[John Fortem]

Hey Jeremy!

How you been? Is your conservative approach working?

I share your sentiment. Don’t rush to surgery unless your hernia becomes strangulated which is extremely rare, or you have big problems with your hernia such as constant groin pain or it becomes very large or passes down into scrotum. I have had mine for 8 years now and I am still staying away from surgery. My hernia is reducible, meaning it goes back in when I lay flat on my back and it has not enlarged by much (if at all) over the years. So it is possible in such situation to lead a normal life, with hernia, and without surgery.

Moreover, I have had episodes where my hernia would not poke out in the morning when I get up. Right now I am in my day 3 without hernia. I’m sure it will poke out again eventually. I hope of course that it would stay like this, but I think it’s just playing tricks on me right now. I wrote more about this over here, you can check it out:

https://www.herniatalk.com/8181-can-…ithout-surgery

Wishing you good health.