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Ah yes, that was the only drawback - especially as they said "don't strain" or else the stitches might break, or the hernia would pop back out again!

I'd have thought so. The pain-killers should do the trick (I felt no pain whatsoever afterwards). Like I said, I literally walked out of hospital pain-free two hours after the op, and was back at work in two days, so two weeks should be plenty of time to recover enough to travel, albeit...

I had hernia surgery 3 years ago, after it had got so bad/big that I ended up in A & E, doubled-up, and begging for morphine, because of the excruciating pain (which came and went, at random, over a couple of years). Was eventually booked-in for keyhole surgery under general anaesthetic, but...