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Originally Posted by vwnate1
FWIW, this is *very* painful too .
I earned to use the upper pads on my fingers, not the tips per se and ever so gently massage then back in .
Failure to do this can lead to a loop sticking out and of course, it doesn't just sit there making you miserable, it often twists and causes a blockage that can kill you .
Also, try to not have a super hot and horny girlfriend who likes to have sex in the car out in the country when you're waiting for surgery .
She refused to take no for an answer and I'm amazed I could still get wood with her bouncing up and down on my lap in the car in the mountains in the snow....
Weird memories to be sure .
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I guess sex in a car is better than no sex, but it's a close call.
Pushing the intestines back in is not fun. Early on as it got worse, a couple of times I'd feel a weird pain down yonder and would discover quite a bit sticking out. A bit shocking.
Lately I gently massage the area quite a bit.
The doctor was reassuring. I had been reading about it and he filled in more detail. He said most of the serious infection/rejection issues were with women who had a large amount of the mesh holding up the bladder to relieve incontinence. He said that the animal tissue mesh is virtually not used anymore, too many incidences of infection. He discussed two approaches, one was a sort of direct cut it open, the other more of an arthoscopic method going down through the naval. Said it is easy to do both sides with the latter. My PCP had said that surgery usually wasn't done w/o symptoms, as is the case on my left side, but the surgeon said the beginning of a tear could be seen and that patching it now was prudent. Sounds good to me.
My reading has it that the mesh has been used for some time now and is generally effective.
Odd and perhaps fortunate coincidence, the CT scan saw a small growth at the point where the input channel joins one of my kidneys. My PCP had told me about it, the surgeon looked at it more closely, he said it was small, was sort of hanging at the junction, looked like it would be easy to remove. Were it larger and in the kidney, might have necessitated removal of kidney. Ulp. Could be lucky it was found now.
We'll see, I go in on the 7th for that.