My husband had surgery in June for 3 inguinal hernia's in his stomach. It's his second surgery in roughly 5 years (the first time he had 5 and the doctor did not fix them right). He did everything the doctor told him, and recovered pretty well. Recently though his stomach has expanded, it's not so much as a buldge, but almost looks like he's pregnant (that's the best way I can describe it). We thought the hernia was back, but when he went to the doctor they told him they didn't think it was back, but that the mesh had pushed his bowels outside of the mesh and that was what was causing the protrusion. They scheduled him for a cat scan to take a look. My question is, has this ever happened to anyone, or has anyone heard about this happening? Is it normal? Is it dangerous?

My husband owns his own business and had to practically be forced to have the surgery this last time (since he had to take 6-8 weeks off work) and is going to go kicking and screaming if he has to do it again. I've read on some of these posts about acupuncture and vitamins and exercise. Since this is a slightly different issue than the actual hernia, does anyone think those options could work in this case?