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Was he operated by Dr.Muschaweck? How did you find out? Couldn’t find this info on the Internet ☺ I wish she operated also in Switzerland 😣

Hi I am wondering, were both indirect hernias? So you had general anesthesia?
Which mesh he would have used in case? As for the tissue quality I would have thought the fascia was more important 🤔

Thank you it was a nice session! I am wondering, does Dr East operate also on patients coming to her from other countries? As she mentioned she performs also tissue repairs when fit, I would be interested to know if one can travel to Prague to her for the surgery, and if yes at what costs…I could not find her contact details unfortunately…thanks again!

Any reason why you absolutely want his opinion? Unless he is the only doctor around that is…so he doesn’t have a website with his bio and focus?

Personally I would just go to a doctor that will tailor the surgery to you, even before considering the ultrasound.
At the end of the day, unless you opt out for watchful waiting (this is me at the moment) the surgeon will go in and (unless it is a mesh surgery) he or she should be able to adapt to what is type of hernia is there (I am just…[Read more]

I can understand some doctors may feel a strong frustration, but it is a fact that many still tell their patients that e.g. an inguinal hernia (with mesh) is a simple procedure with a very low rate of complications, if any.
No surgical procedure is without risks, and I can understand this, but only so long as these risks are openly…[Read more]

This is an interesting question: do you get an hernia because of an injury, or is it a degenerative process?or both? A mesh is supposed to give you extra resistance but an exercise could move it or cause inflammation next to it. Tissue repairs do not address the degenerative aspect. Having said that, not moving or exercising out of fear will most…[Read more]

Well I think Dr. Brown does quite a few tissue only repairs, in fact pretty much only tissue repairs.

One point to bear in mind with patients leaving a feedback is this: typically a patient with an hernia who gets surgery and all goes well, will likely go back to their lives without spending much time discussing again the past medical problem.…[Read more]

Many medical web sites often rely on the doctors answering questions without going into details. This forum I think is different as the patients have often seen enough surgery that they require now the whole science behind…

I think it may vary from person to person. BTW I found this article about a professional tennis player having had some nerve burned after an hernia surgery

RIchard Gasquet: “I Spent the First 15 Days in Bed”

He is still playing, but it depends on which nerves and what “burned” means exactly…

I am thinking the one described here is more a plug really..

So what is the difference with respect to the other existing 3d meshes do you think? Btw the authors conducted animal testing before the trial which is already something. They seem to be saying that their 3d mesh moves and so the tissue that grows on it is not scar tissue, and there is no feeling of the mesh. So the other 3d meshes don’t move?🤔

I wonder whether one can differentiate between scar tissue problems and the mesh itself….from reading the forum it seems those who had mesh removal were fine afterwards, with the scar tissue stopping the hernia from recurring…the problem with inguinal hernias is they occur in a place that is key to movement so anything static can cause lots of…[Read more]

I searched the mesh type and I am not sure it dissolves over time. I think the fixation idea behind it has been discussed in this forum before, maybe try and search for it…another thing I seem to remember is that the mesh surgeons recommend a minimum period of time before they would even consider removal: before they advise on pain control…[Read more]

Hopefully doctors will chime in and comment, but I would consider pain after exercising “not normal”, in the sense that it is not in line with what doctors tell patients about mesh repair; but I guess it is normal in the real world where mesh repair is NOT a routine surgery (by which I mean, with very little rate of complications). Hopefully the…[Read more]

What I found interesting is the claim that the tissue growing on their 3d scaffold is of higher quality than the standard meshes i.e. it is not scar tissue. If this is true I am wondering whether they could also use then a mesh that is reabsorbed (yes, my obsession:) in the end, although this is a 3d scaffold so I have no idea if this works…[Read more]

I wonder if the doctors on this forum could comment on their patients, and how many of them suffered from chronic pain..of course assuming there was some follow up…

Well I just looked at some papers around that were comparing synthetic meshes vs the bio ones e.g.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569804/pdf/fsurg-02-00048.pdf (this one suggests they should be used in a contaminated field)

or

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1553350617697849

Other than objecting that they are too…[Read more]