PeterC

I’ve been reading about Dr. Yunis and he seems amazing and I genuinely regret not hearing about him before. Granted at no point did I have an actual hernia so his name didn’t come up because I wasn’t looking for hernia surgeons at the time.

See the one thing this forum and Dr. Brown did right – and my acupuncturist in L.A warned me about this -…[Read more]

@thunderrose

Hey thanks for even replying. First of all – I am just now finding out that he used silk suture when THE ENTIRE POINT of me going to him was because he said he only use absorbable material and doesn’t think the body should have foreign objects in them. I still don’t think the sutures is the problem but its just another thing that’s…[Read more]

@ajm222 check out Dr. Jonathan Yunis if you haven’t, he seriously has triple the combined positive reviews of all the doctors mentioned on here – I can’t find a single person who has a bad thing to say about him and does telemedicine consults for literally 1/5th of the price.

I feel you. The #1 reason some of us end up getting surgery is because we can’t take the back and forth anymore it really messes with your head and we tell ourselves ”if its going to be like this and never completely resolve on its own might as well get it fixed”.

But how many people can you find that were actually fixed after? I read your…[Read more]

@rob-t-uk I think thats exactly how I would handle it if I were in your shoes. Very sound thinking. Its a red flag when a surgeon wants to schedule you for surgery the next day without having even had a look at a single scan or yourself in person.

Marsh & LLoyd consults sound like a great idea for now. Hopefully they give you some…[Read more]

Actually to carry on from my previous response and the car example – its like your car engine caught fire and they take away the indicator that lets you know theres a fire/smoke in the engine and they tell you go back to driving it. which is even worse.

@good-intentions When I consulted with Dr. Zoland a few weeks back he was very candid about the subject and basically told me that some of these surgeons are very eager to cut nerves but that even a nerve block is not the most accurate diagnostic tool and is so vague that it can be completely useless because at the end of the day – any pain you…[Read more]

Hey Rob

There is a guy on here from the UK as well that was diagnosed with just a small inguinal hernia and went to Dr. Muschaweck to ”get ahead of it” before it gets worse. He’s been communicating with me and has said that before that surgery it wasn’t even hurting him he was simply concerned about it growing and getting worse but he said he…[Read more]

Not sure where her hernia is situated but I will say this – if she doesn’t have pain – don’t rush into surgery. These surgeons keep telling people that ”it cannot heal” and ”itll only get worse” to get you into surgery. Suddenly those people who only want preventively are stuck with severe dysfunction and/or pain.

I know of 2 people who had…[Read more]

@inguinalpete

I think I’m the best example of how some of these doctors don’t care. Look at my case right. I’m still young, lifelong athlete. My tissues are healthy as hell. I’m vegan, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink. Never had a hernia bulge. All my nerves are intact aside from one small part of my right ilioinguinal that was cut at the external…[Read more]

@inguinalpete

That’s insane. I’m genuinely sorry this happened to you.

I struggle with finding out whether these doctors know what they’re doing and just choose to ignore it knowing full well they’re about to permanently injure a patient – or if they’re genuinely so disconnected from reality that they just keep reciting the same recycled stats…[Read more]

@dmgonisland – I’m glad I could help you formulate more questions for your upcoming procedures.

Do not hesitate to ask for every single step to be explained – and if at any point the doctor becomes condescending or annoyed that you would ask such technical questions – do not be intimidated into silence. From my experience they do this because…[Read more]

Also – just so we’re clear – I am at 5% of what I was before his surgery. This is now a ”slow recovery”. I cannot recover from this until someone goes in and puts the muscles back where they are supposed to be and I don’t even know if that’s possible.

I am nearing 9 months of post-op. 9 months of not being able to go on a hike, a bike ride,…[Read more]

I also want to add that – if I would’ve walked out of there still having my original pain but nothing else – I would not be angry at all.

I understand that he can try to help me and miss. It happens. My option then is simply to keep looking and someone will eventually find whats going on.

The problem here is 1) he didn’t fix my original issue
2)…[Read more]

” – if anterior mesh (eg open) then mesh removal can only be done open. ”

So a mesh from a previous OPEN surgery wouldn’t be eligible to be removed laparoscopically?

Definitely appreciate the insight doc.

Alephy – you are right. The whole body is connected and weakness in the abdominal wall will cause a tight quadratus lumborum as well as a tight psoas as they brace to protect the spine.

I highly suggest to anyone reading this to look up the MoveU program – and to enroll. Its a program that takes people with various injuries/conditions and helps…[Read more]