Originally Posted by
Ryan Arnold
Yeah my sister had some serious objections when I told her I was going to start lifting. The docs display a completely unnecessary amount of caution in their recommendations probably based on the .00001% chance you hurt something coming back too soon - they might get sued. But I researched this a lot and if the repair fails that means that the surgery was not performed correctly - it doesn't have anything to do with post op activity. Once that mesh is in there its done. One thread a guy talked about how his doc said you can actually lift 3 days after if you want - its just a matter of pain tolerance. Once the repair has been done properly there seems to be almost no chance of tearing/re-occurrence. The mesh needs a little time to acclimate itself to your body but that only takes 3 days.