[Watchnwaitin]

@pinto, method was using the $20 truss with the pad turned flat side in using it 5-6 hours a day at work, or when doing anything more physical around the house (didn’t use for exercising that I do everyday). Ice packs for about 10 minutes after taking it off, eat well, and when lifting anything don’t lean over and keep it under 20lbs.

[Watchnwaitin]

I have had an inguinal hernia for the last 2 1/2 years.Noticed it as a very small bump and had an ultrasound that confirmed it (person doing ultrasound had a hard time finding it and said it looks like a bit of fat tissue coming thru between tissue). Was referred to a specialist and they said can fix it or wait after I told them pain was about a 1 out of 10 and not a big issue. Second year it would give some pain randomly and more often, usually after doing some lifting or excertion, a 2 out of 10 I’d say and got a bit larger. Decided to get it fixed (open mesh)and waited close to a year, then the week of surgery got the flu and decided to cancel and re-book. After that read up mesh and no mesh, and a guy who claimed to fix his by using a flat pad truss, ice packs, and certain excercises. Bought a truss and use it daily for 5-6 hours each day since January (turned the pad flat side in, and also use when doing something more physical in the garage) and in the last 6 months bump became smaller and 0 out of 10 pain basically. I do everything still as normal including biking and hiking everyday, working on my cars and dirt bikes. Only thing I do different is don’t lift anything over around 20 pounds. Originally was about the size of an almond a couple of mm high, then later close to double that, now back to around almond size.

Luckily mine is small and hardly protudes, and realize it will probably need fixing in the future but happy for now its not much of an issue.

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[Watchnwaitin]

@Herniated : Instead of making such a distasteful post, why not ask Dr Kang more information on his repair procedure here on the Forum? He usually will reply to questions on this forum thankfully or his assistant Stephen will as well.

From Dr Kang’s Gibbeum Hospital Website :

“He saw many patients suffering from chronic pain after mesh inguinal hernia operations, and eventually he successfully treated those patients with severe debilitating mesh pain by removing the mesh inserted by their General Hospital. That dramatic experience forced Dr. Kang to seek a new non-mesh hernia repair, and he began to develop the new repair method based on his past experience with Bassini repairs.

Because old fashioned tissue repairs, such as Bassini repair, have a very high recurrence rate, the most important criteria was to find a way to reduce this rate. After a year or so of development and improvements, the Kang Repair method, which is the new tissue repair, was completed. More than 6,000 Kang Repairs for inguinal hernias were performed by Dr. Kang for about five years from 2013 to 2017 and have wielded extremely positive results.”

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by  Watchnwaitin.

[Watchnwaitin]

Good to know, I guess its a very small risk and more likely with large hernias probably. Mine is small and when I was looking for a doctor one of the receptionists asked me if I could push it in and I was perplexed as it barely protudes out so I don’t think pushing anything in is even possible.

I am waiting for now as there’s not much pain and would like to be able to travel but was worried when I saw info saying not recommended to fly with a hernia on more than a short couple of hours trip.

[Watchnwaitin]

@MarkT – Thanks for the info.

Seems like the Kang method is a modified Bassini with special stitching and no cut of cremaster muscle or more invasive steps/techniques.

Has good success from the looks of it but would be nice to have a more complete and precise explanation of what exactly is done.

[Watchnwaitin]

Is there a detailed description anywhere of how the Dr Kang method of tissue repair is done? I’ve searched but only found details of the other methods.

[Watchnwaitin]

@Watchful,

1) How did you go about picking your surgeon? I don’t see any info on the surgeons at Shouldice Hospital on the website.

2) Is there still a c19 vacs policy there for a patient or their spouse or is that gone now?

Hope your post op recovery is going well.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by  Watchnwaitin.