my son had both sides done by Dr. UM about 1 1/2 years ago. his symptom was pain in the testicles. everythiing was fine after surgery after the initial weeks. the pain has returned. is this unusual for Dr UM's work? i emailed her, but we don't know what to do. he was in line for a nice college athletic scholarship.
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my son had both sides done by Dr. UM about 1 1/2 years ago. his symptom was pain in the testicles. everythiing was fine after surgery after the initial weeks. the pain has returned. is this unusual for Dr UM's work? i emailed her, but we don't know what to do. he was in line for a nice college athletic scholarship.
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my son had both sides done by Dr. UM about 1 1/2 years ago. his symptom was pain in the testicles. everythiing was fine after surgery after the initial weeks. the pain has returned. is this unusual for Dr UM's work? i emailed her, but we don't know what to do. he was in line for a nice college athletic scholarship.
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my son had both sides done by Dr. UM about 1 1/2 years ago. his symptom was pain in the testicles. everythiing was fine after surgery after the initial weeks. the pain has returned. is this unusual for Dr UM's work? i emailed her, but we don't know what to do. he was in line for a nice college athletic scholarship.
my son had both sides done by Dr. UM about 1 1/2 years ago. his symptom was pain in the testicles. everythiing was fine after surgery after the initial weeks. the pain has returned. is this unusual for Dr UM's work? i emailed her, but we don't know what to do. he was in line for a nice college athletic scholarship.
my son had both sides done by Dr. UM about 1 1/2 years ago. his symptom was pain in the testicles. everythiing was fine after surgery after the initial weeks. the pain has returned. is this unusual for Dr UM's work? i emailed her, but we don't know what to do. he was in line for a nice college athletic scholarship.
my son had both sides done by Dr. UM about 1 1/2 years ago. his symptom was pain in the testicles. everythiing was fine after surgery after the initial weeks. the pain has returned. is this unusual for Dr UM's work? i emailed her, but we don't know what to do. he was in line for a nice college athletic scholarship.
my son had both sides done by Dr. UM about 1 1/2 years ago. his symptom was pain in the testicles. everythiing was fine after surgery after the initial weeks. the pain has returned. is this unusual for Dr UM's work? i emailed her, but we don't know what to do. he was in line for a nice college athletic scholarship.
fuerza and others,
Everyone reading this forum needs to realize that every "sports hernia" injury is different. I am 4 weeks post op from a BI lateral repair and just ran a 5K race this morning in 25 minutes.
So to everyone out there, the 4-6 week 100% recovery CAN, and does happen! BUT...I had symptoms of this injury for about 12 months...not years and years like some of you guys. I think you MUST take into consideration your age and physical shape when calculating your estimated recovery time. I am 32, 5'8, 145lbs, I run, bike and swim, and stayed in shape the best I could while dealing with the injury for 12 months.
I am very thankful for letsrun.com for keeping this forum up and running. This is what lead me to the right Dr. So my advice to everyone out there seeking a solution is to read every page of this forum and decide what Dr. is best for you, and I know most people can't, but you shouldn't let what your insurance will or wont cover affect your decision on what Dr. to see.
garrett
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Hey Den,
I'm happy that you're doing better. Couple of weeks more and you're going to be 100%. As far as the groin inflammation all the another sufferers that had the surgery have complained about that. As you say it is going to pass. That mesh it has to be incorporated into your body so give it time. As you say the healing process is different from one person to another. I have my eyes done May08 (Lasik) and the healing process for me was 1 year whether for others took only 7-8 months with the same eyes prescription. Same for any injury that is healing. Diet, rehab, life style, job etc you name it. There are so variables that contribute to the healing process. Keep us posted.
I had a bilateral with Brown in Montreal, no mesh. Surgery didn't work. Had a cortisone shot from Dr. Brown to see what that would do - no luck. Flew to Germany seven months ago to have a bilateral SH repair and a mesh removal on one side. That surgery hasn't worked either. I'm in constant pain and my lower abdomen is cut to ribbons. I'm simply a bit lighter in the pocketbook and trying to do what I can to get by physically.
Hi putaway!
Your son must train pevis floor muscle training/exercise after the surgery.
Athletes can in a best way prevent the hernia by training it. They become better in their field, too.
Try 2 - 3 months and se, if I am correct.
