Hello, I am a 27 year old male and I had a laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair with the mesh about 6 months ago in my groin area. Before my surgery I was a gym rat, I would go at least five days a week. My main concern after my surgery was when I could lift weights again. I started going back to the gym after 8 weeks, very light, I’m talking 5 pound dumbbells. I gradually started lifting more and being able to do more. At about 4 months after my surgery I was feeling pretty good, so I started going a bit heavier, still staying at 12 reps though. I also started going more often, instead of three or four times a week like I was doing I started going more like five or six. I over did it! I was very sore right over where my hernia repair is. It was like a dull constant pain. I thought that I redid my hernia, so I went to the specialist who did my surgery and luckily I did not redue my hernia. The doctor seems not to know why I am getting sore. He then told me to take a week off, and when I go back to the gym only go 3 days a week and to take an easy. At 6 months I'm still going very light, only 3 days a week and once or twice a week go for a super light jog. I'm still getting sore where my hernia repair is, but the weird thing is that after my workouts and my light jogs I usually feel pretty good? Will this soreness ever go away? Hopefully the doctor was correct and I did not redue my hernia, but then why am I getting sore like this? Should I stop all together going to the gym? I’ve spoke to a lot of people, some say don’t work out for like 6 months and others say that working out should be helping me? I also started stretching every day, is this good for me and is every day to much even for stretching? Also, it doesn't hurt when I sneeze, but it does hurt sometimes if I walk a lot, laugh a lot or even talk loud? My last question is should I be icing the hernia site or be putting a warm compressor on it or should I be doing both? Please help me?? And thank you so much for taking the time to get back to me.