Good intentions

My mistake, he’s actually playing tonight. I’d edit the original post but the forum software does not allow it. He played last week also.

If anyone has any details on what he had wrong and how they fixed it, it might offer at least one known good way to fix a hernia for a physically active person. A place to go, at least.

If the pain rates are similar, but the solution to the “chronic pain” is much more complicated for mesh, with pain management or neurectomy or mesh removal, or all three in series, then how can mesh be the first choice?.

Besides that, many reviews have shown that the definition of “chronic pain” is often vague. The surveys are poorly designed…[Read more]

There is a Search box on the very upper left of the first page of the forum. It’s not obvious, so maybe you missed it. No offense. You can find quite a bit about Novitsky and Jacob on the forum. I think that both of them have done Herniatalk LIVE sessions with Dr. Towfigh.

Thank you Dr. Szotek. While I can see that you have been offended and started to slide into typical internet “shading” in your response, that post is actually the type of information that everyone that comes to this site is expecting. Real-world professional information.

In my own profession I have found that it s best to assume that the…[Read more]

“We have not observed any chronic groin pain and we suspect that these implants will continue to perform at the highest level. ”

How do you evaluate chronic pain and discomfort? Not observing is the same thing that the synthetic mesh surgeons say. They haven’t heard anything. Not knowing does not mean it doesn’t exist.

And I know of at least…[Read more]

Dr. Slooter has been mentioned on the site before. Here is a thread about him, below, and another surgeon, Dr. Conze.

Search through the site, most of the surgeons that are known for mesh removal and hernia repair have been discussed in the past on the forum. There is a Search bar at the upper left of each page.

It would help you to know the…[Read more]

Everyone is “reassured” by what looks like a good idea. It’s the unintended and unaddressed side effects that are the problem.

Good luck.

Only posting so people can see the product. It is essentially a variation of the common plug-and-patch. Plugs are the only product that most surgeons will speak up against using. They create quite a mess, apparently.

Proflor

Bilateral mesh implantation is very common. It is almost the standard for laparoscopic mesh repair today. And successful mesh removal without destroying the peritoneum is also common. The fact that you’ve had a recurrence on both sides almost suggests that “incorporation” of the mesh did not happen as it is supposed to. It’s only been four…[Read more]

Not all, just some. There is a very wide variety of procedures and mesh materials, that all fall under the category of “open repair”.

They have to go beyond the edges of the hernia to find good tissue to attach to. How far they go can depend on the type of repair. Some of them use quite a bit of extra material. The Onstep repair (BD) pushes mesh all the way down to the pubic bone, for example. Here are a few of J&J open repair materials. The center pillar represents the…[Read more]

He said that it was larger than he thought it would be. but he only found a small lipoma on the other side, yet still used the same 6 x6″ piece of mesh. For a lipoma, a blob of fat stuck to the spermatic cord.

Mesh is viewed as some sort of magical material and they want to cover as much area as possible. It is all about recurrence, still,…[Read more]

Here is a presentation from one of the surgeons mentioned in that paper, where he describes what to say to a prospective customer, and how to reduce the surgeon’s liability. It is a shocking presentation to watch, but Dr. Felix is a popular presenter, an “expert” in the field. He is training the surgeons of the…[Read more]

Yes. Here is a very recent paper, essentially summarizing the “state-of-the-art” of “minimally invasive” surgery for mesh placement. Once they get in there they try to cover all areas that might herniate in the future. Technically, it is prophylactic mesh placement, which is supposedly not correct or ethical, but it is standard practice now. I…[Read more]

Ovitex is only a few years old, with a very limited number of patients. The reported data is shockingly sparse.

Don’t overlook that TelaBio is a new company, one of those high tech “startups”, that just went public. They need to get more people to use their product quickly. It’s just the way things are today. This is not a new product from a…[Read more]

Where are you? In the States, many surgeons use surgery centers to do their repairs. They can use several different centers, depending on what they need and availability. The surgery center will have more detailed records on what materials were used, since they supply those materials. 2009 is quite a while ago so your records might have been…[Read more]