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What is the recovery for lapriscopic umbilical hernia repair. how long are you swollen from gas. recovery restrictions?

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Depends : most surgeons agree that maximum strength of your repair reached in 6 weeks. Some surgeons allow laparoscopic repairs to lift normally right away,but limited data to support this. I say wait 6 weeks for heavy lifting otherwise no restrictions to reduce recurrence risk. If gas bloat caused by surgical induced CO2 it will be gone in 72 hours

Answered 9/26/2018

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