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Inguinal hernia – pls help with advice
Hi Norton,
I will start out with my standard recommendation and that is to read the book Unaccountable before proceeding, unless it is life threatening.
My history is long but I asked all of the right questions and got all of the right answers only to find after my surgery that my expert who had done well of 1,000 open surgeries with excellent outcomes had done none in the previous 18 months and the hospital itself had 25 to 30 percent 1 year post surgery pain issue. So be VERY CAREFUL.
The surgeon and their knowledge and experience are crucial. If the surgeon does open with mesh all of the time like Dr Goodyear that would be the surgery I would go with with Dr Goodyear.
It is very hard to find a pure tissue surgeon in the US, it seems to require more skill and time to perform.
The question I ask would I chance a smaller figure for a reoccurrence maybe in my lifetime or a higher chance for a lifetime of pain with mesh? Looking back I would have gone with a pure tissue surgery if I could go to a specialist but my insurance did not allow me to.