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Next week I go under the knife for a complicated umbilical hernia.
It was probably started from a laproscopic splenectomy operation in 1997 when they went through the belly button but it was dormant for years. 2-3 years ago I had some abdominal swelling from the belly button down that got bigger and bigger. All my docs said to just lose weight. But a CT scan showed the hernia was opening up. As I had no pain or other problems, the docs put me on a very restricted diet to improve the odds on the operation success.
Over 7 months I've lost 85 pounds while the abdomen continued to get bigger. So now it's gotta get fixed and I'll have both a hernia surgeon work on me, and a plastics doctor doing something like a tummy tuck for the stretched abdomen and lost weight. Stitches galore they warn me...and with 'old age' setting in...the recovery might take 6-8 weeks.
I didn't realize that hernia operations are so common, but I'm still apprehensive about it. We have a famous hernia hospital here in Toronto (Shouldice) but they won't take you if you're more than 15 lbs overweight. But they don't do plastics there and I didn't want two operations.
If you had or know someone that had this, perhaps you could give me some insight to what lies ahead?
Brian
It was probably started from a laproscopic splenectomy operation in 1997 when they went through the belly button but it was dormant for years. 2-3 years ago I had some abdominal swelling from the belly button down that got bigger and bigger. All my docs said to just lose weight. But a CT scan showed the hernia was opening up. As I had no pain or other problems, the docs put me on a very restricted diet to improve the odds on the operation success.
Over 7 months I've lost 85 pounds while the abdomen continued to get bigger. So now it's gotta get fixed and I'll have both a hernia surgeon work on me, and a plastics doctor doing something like a tummy tuck for the stretched abdomen and lost weight. Stitches galore they warn me...and with 'old age' setting in...the recovery might take 6-8 weeks.
I didn't realize that hernia operations are so common, but I'm still apprehensive about it. We have a famous hernia hospital here in Toronto (Shouldice) but they won't take you if you're more than 15 lbs overweight. But they don't do plastics there and I didn't want two operations.
If you had or know someone that had this, perhaps you could give me some insight to what lies ahead?
Brian