Posted by David on January 6, 2009, 4:55 pm
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Hernia surgery done in July 2007. Recurrent incisional reparied with Alloderm mesh. No complication as of 4 month-followup.
Lately bulges have started developing nearby (but not at the repair site).
The doctors say the surgery seems solid after over a year, and it's one of two things:
1) The hernia is still there (it never truly goes away, it's just held in place with mesh & scar tissue) and contents are pushing through a newfound weak area but they're not getting into the hernia sac. Like a patched tire, the hole never goes away it's just sealed up.
2) It's bulging from the stretching of the mesh and the buildup of scar tissue & seroma and god knows what else, and said something about brown fat and not enough room inside the abdomen for all that stuff.
It was a complicated but successful repair without tension so there' obviously stuff going on that I don't understand.
Which explanation do you think is right, and
will losing weight help reduce that bulging? It comes more after large meals so I assume there's too much stuff and fat pushing out on it.
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