Mike M

One thing to “debunk” – “low BMI” is not a requirement for pure tissue repair with a reputable doctor practicing a sound tissue repair method. Every top notch doctor from Kang to Grischkan will operate on patients outside of the ranges indicated by facilities like the Shouldice Hospital in CA. Those places use doctors you cannot select as well as…[Read more]

@William Bryant

My wife and I could not notice a bulge no matter how close or faraway we looked. However both Dr. Kang and Dr. Grischkan could tell right away without me saying anything to them. So although it must have been extremely subtle to the average eye it wasn’t to an experienced doctor.

Symptoms were the reason that I wanted to get it…[Read more]

@William Bryant

Pressure and dull pain in the groin region was the primary issue I had off and on for the brief period I knew about or created the hernia in via coughing.

I went through with it because it was affecting my quality of life and ability to lift weights / workout was a major concern.

Recovery is going great. Dr. Kang is top notch. I…[Read more]

@William Bryant

I had similar concerns prior to my surgery except my symptoms were starting to enter into the moderate range+. The way I was able to resolve it was to lay on my right side all night when I slept. My hernia was left side direct*, large.

After I did that it almost completely resolved all symptoms unless I did something stupid…[Read more]

Dr. Kang appeared youthful to me when I met him. There was no indication while I was there he was retiring but I did not ask.

He has some examples where he operated on very elderly patients with success since he does not use general (which tends to be one of the biggest obstacle). He will do an EKG prior to surgery for older patients from what I…[Read more]

Not sure if you missed the thread but right now all non-US IPs are banned on this site due the hacking incident.

Dr. Kang won’t be able to read the forums at the moment until this is lifted or he uses a VPN with a US IP (unlikely).

There was no indication to me that Dr. Kang was retiring anytime soon.

It is my understanding that the other doctors (including his son) are very successful in completing Kang repairs as they perform them every single day in mass.

I would assume Dr. Kang’s information regarding recurrence, chronic pain, etc. are for his hospital as a whole and…[Read more]

I meant being dead set against being asleep btw. Edit mode disappeared too quickly.

@WB The OR Table you are strapped down. Sedation can be lights out and/or twilight. I woke up the last 15 mins of the Umbilical repair though and managed to watch part of the repair through the reflection of the OR light which was pretty awesome. I was super chill in twilight mode and gave the doc the thumbs up when he asked me if I was ok.…[Read more]

This is what I can tell you only two weeks into healing process.

#1. The “pain” and tension has significantly decreased in what I would call a very short amount of time. It also continues to decrease every day. However, I would not classify what I experience now as pain pain.
There is still major healing taking place in my body considering the…[Read more]

Also just want to add you want to be very careful and check with your doctor before doing any type of exercise that could potentially put additional pressure on your abdomen making it worse.

If you have inguinal hernias too you might not be able to perform some of the exercises that could reduce the symptoms of your hiatal hernia as stated in…[Read more]

@linz

It is estimated up to 60% of adults 60 and over will develop some form of Hiatal Hernia. Larger hernias may require surgery, but typical hiatal hernias can heal with exercises and stretches that can strengthen the diaphragm. These exercises can reduce the risk and may even relieve some symptoms.

Yoga is a big one I found through research…[Read more]

@chuck

The input you provided was definitely taken into serious consideration regarding Dr. Kang. Specifically your personal experience inspired me to dig further into the details of each particular procedure. I would like to think I would have had a positive experience with Dr. Grischkan as he was my #2 choice. My biggest concern with Shouldice…[Read more]

@Monika. It is local with sedation and not General. I would never do general for this type of operation except for an emergency.

I am writing up a little bit about my experience with that during surgery.

It was a good no issues at all.

Thank you Doctor. I relayed similar information to some of the members overseas regarding my assumption of a potential hack last week.

A few of them assumed they were personally “banned” and I assured them that was not the case after seeing what error messages they were receiving.

I had zero issues with any of the roads there. The roads were exceptional throughout the city compared to a major US city.

The bumpy taxi ride did not cause the issue with Pinto. The hernia he had was called a “sliding” hernia that is rare and was not detected with the initial sonogram. A sliding inguinal hernia is defined as a hernia where part…[Read more]

@william bryant

You can do it for a lot less than I paid.

#1. I paid for two people (myself and a friend) to fly out first class with only 1 stop (there was no non-stop from my location). While you might not need first class I highly recommend against economy class. Do the next one up for it for minimal increase but a lot more comfort on a long…[Read more]

Also yes I know I spelled Desarda wrong. LOL

I edited in a few things quickly after I posted and didn’t have a chance to correct before it locked me out.

Hopefully a moderator here can edit that and delete this. lol

There are just under 60k active mesh related lawsuits per year and growing in the United States alone with 800k new mesh repairs per year that comes out to 7.5% of all new mesh cases per year.

Obviously some of those cases are multi-year litigation but even so that is still something to ponder.

Additionally many countries overseas like…[Read more]