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Chronic pain and recurring Hernias
In that case you need to get it fixed. What I do in these cases is a good bilateral laparoscopic repair to make sure there is no recurrence. If that doesn’t fix the pain and nerve blocks don’t work, an open exploration under local anesthesia directed by the patient will sometimes help localize the area of nerve entrapment. It is also possible that your pain is being caused by something else, possibly not amendable to surgical treatment. There are people we can’t fix.