Postby CRguy » Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:14 pm
Symptoms can include : pain, bulging/swelling, comes and goes (reducible hernia), stable or getting larger ( NON reducible ), feeling sick, GIT issues.....and a number of other things....call the doc and get checked out is the best advice. Hernias can occur in many places for many reasons but the surgical ones will usually be related to a prior incision site which may include an "internal" incision and not always necessarily exactly where the skin scar is located.
My surgeon told me that the ileostomy incision I had was actually more prone to herniation than even the midline resection one
( everyone's own docs can comment on the extent of individual incisions...'cos one size does NOT fit all ! )
I wore a binder for both, no heavy lifting for 6 weeks, and went to a registered physiotherapist post-op both times to rehab the lower back, core and abs before getting really aggressively active again ( 2 hour karate workouts 3x per week ).
Sometimes it is very annoying that the docs don't give you more of a heads up..... which is why I love THIS forum !!!!
Cheers and best wishes all
CRguy
Caregiver x 4
Stage IV A rectal cancer/lung met
17 Year survivor
my life is an ongoing totally randomized UNcontrolled experiment with N=1 !
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