Inguinal Hernia Mesh Repair Pain

Hello ross79, welcome to Connect. Thank you for sharing your personal frustrations and complications regarding your hernia repair and mesh as that must not have been easy. I have included a few discussions you may want to read through for other Connect members experiencing similar things to yourself.

- Chronic inguinal pain http://mayocl.in/2dHb0QT
- Inguinal hernia surgery http://mayocl.in/2ePIH5A

I would also like you to meet @aliciadayan8, @ando, @johnpais1, and @timfitz who have all discussed hernias, pain, and procedures. They may be able to provide you with some insight on your questions.

@ross79, have your physicians in the Chicago area suggested a second opinion? Is traveling an option, or are you looking for members to suggest specialists close to the Chicago area?

So far, I've found two doctors that remove mesh with vast experience, Dr. Kevin Perterson Las Vegas and Dr. David Grischkan, Beachwood, OH. Neither have a relationship with Medicare.

The mesh is attacking my nervous system in my hip and leg area and has caused arthritis. The sooner it is removed the better. I have one of the simpler devices: UltraPro by Johnson&Johnson's Ethicon. Ethicon hides their MSDS from doctors who are not aware that Polypropylene is "not to be used inside the Human body". There are thousands of law suits ongoing against the manufacturers of these tragic money making companies.

My question to you Justin is simply, do you do removal and have you been able to avoid damage to other organs, testis and nerves, avoiding big scar tissue formations and "getting all the mesh out"? Do you take Medicare? What are the charges to me after Medicare?

Desarda at Ft.Meyers Florida. Dr. Peterson in Las Vegas, Dr.Raz at UCLA. I am in the same boat and I been bounced back and forth with doctors at Hopkins. I will probably have to go to Florida to have the Mesh removed. There aren't a lot of doctors specializing in Mesh removal or repair. I have been through hell with this and there aren't to many caring doctors on the planet anymore. Good luck!

There is a surgical clinic in Beverly hills, Calif. that specializes in repairs and removal of inguinal mesh, etc. but I am sure you will pay top dollar. You know how it goes, money first then the well being of the patient.

I had three hernia surgeries after I found out they weren't holding because the hospital had used RECALLED m

I had three hernia surgeries after I found out they weren't holding because the hospital had used RECALLED mesh that they didn't give back. And now my belly button is disfigured and I still have an 6 inch by 12 inch piece of mesh in me, last problem was in 2015, but I always worry that there will be future problems. I would highly recommend u get you post operative reports from the the hospital and find out what company it was from and see if it was RECALLED. Good luck!!! If u find anything contact a lawyer immediately! Good luck!!

I appreciate all the conversations with regards to mesh complications and removal. I too am dealing with lots of pain and frustration but can't find a comfortable option. I am 68 years old and had an inguinal hernia operation a year ago in India where my wife and I were visiting. All felt fine for 9 months and then intense pain when walking and feelings of heat and sharp razor like pains. Now I can hardly walk and a new hernia is popping out. I have read lots of problems as well with the mesh and that there is a Deserdia hernia clinic in India that uses natural tissue not tension hernia repairs. However in my situation because of my age and large size hernia, it might be dangerous to take out the present mesh and replace it. Also the cost is $5000. I have been warned that there could be complications such as the removal of testicles and also injury to the Cremaster muscle. I would look forward to any discussion and hopeful solutions to my present misery.

Hey Ross, did you ever get your mesh removed? I have the exact same problem. It has been 6 years. I am looking for someone to remove mine. Thank you, Barry

Ross79, https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/procedures/neuromas-and-complex-regional-pain-syndrome
is a link with info to traumatic neuroma formation, which sometimes happens when nerves are cut during surgery. Can be extremely painful and, in my experience, ignored by 23 physicians until I found a plastic surgeon who identified and removed THREE of them. Good luck

Hello Ross and every guys who responded to his problem.
The Mayoclinic communication director Colleen Younge has advised me to contact this group in hope to get the answer for myself.
I am woman 83. Canadian.
Facing the inguinal hernia surgery.
The surgeon states -the laparoscopy with mesh under general anaesthesia.
In the 2 method of surgeries , I have read in the searches reports ,
each have some pros and cons.
I have feeling that the open surgery can give better result, though it might be more pain and longer recovery .
Two issues that concern me the most is general anaesthesia versus local in open surgery.
(After my breast cancer lumpectomy surgery a general anesthesia affected my heart arrhythmia and the heart rate, that
was difficult to stabilize.)
Now I am reading the mesh’s insertion has the draw back, though it’s promoting as a reliable repair with faster recovery and less re-operative cases.
My questions to you are: why didn’t you do open surgery without mesh ? Was it offered to you?
We have Shouldice hospital, that is doing open hernia surgery without mesh and under local anesthesia .
it’s longer recovery. and perhaps others draw back that isn’t widely pronounced . Hard to trust doctors these days !!
How are you all these days?
Best of all.
Thank you