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egallows
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Umbilical Hernia recovery?
egallows
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Has anyone had one and recovered? Or had one surgically fixed? I developed one during my 4th pregnancy (2nd & 3rd living babies), and I'm now on pregnancy #12(7th living baby). It's grown, it's now about the size of a silver dollar, and during a previous pregnancy, I was told the painful pocket above it was a pocket of necrotising fat. Gross. And ouch. The VA has finally approved me to have it fixed sometime after I deliver this baby (due 10/2). Does anyone have any experience healing from one of these? I'm paranoid they'll stick mesh in there and screw my abs up permanently, but from my last consult, it sounds like it's still possible to just close it with stitches. Would it better my chances to try and tone my abs a little prior to surgery? I've gotten it to close up a bit on my own that way before. I'm not a fan of surgery of any kind, so maybe I'm just showing my cowardliness, but I need my abs! (Duh.) I'm a firefighter by profession and obviously lifting lots of heavy objects is par for the course. Thanks to anyone with advice, or even just not smacking me for being a huge baby about this, lol.
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Re: Umbilical Hernia recovery?
It's a hernia - it's not going to close on its own if it's already herniated. Get the surgery done ASAP after you deliver because you'll be down for L&D and adding a few more weeks on to that is not going to be the end of the world if you have it done PP (had you had a c/s it'd REALLY be NBD to have them fix it while they're there!).
I have a severe diastasis recti and am kicking myself for not having it fixed when DS was super little because I was a chicken about the surgery - now here I am 3 years later, it's still not fixed, and I'm still out of competitive lifting because of it. Get the darn thing fixed - you'll thank yourself years down the road and wonder why you waited so long!!! For me, the least offensive option is to have a plastic surgeon do the work instead of having to deal with mesh, but if it became a full herniation it'd be a completely different surgery and laproscopic which I'm not a fan of the patchwork idea, but if you get it done right away, it'll be less of a disruption for returning to work than if you wait and have it done down the road when the issue will likely be a bigger one (you're already symptomatic - get it fixed!!!)..