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future of inguinal repair and PT
I was really hoping for better results. I am feeling incredibly depressed. I am just shy of one year now from when I had my surgery and things are markedly worse than before the surgery. I have been to many doctors and health care professionals in different disciplines and there is nothing they can do. I have grown tired of the blank looks and the mystified responses. I don’t trust doctors any more.
I opted for having my inguinal hernia repaired for ‘quality of life’ reasons and now I profoundly regret it. General practitioners, surgeons, urologists, and physical therapists have all seen me and decided they can’t/don’t want to help.
I caution anyone considering this surgery. I know statistically there are more successes than failures but that hardly matters if you are one of the people who ends up with chronic complications. The doctors are almost running from the exam room to escape a conversation they don’t want to have. They don’t know how to manage these problems. Know that you can potentially be that person they dont want to work with and it is not a small percentage of patients. It is not a fraction of a percent. It is not even in the single digits. The number of people with chronic pain is a percentage in at least the teens and some suggest it may be as high as 30 percent. That is a lot of people and if you get this surgery you can be one of them. I don’t say this as a scare tactic. I say this because I am living it. I say it because I wish people would have been more honest with me. Honesty is a hard thing to come by these days, especially by surgeons who have a conflict of interest. To make money they have to perform surgery but sometimes it may not be in your best interest. How sad.