PeterC

@pinto I didn’t have a hernia at any point I had some overuse tearing in my groin as a professional dancer – and the one big surgery I got bilaterally was through Dr. Brown and his ”sports hernia repair”. The reason I’m so messed up is because he does his own made-up procedure which is a mix of shouldice & desarda (so a mix of 2 hernia…[Read more]

I can’t answer your question but I can tell you removal of the ilioinguinal nerve has a direct impact on permanently impairing the cremasteric reflex/cremaster muscle function even though half the doctors like to pretend it has no motor function to justify cutting it out of people left and right. It’s both in the literature (which they choose to…[Read more]

I tried to edit to add to my reply to good intentions above this but what I’m trying to say is – there is a severe lack of guidelines – of methodology. Yes its not all black & white its a hard area to diagnose. But there are things that clearly are dangerous & damaging for patients that are still being done out of pure lazyness and/or lack of…[Read more]

Yes and no, in most cases the problem is indeed the mesh. But the response some of these surgeons have or their methods are a recipe for disaster. Nerves become their bread & butter to explain everything. But theres actually very few real cases where a nerve needs to be tended to. They think a nerve block is an appropriate diagnostic tool to tell…[Read more]

@herniahelper but do you not think that the reason there are not more people coming out to share their positive experiences is because there are almost no people with positive experiences? At what point does it click? Its the equivalent of crazy anti-vaxxers saying ”its funny how the virus only affects those that didn’t get vaccinated” -…[Read more]

You’re in for a ride honestly – half of these doctors don’t look at the images they just take the word of the non-specialized radiologist that does your initial scan/assessment (in my 4 years of dealing with groin injury). Who cares about double-checking and making sure they didn’t miss anything am I right?

Dealing with an injury has opened my…[Read more]

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]