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The swelling is normal since you had surgery less than 2 weeks ago. It does take time to heal.
Do you have a lot of pain?
Did you have pain when you woke up from the operation (more pain the average person would)? Any pinching, stabbing,grabbing feeling?

Did they use a mesh, if so what type/brand of mesh was used?

thanks for the reply. I'm not in any pain right now. no pinching,stabbing,grabbing feelings. They used mesh but I don't know what kind.

Good to hear you are not in pain.
Keep a close watch on it for the symptoms I mentioned.

If you can find out what type of mesh they used it would be good to know just in case you develop any problems. You can get this information from the hospital or surgical center, when you ask for the records be specific that you need the mesh info, name brand, type of mesh, lot and product numbers.

Keep me posted..

would there be swelling going in front of your pelvic bone that is in the same spot as the hernia was because that's what i'm most worried about. You can can tell there is something there and you feel it move back a forth. Thanks for the help.

I'm not sure if you are feeling the mesh or if it's something else..

When do you return to the doctor?

I can completely understand your worries, giving all the problems with the meshes.

Keep me posted..

i am going to try to see him monday or tuesday. The clinic does thier surgeries on mondays and fridays. There is definitely a bulge there that looks and fells like my hernia did before surgery. I just don't a big lump in my scrotum but everything else feels the same.

Good Luck...let us know what your doctor says.

This could very well be a seroma. I had a TEP procedure done last wednesday and my surgeons were very helpful.

Seromas normally occur 3-5 days after the surgery. It's a fluid that builds up where the hernia used to be. This will take some weeks to subside. An ultrasound will tell immediately if it is the hernia again.

The swelling in the scrotum is normal aswell. Mine is huge at the moment, making me waddle.

These operations do take a long time to fully right themselves. It's more likely to be a seroma than a reoccurance, at least that's true of the UK hospitals. It will take weeks for the swelling and fluid build-up to subside and a couple of months before you are looking and feeling as you did before (minus a hernia or two).

One thing to note is that a study done showed that after a laparoscopic repair using mesh, 35% of patients were diagnosed clinically with a seroma formation. But 100% of the patients were shown to all have a seroma using ultrasound.

So really, according to that study, everyone will have a fluid build-up after a repair which will fill the space up again. So this is something not to worry about!

after my hernia repair.. i notice a small bulge on my left sac.. where my hernia used to be only smaller. after 4 weeks it grew into this hard encapsulated bulge. i have no pain at all. the doctor said it may be hematoma. they aspirated it once and said it will subside in time. im getting worried.. and its all ive been thinking of all day. the bulge is located above my left testes. and its hard as a rock. still no pain. how long does it take to subside and is there a medication i can take for it?