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Just to the question in the OP,we have a country here in Ireland where they will look after you to the best of their abilities no matter how much money you have.

I had just left my hernia for a few years until ,one day it would not “go back in” and I knew then that I had to see the doctor.

He examined me and sent me to the hospital with the instruction to wait there until I was seen to.

In the middle of Covid the waiting queues were very bad but I was lucky to get a bed and so my operation took place the same day.

Had I not got that operation there and then I am sure I would have had to come back again quite soon as it already felt a lot different and it was an excruciating process for the surgeon to push it back in manually and forcefully during the pre surgery examination.

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Thanks @MarkT .That is quite reassuring.

I wonder whether you know the reason that my surgeon ,in the hour or so prior to my surgery reduced my inguinal hernia?

I had an ongoing defect that had been reducible for 2 or 3 years but a second defect ,closer to the scrotum had appeared in the previous 3 or 4 days and was more painful as well as being irreducible.

Anyways my surgeon managed to reduce it and this was quite an excruciating experience.

I never found out exactly why he did this although I expect it may have been to explore prior to surgery how badly it was strangulated(indeed if it was as I still don’t know its precise condition except for the fact that he did manage to pop it back in)

They told me the following day that the surgery had gone well and that he hoped that the scar tissue would not catch a nerve.

I am not sure how long that danger persists.