re: Inguinal Hernia surgery...how bad is it?

Same situation, going in on 18th. I was advised to get on miralax a couple days prior to make stool passage easier.

The surgery is nothing. Don’t even waste time worrying about it. The first few days after will suck because of the gas they pump into you. There might be some soreness but not much more. Just take it easy for 6 weeks.

Having gone through it and a broken ankle requiring surgery, I much prefer the hernia surgery.

It's like filling a cavity for a dentist.

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Same situation, going in on 18th. I was advised to get on miralax a couple days prior to make stool passage easier.

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Yeah this sounds like a good idea

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I was advised to get on miralax a couple days prior to make stool passage easier.

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Yep, I had the same instructions. The Miralax is supposed not help you not strain as much. And it works. But wiping your butt and getting on/off the crapper was a challenge the first few days.

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No ball cutting involved in hernia repair

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They make an incision from your belly button and go in from there. You could drive home after but I doubt they let you.

Had surgery back in the late 90's for one. He cut me right where the leg meets the torso but on the ball side. Put a mesh in, took about 40 minutes with 1/2 that waiting on anesthesia. Next two days pretty tough, even just to sit up. Day three on my feet, and out the door. Six years later the hernia broke thru the mesh, had to have emergency surgery. Did the laproscopey thing this time and was on my feet the next day.

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Palantir

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Not too bad, man. At all. Hurts to laugh, and you'll wanna eat easy to digest stuff. I wouldn't recommend beef jerky and stuff that'll plug you up. Eat light meals / soups / greens etc.

You'll be fine, man. Don't sweat it. We live in 2022. One area of medical efforts I WILL still praise is anesthetics and pain killers. For surgeries that aren't super invasive, we got it easy these days.

I'd tell you good luck, but you won't need it. It will just feel suuuuper sore and tender. Not a lot of real pain if you stay still.

Load up on audio books and shite like that, or td.com :)

Nothing to be afraid of. I had a little, tiny incision that now looks like a tiny dot. Day 2 and 3 were painful but not awful. Vicodin helped. Miralax helped keep things moving. One thing they did not prepare me for is the weird internal itching feeling as the tissue grows over the mesh. Took about a month or two for it to stop.

I had the surgery several decades ago, the old style surgery with stitches. I was dreading the first crap afterwards, but they gave me Fleet laxative. Appropriate brand name, you have to be fleet getting to the toilet or else you'll shite the floor. No resistance at all, like pissing out your arse (which I was thankful for). One of the worst parts of the experience was I couldn't take a leak following the surgery (even after drinking coke and tea till my eyes were floating). That sometimes happens after anesthesia, so I had to be cathetered once. The first week following surgery I walked hunched over like an old man because it pulled the stitches and hurt to straighten up. After that it was all down hill.