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Message: [QUOTE="prankster, post: 3244382, member: 14"] Had a mesh implant about 2 years ago: 1. Leave the initial dressing on for as long as you dare. I took mine off as quickly as the release instructions said I could. It was an exquisite pain that I had never experienced before as the adhesive used on the bandage was particularly formidable. I believe it is used in industrial applications, such as gluing exploded locomotives back together. To suggest that it resisted removal would be an understatement. Additionally, there was, as I came to appreciate soon afterward, a high degree of support, in the area of the mesh, that was provided by the initial dressing, which, once removed, permitted a 10 fold (approximate) increase in pain in discomfort. 2. For the first 4 or 5 days, DO NOT SNEEZE! You will be immediately incapacitated by the pain. And in no way will you feel that the induced pain will have subsided in anything like a reasonable time frame. [/QUOTE]