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So like most new guys i am working my way thru thousands of threads. Some you see a connection and i hit this one on hernia . In 2009 i had a big long overdue hernia operation on a baseball sized hernia about 4 oclock to my belly button it was deep and required removing 14 inches of my large intestines and installing a half sheet of mesh recovery was 2 months hospital 5 days it was after this it seems i lost my little friend i read that nerves are cut the mesh is in the mix could i have foundb the begining of ED

Robert51 wrote:So like most new guys i am working my way thru thousands of threads. Some you see a connection and i hit this one on hernia . In 2009 i had a big long overdue hernia operation on a baseball sized hernia about 4 oclock to my belly button it was deep and required removing 14 inches of my large intestines and installing a half sheet of mesh recovery was 2 months hospital 5 days it was after this it seems i lost my little friend i read that nerves are cut the mesh is in the mix could i have foundb the begining of ED

Please create a signature. It makes things much easier to answer your questions without asking a lot of questions. Here's how you do it
Click on your name in the top right corner and select "user control panel"

Then under the big letters "User Control Panel" there is a row of words... select "Profile"

Then down the left had side of the "User Control Panel" select "Edit Signature" (You might have Create Signature or something. I don't know exactly what you'll get because I already have a signature to edit)

Most guys put something like what I have, but you can put whatever you want. Here is mine -
"AMS 700 (18 + 2 rte's). Implanted March 30, 2017 by Dr. Brock of London, Ont, CANADA. Great surgeon. Went in to septic shock and had to have implant removed April 29, 2017. I'm from Belleville, Ontario, CANADA. Appt. for consult for second attempt is on November 6, 2017... I can't wait."

Don't get too carried away with the doctor like his name, address, phone number, etc (anything that looks like advertising for him).. you can certainly say Dr. Jones (great Dr.)

If you need further help, please ask, that's what I'm here for.

Larry
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Robert51 wrote:So like most new guys i am working my way thru thousands of threads. Some you see a connection and i hit this one on hernia . In 2009 i had a big long overdue hernia operation on a baseball sized hernia about 4 oclock to my belly button it was deep and required removing 14 inches of my large intestines and installing a half sheet of mesh recovery was 2 months hospital 5 days it was after this it seems i lost my little friend i read that nerves are cut the mesh is in the mix could i have foundb the begining of ED

Welcome to Frank Talk.

When I had my first uro visit about an implant and he looked at my surgical history he asked about a sigmoid colectomy I had 20 years ago. He wanted to know how soon my ED issues began after that. It was within a few weeks of my recovery from it. He told me the vast majority of men who have the sigmoid colon removed get ED that doesn't respond to treatment. I said I should sue the surgeon for not telling me that as I never even made a connection about the surgery being the reason. The uro told me the statute of limitations was long up. This is why I commented in another thread how doctors are rarely forthcoming about long term implications of procedures they're eager to do on you to pad their income.

Welcome to the forum. I hope you find some useful information here along with the emotional comfort of knowing you're not alone.