I had a double hernia operation in 2007 at Kaiser Permanenta. Nothing special about it. In and out the same day. Due to eating right and sleeping right and listening what the doc said not to do, I was back to work in one week. Never had any problems since. RecoveryRxx would have been no help. And I never took any pain medications.
No worries I had groin hernia repair with mesh about 5 years ago and used acti patch for about 5 days... I took 1 pill for pain but didn't really need to.... go BIEL