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This is a great question. Wanting to know myself. I hope the dr’s on here can answer. thank u !!@
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I hope the dr’s on here can chime in too…This is a good question.
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Dear Dr Brown,
Thank you for your answer 🙂
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Agreed with above post!!! Dr Brown u are a VIP 🙂 to us, readers and patients, just on here, regardless of what u do as a dr in professional practice. It stinks that our society doesn’t openly value older age…but we all age, so what can ya do.
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Hi Dr Brown,
I so appreciate you responding to my question. 🙂
As much as I like my mom’s primary dr, he made it sound like she should go see the hernia surgeon, but I think that’s more for legal reasons, than for anything else. (IT’s a bit of a factory farm env’t in FL when it comes to dr’s but that’s neither here nor there.)I should mention that when I went with her last time to her primary dr., he actually touched the hernia area and I guess did something MANUALLY to check if it’s incarcerated, which he said it wasn’t, at that TIME. I’m not sure how Kosher that was for him to even do, because the hernia hurt my mom for a few hours after that (which it never does) but THANKFULLY the pain went away. He does have many years experience as a primary dr., so I told myself that I shouldn’t worry about this.
Anyway, I would have to AGREE with u. I’m not a dr. and my instincts are to leave things be…
QUESTION: so should my mom even go see the hernia surgeon AT ALL? My fear is that he will touch it and really make it hurt and then she’ll really NEED to have SURGERY?Please forgive my cynicism here, but who knows…I mean, I don’t know if insisting on OPEN repair/LOCAL ANESTHESIA is something I can ask from a surgeon. Is that MUCH RISKIER than LAPAROSCOPIC that’s done with GEN. ANEST.?
I guess I’m just fearful that surgery would be bad for my mom, either the actual SURGERY itself or complications that would come after a “successful” surgery. Which is why I would push for LOCAL ANESTHESIA only, if surgery were to ever happen, but as I said, I am inclined to just let it be, as you have mentioned as long as it doesn’t bother her.
THANK YOU for listening.