Hernia Rehab Snapshot

About Hernias

This site will give you ideas and reports from a variety of patients about what to expect after your hernia operation and how to prepare. None of this should substitute for your doctor's medical advice. However, there are different positions among the medical community, and different hernia surgery techniques in practice. More...

How to Use the Reports in this Site

One of the focuses of this site's rehabilitation reports is for sports, athletics, and fitness. Hopefully, many of your "how long until ..." questions can be answered. And it is our goal to have answers for a wide variety of your questions that arise. And also that you feel free to add to the body of knowledge here to assist future readers.

Remember the Risks of Waiting

If you have an inguinal hernia, yes there is some advantage to waiting around, but there is also a risk. Your hernia could deteriorate into something requiring urgent attention. Specifically, it could strangulate, which puts your body's food supply (intestinal system) at risk and is an emergency. Enough patients and doctors have made mention of this risk, and their own experiences, that it must not be ignored. Especially if other things you do (weight lifting, for one) put stress on the already injured hernia area.

What's New

• Leo's return to cycling after a hernia surgery, with several fitness details. The exercise recovery table in this report is quite detailed - a lot of data points for your reference.
• Laparoscopic surgery recovery reported by Daniel here. His was also a bilateral surgery (right and left at once). Another bilateral surgery reported by Oz, who is happy to have taken 6 weeks off from weight training...
• Tom spells out the bitter road to his return to Triathlons in this recently added report.
• Helena has eased her pain related to possible C-section damage in her report of hernia recovery.
• Trevor provides some detailed checklists of the before-, during-, and after-surgery processes, including some good tips.