changed my life completely.

For the last 12months I have been suffering a variety of symptoms which I would say wernt related to the surgery yet my GP cannot find anything in any tests so could it be the mesh implanted in me could be causing me further health issues? Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is there any one known to specialise in surgical mesh problems? I've searched the net and can't seem to find anyone please help if you can

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  • GRWriter
    GRWriter adam32807

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    I too suffered unexplainable pain after the same repair. There is an understandable reluctance in the medical fraternity to accept that surgeons have damaged patients - the litigation would be endless.  I have deep massage on the area where the mesh is located to prevent it attaching to anything and I take a low dose of ametryptelene to manage the nerve pain.
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