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Prostatitis can occur after hernia repair if you had a Foley urinary catheter placed during the operation.

If you’ve been diagnosed with prostatitis, have you been adequately treated for that?

Absolutely no reason to cut nerves as part of any tissue repair. Not sure who told you that is done.

No studies on women at all. You are right.

Cutting the round ligament has no effect on prolapse or other uterine support

Best advice by @good-intentions.

The round ligament has no sexual function.

I have not seen or been reported to by my patients that the Shouldice or any other tissue repair of the inguinal hernia in women confers any negative sexual function. If anything, inguinal hernia repair can reduce pelvic floor spasm and thus penetration is less painful.

Once caveat: we do not…[Read more]

No one is screwed for life. There is always a reason and therefore a treatment. You have to find the right doctors who can help you. If Dr. Yunis offered you help, follow his lead. If you have urologists who think it is treatable, follow their lead.

Your story is among so many others, and they mostly get the help they need. We shared many of…[Read more]

The king of watchful waiting answered all our burning questions. If you missed it, you can watch it here:

So many stories shared. And so many lessons learned from each.

If you missed this week’s HerniaTalk LIVE, you can catch it here: https://youtu.be/vTrdd61Nq2M

Here is a nice study that reviews all high quality studies that actually look at laparoscopic vs open inguinal hernia repairs. You can see that laparoscopic repair is either statistically superior or tends to be better than open repair in most categories.

https://academic.oup.com/bjs/article/106/7/824/6092901?login=true

When we surgeons talk…[Read more]

Amazing hour with Dr. Bahlani! The discussion was packed with information about all sorts of #pelvicpain, including bladder, vaginal, penile, vulvar, perineal, pudendal, and other pelvic floor disorders. If you missed it, you can watch it all on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/la4SsUecAqo

Thanks everyone who participated. We had so many questions posed and answered.

If you missed it, you can watch and share from here: https://youtu.be/UWWHbFx1hog

I disagree with multiple statements:

– there is no indication for prophylactic hernia repair
– open mesh removal of a posterior mesh is not less invasive than robotic approach
– the extent of floor opening and tissue trauma via open approach to remove mesh is above what is necessary
– nerves are almost never injured with robotic approach and…[Read more]

Got it.

You should be able to edit your posts.

When the option for laparoscopic/robotic mesh removal is available, it makes no sense to impart extra injury to the inguinal floor by opening through it when the same operation cam be performed with increased precision and less invasively. Robotic surgery by specialists is considered safe and does not impart extra injury. I don’t agree with the…[Read more]

I believe that open/anterior hernia mesh should be removed via open/anterior approach. Laparoscopic/robotic/posterior mesh should be removed via laparoscopic/robotic approach.

I believe that Dr. Kang only offers open surgery and does not offer laparoscopic/robotic surgical options. If he only offers open surgery, then I would not consider an…[Read more]

Constipation does not imply obstruction. Those are two distinct clinical situations: one is non-urgent and the other is urgent/emergent.

If the hernia includes his colon and he is obstructing as a result, then that requires repair. Otherwise, it is common for elderly to be constipated, with our without hernias, and so the treatment should be…[Read more]