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Hi Paul,

new to the forum and was reading your post,,, very sorry to hear of your situation however am very glad you shared your experience as a guide to people like me sitting on the fence.

I suggest you look at the following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMGJvHGJcQY

I was diagosed in june 2023 with a inguinal LH hernia 4cm no pain slight discomfort mostly leaning/bending forward . The echo results of which seem to have triggered my GP here in Belgium into a heightened state of panic to have it operated on asap. He was on the phone to his surgeon colleague to book an appointment. For a variety of reasons I later declined the appointment and decided to do due dilligence /research before doing anything. Briefly some advocate mesh others avoidance of mesh instead using local tissue to repair the hole. Another group take the approach that due to the instinsic weakness in the muscle and intrabdominal pressure the breach will occur later, elsewhere.lastly some fine fellows advocate wearing a truss coupled to targeted specific exercises to gain remission and avoid surgery.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlE7Dnp8dhM

All of which makes me even more perplexed as to why results are apparently haphazzard .

Hope some of this helps and you find a solution to the problem.

Gerald