UK-Muscle Body Building Community - Bodybuilding Forum - View Single Post

**Robsta** · 03-07-2008, 03:20 PM

I had a hernia op last november and was off work for 6 weeks. Mine was just above the belly button though, not near the nuts.
Theyt opened me up, reinforced the whole of my ab area with gauze, then stapled it in place and stitched me up. Been left with a huge scar down my stomach and the recovery was awful.
I couldn't move for a week and then it was so painful, when I went home after 4 days in hozzie, I was couched for 3 weeks.
The morphine was cool though......
I didn't train for 8 weeks and went back straight heavy training, as my surgeon said i should be ok.
It wa fcukin' painful though. The worst bit was I couldn't p1ss as my stomach/bladder muscles wouldn't work as they'd been moved about so I was dying for a slash for a week and unable to go apart from a few drips at a time. And then I'd be stood over the bog for an hour just for a little squirt to come out.

03-07-2008, 03:20 PM	#5 (permalink)
Robsta UK-Muscle Moderator Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: In The Shire Posts: 10,536	Re: Time out after hernia operation. I had a hernia op last november and was off work for 6 weeks. Mine was just above the belly button though, not near the nuts. Theyt opened me up, reinforced the whole of my ab area with gauze, then stapled it in place and stitched me up. Been left with a huge scar down my stomach and the recovery was awful. I couldn't move for a week and then it was so painful, when I went home after 4 days in hozzie, I was couched for 3 weeks. The morphine was cool though...... I didn't train for 8 weeks and went back straight heavy training, as my surgeon said i should be ok. It wa fcukin' painful though. The worst bit was I couldn't p1ss as my stomach/bladder muscles wouldn't work as they'd been moved about so I was dying for a slash for a week and unable to go apart from a few drips at a time. And then I'd be stood over the bog for an hour just for a little squirt to come out.