[muglia]

I’v decided to go with Dr. Yunis with a bilateral open, Shouldice, no mesh for several reasons.

1. If it failed again with a mesh or I had pain and the mesh had to come out, it’s a mess inside. That’s the worst outcome.

2. He’s doing a Shouldice, the gold standard for non-mesh.

3. He’s probably the top in volume in open tissue repairs. Very experienced. He removes lots of mesh.

4. Too many horror stories of life altering pain from mesh to keep track of. When you hear ads on the radio for attorneys looking for clients harmed by mesh you have to eliminate it as an option.

5. Open recovery is longer, but if mesh goes bad, it’s life changing pain that was self inflicted. We have a choice.

6. I find it difficult to understand how people select a surgeon based on location. I’ll be traveling across the country to see Dr. Yunis. Picking any surgeon is one of most important choices you can make in life.

7. Don’t be convinced by the doctor that his way is the best way. They have big egos and think they walk on water. Research the technique. If going mesh, Google lawsuits for the doctor mesh choice

8. Second choice would be Dr. Kang or Shouldice Clinic. A place that specializes in hernias and does thousands of them.

9. Google images of removed hernia mesh.

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[muglia]

I just consulted with Dr. Nguyen for a repair of a Bassini repair performed by Dr. Brown in 2013.

He recommended using the Divinci with Phasix, which is absorbable.

I spoke to Dr. Yunis recently and he said Phasix is a joke. If the mesh literally gone in 12-18 months, you have nothing left except scar tissue. Dr. Nguyen never mentioned doing a no-mesh. He seems pretty happy with his Divinci/Phasix factory.

Yunis said the only way to go, mesh-less is Sholdice or a maybe a Darsada if it’s small.

Yunis has seen it all, he’s the guys you want to remove the mesh when it goes wrong.

Looking back, as a former Olympic athlete with a bilaterial inguinal hernia, I should have gone to Shouldice in Canada.

Dr. Brown’s repair just wasn’t durable enough.

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[muglia]

I just consulted with Dr. Nguyen for a repair of a Bassini repair performed by Dr. Brown in 2013.

He recommended using the Divinci with Phasix, which is absorbable.

I spoke to Dr. Yunis recently and he said Phasix is a joke. If the mesh literally gone in 12-18 months, you have nothing left except scar tissue. Dr. Nguyen never mentioned doing a no-mesh. He seems pretty happy with his Divinci/Phasix factory.

Yunis said the only way to go, mesh-less is to perform a Sholdice or a maybe a Darsada if it’s small.

Yunis has seen it all, he’s the guys you want to remove the mesh when it goes wrong.

Looking back, as a former Olympic athlete with a bilaterial inguinal hernia, I should have gone to Shouldice in Canada.

Dr. Brown’s repair just wasn’t durable enough.

Also Google Phasix law suits – thousands of lawsuits
allege defects in the mesh led to complications such as pain, infection,
bowel obstruction, and organ damage. This settlement is expected to result in total payouts possibly exceeding $1 billion to victims.

In regard to mesh, ss patients, we are stuck in the middle because the surgeons are not responsible for the liability as we sign away the right to sue them, the mesh and robot companies are taking on all the liability so the surgeons keep pushing their speedy factory repairs. It’s not in their best interest to fight back. People want faster recovery times and don’t do the research and weigh the risks of life altering pain from failed mesh. Imagine a piece of plastic window screen, about 6″ x 8″ installed in your belly and your cells and nerves grow inside the openings and then for some reason, it shifts or folds in half and it hits other major nerves and possible damages all the nerves needed to get an erection and climax. Then eventually, all that organic and plastic screen has to be removed because of the life-altering pain. What do you do at that point?

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