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Paul,
I had DaVinci surgery in July of 2007 and in November of the same year had the inguinal hernia appear. In my case I had some prior indications of a possible hernia problem and I even asked the DaVinci surgeon to take a close look in that specific area to see if anything was amiss. But he found nothing. In December 07 I had the hernia surgery which involves planting a mesh in the area. All has been fine since.
I know there are other stories on this site where the prostate surgeon did repair a hernia along with his prostate removal main event.
Interesting, I had an inguinal hernia repaired at the same time as my Robotic surgery as well. I had a previous inguinal hernia repaired about 8 years ago. I can still "feel" pressure there when I lift something heavy.
Mike C
Well, you live and learn. I must confess to not being fully aware of the comparatively high incidence of inguinal hernia after surgery until this thread started.
Seems Ted’s doc may be a little high in his estimates, but it is a pretty common event. There’s some interesting material here INGUINAL HERNIA AND PROSTATECTOMY
Incidentally, this site of A.Black's is an excellent one for all manner of information. Well worth expoloring
