Bill

Any one here have an inguinal hernia surgery relatively recently? How quickly were you back to moving around and cycling? I'm going through this surgery in two weeks. I really want to do be doing things in 4 days or so. And I'd like to be riding soon after that. The doctor says two weeks for riding. I hope he's right.

p2000

I had this 2 years ago. It was about 2 weeks. Just remember it's not so much the riding. Easy spinning came pretty easily right from the start. Just remember it's mounting and dismounting that you'll want to be gentle with. Um....and don't fall. But the more you ride, the faster you heal. At least that's what I believed.

daytonian

had it last december. off bike 2 weeks. eased into riding for another 2. first 4 days will suck, lots of vicodin. it's worth doing.

Enthalpic

I was going easy on the trainer by day 10, by 3 weeks I could go fairly hard.

Of course this will depend on what technique your surgeon uses. I had the TAP procedure; if you have the open repair, your recovery will be much slower. The TEPP technique should in theory yield quick recoveries but iirc it involves a lot of dissection. My surgeon refused to do it saying he found it awkward.

Indyv8a

Open or laproscopic?

I've had both, would have been back up and running quicker with the 'scope, except it was a reoccurrence and I got benched for 6 months.

Pedaleur

Been there, done that (bilateral inguinal). A couple weeks until light spinning.

A word of advice: when the nurse comments that your scars make a "V" (at a U. of Virginia hospital), do _not_ say, under the haze of medication, that you think of it more as an arrow. Trust me on this one.

I also told the latina nurse, who asked me for the seventh time what my surgery would be, that I was having a "bilingual hernia repair". Good times...good times...

atbman

I would imagine that it depends on the size of the hernia. My scar had 13 staples and was 6" long. I was definitely not back on the bike in 2 weeks. Especially after taking the bus into town, going into Waterstones and reaching (comfortably) for a book on the top shelf and then sneezing (utterly unexpectedly). The finger-shaped dents in the shelf are still there.

Once back on I had no troubles, even commuting 22 mpd.

Pablo.

I had that surgery about 2 years ago. I wasn't riding seriously then, but it was about a week before I stopped feeling sore.

Bill

Extremely funny, esp. the binlingual part. What were your hernias trying to communicate? I have a commitment that I need to attend to in four days after the surgery. So I am hoping that I can take care of it. I can wait two weeks to ride--I think!

toothless

Back on the bike in 10 days. Pretty much back to normal in 30.

Three years later it is still sore every once in a while though...