hernia and stoma revision

Rant away...You deserve it...
Well it is not such bad news, the hernia can always be done through laporoscopy but I know nothing about the stoma revision....just follow your gut too and tell yourself that you will know when you are ready....
Hang in there, I understand the disappointment but once we start on this slippery slope we never know where it will end (or when!)...
Sharo

Sharon knows a whole lot more about surgeries than I. However, back in 2006, my surgeon, Dr Vincent Fazio, said that my hernia, resting sort of above my k-pouch, could not be corrected laproscopically. He did the repair using a tennis racket incision around my k-pouch stoma and it has held. After surgery, he described my hernia as "three finger" -- I guess referring to its length.

I suppose there are exceptions depending on the individual and previous surgeries. (During the same surgery, another surgeon, Dr. Walsh, removed my gall bladder laproroscopally.)

Lynne,
My k pouch surgeon said that it was impossible too but after he operated side by side with my French surgeon, the French guy, Dr B, got some ideas and innovated...he really had to invent something that would work without having to open me up again (we were on 7 or 8 over 1-2yrs)...so he decided to cut the mesh like a wide doughnut with a bite taken out of the side...he then placed the mesh all the way around the stoma and overlapped the ends to create a wide collar (or necklace) around the stoma..that shored up the peristomal hernia very well and so far, so good...after 4 open sugeries to repair it and the damage that it caused to the stoma/valve each time this was the only viable surgical technique that worked...
I still applaude the man for taking a risk, considering that he had never even heard of the k pouch 1 yr previously...
If for any reason your surgeon wants the operative reports I can ask for them...
By the way, it prevented me from needing more valve/stoma surgery too..
Sharon