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Still no word from Dr. Towfigh nor Dr. Sbayi about where he disappeared to? Did he get fired or did he quit?
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I remember the DeSarda video. 80’s yr old patient. Asked to cough after completion of surgery to check the repair. So he was fully awake. Honestly the USA sedation you describe is unacceptable to me, it’s almost the same as general anesthesia. Neurologists up on the research will tell you this is destructive to the brain especially in old patients. I will live with my hernia before I allow them to fuck up my brain to fix it.
Also I check on the guy in Ft. Meyers. He might be good, but I found at least three serious complaints about him on healthgrades. I am not here to defame anyone so I won’t go into details on it, you can visit the reviews at their site. Also he is an Osteopath. I prefer and M.D.
I will take a look at Yunis, see what I can find on him.
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Thanks to all for the good replies. I am in a third world city that is not noted for high quality medical care and I am having trouble getting honest information from some of the “professionals” here. In reference to Watchful’s reply “midazolam (also known as Versed – it’s a benzo sedative) and fentanyl (opioid analgesic) in addition to the local anesthesia.” I consulted with one of the anesthesiologist who actually lied to me when he told me all his hernia surgeries were done “local” because I know that is not done here routinely. He told me he uses Bupivacaine + Isobaric +epinphrine. I am not familiar with those but in lookup say B. is used for spinal anesthesia which the literature says can cause urinary retention and other problems, not to mention them screwing up a spinal injection? It has to be either a better city here in the Philippines or USA for me. I am not completely sold on the no mesh method. I researche this before and the only one I was interested in was Desarda and it’s hard to find a qualified surgeon in the USA that does a lot of those. I think someone here mentioned some shouldice people at Buffalo SUNY I think it was? That might be a possibility if I can stand the weather there even for a few days. Sorry if my posts sound so negative, but I really don’t think this is such an easy nut to crack and it’s still surgery, anything can happen as testimony to the many complaints online of chronic pain, mesh migration, and other complications. Thanks again to all. Great board.
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ok thanks for that reply. I can’t go to Canada and even if I could I would not :-). Yeah I did not know that sedation was the norm thanks. Neurologists will tell you anytime you put the brain to sleep, even sedation, you’re damaging the brain.
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worldpeace, how did you determine 3 and 4?: “3. For a small percentage of patients, the LA nerve block may cause a temporary numbness of the leg due to it affecting the motor nerves and hence cause difficulty in walking on the surgery day.
4. For LA, the overall surgery time may take longer by another 20 minutes or so since the doctor has to do the ultrasound guided nerve block in addition. -
This is one reason why I have delayed fixing my hernias for so long: inability to find a really good surgeon who would do it local. Before I wanted no mesh, but I am reassessing the problem of reoccurrence which I now think may be more likely that reported from Desarda. Remember Desarda was a MASTER surgeon. You just have to watch his videos to see that even as a layman. Not a missed move, no stumbling, everything precise, almost robotic in measure, even pace, methodical.
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I tried emailing his supposed secretary Theresa and got an auto reply from back in august. Apparently she is not attending her email over august-sept. Unprofessional imo. Also I found out Sbayi previously to he recent video here, was not noted for specializing in hernia surgery but other kinds of surgery. Also he went to medical school in, get this: The Dominican Republic. Good talker but no thanks. I am changing my mind about local anesthesia and also about no mesh. I don’t see top notch surgeons mentioned here doing either.
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Thanks again so much Watchful. It’s been several years since I researched Desarda surgeons. Apparently more have
joined the group. That other surgeon whose video interview was impressive and came with patient recommendations here was Dr. Sbayi out of Stony Brook, Long Island (not suny sorry). But post as of this month says he is no longer with
his past place of employment and offers no additional info. I will check out Dr. Tomas in Ft. Myers, thanks.
Do you know anyone here or elsewhere that gives details of surgery with him? Thanks again for that referral. Surgeons aside, I’d much rather go to Ft Myers than Long Island, 🙂 Do you have anything further to say about the
anedotes here and elsewhere about breakthrough pain with local anesthesia and how they might handle that?
Did you perchance see the video of Dr. Desarda doing hernia surgery from several years ago. I wonder if he is
still practicing. That was a video of a MASTER surgeon, I don’t need to be a doctor to know that.