//js
Hey Rem,
I already scheduled an appointment with Dr. UM in Nov. I was going to see Dr. Brown only to try to get a diagnostic. I called his office twice up to know and his secretary keeps telling me that she doesn't have his agenda yet. He's going to be in after mid of October and we'll see. Because my pain and discomfort is strictly located around the inguinal canal I do believe that Dr. UM is my answer. It is not covered but for the peace of mind I'll do the financial effort.
Did you rehab properly after the surgery? If yes then how many weeks and what did you do?
Hey putaway,
Give us couple of pieces of info.
- it is the same pain or different pain?
- is the pain returned to both sides and same place?
- what rehab did your son do and for how long? how many weeks before going into full sports activity again?
Not having any medical knowledge seems very difficult for me to understand how can you have the same symptoms after the surgery where the muscles have been reattached to their initial place. Probably lifting a huge amount of weight or doing something very strenuous activity immediately after the surgery you can re-tear but not in the same place. I'm just trying to understand. Another possibility could be something related to a nerve excitation but I know that Dr. UM severs the nerve when necessary.
Hey Garret in Denver,
Drop me an email please at
. I'm also going to Dr. UM in Nov. I'd like to get more details from you about the pre-op, pre-hab, operation and after.
Thank you.
What shocks me the most is that all of you went through months to years without getting it diagnosed. I think the biggest problem was playing through the pain initially until you COULD not play your sport anymore.
I currently have been diagnosde with the SH. It has been about 3 months now and 2 months since I went to physio for my injury. Instead of wasting space and re blabbling my story, go to my livejournal blog (don't worry it's not spam or anything with ads etc).
BTW, I am going through the conservative approach!
What shocks me the most is that all of you went through months to years without getting it diagnosed. I think the biggest problem was playing through the pain initially until you COULD not play your sport anymore.
I currently have been diagnosde with the SH. It has been about 3 months now and 2 months since I went to physio for my injury. Instead of wasting space and re blabbling my story, go to my livejournal blog (don't worry it's not spam or anything with ads etc).
BTW, I am going through the conservative approach!
Interesting story spiday9. Up to a point my story is similar with yours. I went to the PT less than 2 months after the symptoms started. A regular PT and not a PT that knows SH. He gave me core exercises and ultrasound and for a while the pain and other numbness/tenderness have decreased considerably. This for 2 1/2 months when I came across with Mr. Boyles website. Nobody knows to do ART in my area but I found a young PT girl eager to try what is there. There was the mistake because she jumped to fast to the phase 2 of the recovery and she started to do massage directly on the inguinal canal area. Somehow that returned me back in terms of pains so I stopped any PT for another almost 2 months. I'm now 6 months and I restarted to do daily core and stretching by myself and walking when weather allows. I feel much better. I see here two possibilities.
1. Too late to solve it through PT and other conservative measures -> Nov19 see Dr. UM in Munich
2. Try to find a specialized PT in my area (I live about 1 our away from Toronto) and start again the rehab this time with everything included ART, Boyle's rehab on phases etc.
It's a dilemma because if you go to the PT they say we'll try to solve it and if you go the surgeon they say this is the only way. As other users stated key is a time factor here for avoiding further complications.
Your story sounds A LOT like mine. Two months after my initial onset of pain, and about a month after being diagnosed, I too went into physical therapy. I did my exercises everyday and laid off of ANY working out for almost 3 months. Like you, I noticed (at best) a small improvement, but could not do what I wanted to do (sprint, squat heavy weights etc) and I would wake up feeling good some mornings and bad other mornings. Despite not being able to workout and still feeling tenderness when I sneezed and laughed and did any minor movement, I kept with the physio for well longer than I should have; I refused to admit it wasn't working. It was actually my therapist who advised me to see a surgeon after he admitted that my inconsistent results may be a sign that I need a more radical approach.
When I talk with people about this injury, I usually tell them to bypass PT because it does not truly address the problem. The issue with a SH is that, since ligaments and tendons get poor blood flow, the injury is unable to heal on its own. And strengthening the muscles, as physio does, does not re-grow damaged ligament and tendon tissue. And from what I've seen, very few people believe that it works (including my doctor and my surgeon).
Since you say that you believe that your only 1-2 months away from a complete recovery (something I too kept telling myself when I was doing physio), I'd suggest simply speaking with a prolotherapist and letting him or her know about your situation.
I, like you, refused to believe that surgery was the only option, and fully believe that prolo is the only real alternative if not the only real solution to this problem.
WIth prolo, unlike physio or surgery, you actually regrow damaged tissue. In my opinion, I wish I had known about prolo sooner and bypassed physio completely. For me, and a few other people I've spoken with, it can be a waste of time and money.