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Re: Dr. Chen – I have heard mixed things. He seems to be a big proponent of cutting nerves to improve pain and people have very different experiences with this – some good, some really bad. I initially had thought he was one of the top people for these issues, but others have told me they’ve seen a number of bad outcomes from surgery with him. So…[Read more]

Hey JR – sounds like Dr. Towfigh is answering some of your questions on the other thread. Who did your surgery by the way? Feel free to private message me if you’d rather. My mesh was inguinal and I think the situations are too different for me to be able to speak with any intelligence on what’s going on. I’m actually surprised in my case I have…[Read more]

Thank you, Dr. I’ll certainly be keeping an eye on it. I know Dr. Belyansky suggested hernias that were originally indirect seem less likely to reherniate after removal, at least for the 3-5 years he’s been kind of tracking this. I did assume there was a decent chance someday I’d get another hernia there. Would be nice just to have at least a few…[Read more]

Hour and a half I think?

thanks, mitch. will be sure to keep you posted on my progress. hope you continue to feel good as well. will be interested to see over time if your issues continue to improve. i believe mine did to some degree over the years. but after three years i was worried they would never fully resolve. some folks would probably not have been much bothered…[Read more]

So I believe what he meant was not that running caused the hernia itself, but perhaps theoretically could have caused some of the groin pain and discomfort I was feeling. I think he was just trying to consider possibilities for the discomfort in my unique case where it was more mild to moderate and was never super obvious that it was 100% the mesh…[Read more]

Yes, as mentioned, being worse off is always possible and a serious concern for anyone undergoing mesh removal. The statistics favor improvement, but the details are all very important and each case is unique, and there are no guarantees regardless.

Yes, at the moment I’m happy I had it done. We’ll see long term how it plays out. I think if you go in with terrible nerve pain and major issues, you can notice big improvement immediately, assuming nothing from the surgery makes anything worse, which is possible. But total recovery from this surgery takes a long time. I do think I had imm…[Read more]

Thank you, Dr. Brown

I don’t know for sure, but I know most of the studies I’ve seen actually report less and less pain and discomfort the longer you go out. one of course wonders if some of this is just people getting used to whatever pain and discomfort they have and reporting as being less over time, or if it really does subside. one study showed resolution of even…[Read more]

Have you ever been tested for my sort of connective tissue disorder?

He did mention his mesh and said he’d never get a tissue repair again now that mesh is available. But he didn’t say anything about how it felt. One just assumes he’s happy with it. He has it on both sides. Originally had tissue repairs on both sides that held for decades.

So the study I referenced wasn’t done by Shouldice specifically – he just mentioned it was a study out of Canada.

i’d also have to suspect that ‘chronic’ pain with tissue repair would more likely resolve after 3, 6 or 12 months than chronic pain caused by mesh.

watching the latest HerniaTalk discussion with Edward Felix was interesting. he mentioned that I think it was Shouldice that indicated 23% or so incidence of some sort of chronic pain for tissue repairs, which along with recurrence was one reason for trying to find a better alternative. i need to go back and listen again and make sure it was…[Read more]

I think this is a good place for surgeons to chime in with cases they’ve seen where pure tissue repairs caused chronic discomfort, as they are the ones claiming it happens. It does feel like it’s overestimated, just like problems with mesh are likely underestimated.

Wow, very timely. Thanks for posting. And good to see you back.

Absolutely true