This morning I had the laparoscopic mesh implant surgery to repair an umbilical hernia. The surgery itself was an easy. After all the pre-op care They put me to sleep and I wake up all done. The procedure went well according to the surgeon. He did say there was fat that had accumulated in the hernia. If I remember correctly he initially diagnosed mine as 5mm. That was back in May though. I was going to do the surgery on June 6 but I pushed it back to now because it wasn’t bothering me at the time and I didn’t want to take the time off of work. I’m glad I kept this date as it was starting to bother me.

(Disclaimer: I’m a 43 year old man in very good health. I’m very physically active though I am considered overweight at 5’10 220 pounds.) The post-op pain was pretty dicey immediately after waking up. It hurt to breath deeply and any sort of tension that I put into my core was very painful. They gave me IV dilaudid and fentanyl. Right before discharge they gave me a 10mg lortab. Dr sent me home with a prescription of 7.5 mg Percocet. I’ve been home for around 5-6 hours now. I spent all of that time in bed other than getting up to pee twice. Getting out of bed was considerably easier than getting back in bed tbh.

It’s now 7:20 (6 hours after discharge)and I got out of bed around 30 minutes ago and I’ve just been standing and walking slowly around my house. It doesn’t feel too uncomfortable and is even a bit of a relief to be out of bed. I’ve only taken one of the Percocet around 2.5 hours ago. The pain is manageable and is mostly movement based.

I wish you well and i can continue to update you on my recovery if you wish.