I second this.

I recently underwent general anesthesia for a !triple hernia surgery. Two epigastric and one umbilical, all located within 3 inches of each other in a vertical row on my abdomen. Usually with 1 hernia, they give you local, but in this case the surgeon had to cut away a lot of abdominal wall tissue (to make the three defects into one), then placed a tension free mesh inside my abdominal wall, so he had to put me under as the pain would've been far too much to endure awake.

I was taking hydrocodone+apap up until the week before surgery, 5/500mg 3x per day. I switched to ultram using 4 caps/day and continued up until the night before, and had zero complications with the anesthesia. I did inform the surgeon and anesthesiologist and they both said it wouldn't complicate anything.