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I think the best approach is not to do anything that puts undue pressure on your abdominals. That would include coughing heavy lifting strenght training,stretching which caused my current hernia, your posture when sleeping sitting standing sneezing. I plan on going to Dr Kang soon. Typed a much longer post on my phone with one finger and it didn’t post. Oh well.

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William, I got a red light therapy small panel that covers the abdominals.I also use it on my chest, neck and face.After about eight sessions of 8-10 minutes I still got pretty bad sore lower abdominals for a few days. It happens on and off. The manual of the device says to expect results for skin which would come from more collagen production after 8-12 weeks. Collagen gives you elasticity which makes tissues stretch and come back.

I found this youtube video where this 66 year old man got his hernia to disappear by eating foods high in collagen plus kefir and black pepper. He claims in the comments that collagen makes the biggest difference. I will be looking into buying some foods that contain gelatin or collagen or buy a collagen supplement like he also said. There are other videos on healing hernias that I haven’t watched yet. Just search heal hernia no surgery on youtube.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zwl1ciJ4Tc

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I had three hernias about 18 years ago, two inguinal and a third one two inches below and to the right of my navel. There were no bumps so they were small. They were confirmed by ultrasound and cough tests. I turned down mesh surgery suggested by surgeon and the pain went away completely within four months just by changing my sleeping position. I had been putting strain on my lower abdomen during my sleep which I solved by sleeping in a fetal position.

Now I have a right inguinal hernia with a bump that looks like a golf ball sticking out. I can keep in for the most part by wearing a belt with a pad I made myself and I think this way I can postpone surgery hopefully for a long time.

I also have had sore lower abdominals on and off when I put strain on them for many years. I got my current hernia five months ago. Dr Kang would be my choice for surgery. The person who did the ultrasound said I have weak abdominal muscles and until this is solved I am afraid I can get more hernias.

I am going to buy a light therapy belt at amazon for under $100 with near infrared waves of 850 nm which can penetrate about two or more inches. They claim light therapy makes the mitochondria produce more energy and it also stimulates collagen production. They also claim it aids in muscle recovery and relieves pain. I will try this and see what happens before I contemplate surgery.

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Is Dr Kang the only doctor who can do the kang repair well? I read on his web site that he does almost all of the repairs. What if he is no longer doing them which will happen when he retires? Will that be the end of the kang repair? Does it require extraordinary skills that only dr Kang or very few have?

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I just want to add that to me the first and most important thing is to find out what caused your hernia and stop doing that. The second thing is to do things that will help like wearing a belt and doing the right exercises and avoid exercises or doing other things like your posture and sleeping position that aggravate your hernia. Kang surgery is my third option.

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18 years ago I had three hernias (inguinal on both sides and one two below and to the right of my navel). There were no lumps, just pain. I got them from sleeping on my side in an abdominal stretch position for about a year. Then I went back to sleeping in a fetal position and the pain went away in four months.

Now 18 years later I got an inguinal hernia on the right. I think I got it after doing some stretching before going on a stationary bike. The ultrasound showes just fat no bowel poking through with no tear but pain after standing for a few minutes, sometimes burning and pulling sensations. I got some improvements from doing some exercises and wearing a hernia belt I made myself. I think I found some other exercise that will help.

The only surgery I will be willing to do is the Kang’s repair. But at this time I cannot travel. Just by reading Dr Kang’s website it’ s clear to me that he is first of all interested in the best outcome for the patient unlike most other surgeons who just fix the hernia with no consideration of what problems they can cause.

I am going to concentrate on strenghtening my abdominals and core which I think will help prevent and cure hernias.

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roger555, quite a story. I´m sure you couldn´t be happier. Probably everything was as you say, but let me comment nevertheless. Misdiagnosis can happen. Once, a doc told me I likely had serious kidney disease but later had to retract it because the lab tech´s description of my urine sample was misleading. Misdiagnosis happened at other times too. Medical machines also can err but docs take them at face value. Just within this year, I was misinformed about having high cholestoral and high BP when in fact a different lab and different clinic gave me normal readings. The former doc wanted to give me some serious drug to alter my supposed ill health. I couldn´t accept it because I am extremely fit and questioned the doc about the reliability of her tests. As I said another clinic´s tests showed the opposite, and I continue to have normal readings at different locations.

Your case is interesting because it being asymptomatic must mean it is harder to diagnose. If yours was correct, then it technically disproves what many docs say about IHs (and I emphasize I am not talking about any other type of hernia) being immune from any treatment other than surgery. Could it be possible that your IHs had a certain missing attribute that would put them in, say, a “pre-hernia” category?

While sleeping position would be a reasonable factor to consider, at the same time, reclined positions make many herniae practically asymptomatic at least temporarily. Maybe your sleeping position put stress on the groin which countered the positive reclined effect.

Anyway your case is quite interesting and must be considered for obvious reason. Thank you for sharing.

I can understand your point of misdiagnosis which does happen. Here is more information. My family doctor checked my hernia manually and he said he was confident they were hernias but he still send me to get an ultrasound. The lady who did the ultrasound said I definitely had hernias. I went to the surgeon my family doctor sent me to and he was sure I had the three hernial just by doing the cough test. He did not even look at the ultrasound and said we can tell if someone has an hernia without the ultrasound. He recommended surgery by I walked out without deciding to get one.

I am a side sleeper and used to sleep in a fetal position but then I changed my sleeping position by straightening the bottom leg which put me in the same position you assume when you do a floor abdominal stretch. After sleeping in this position for about a year developed the pains. . I noticed that this new sleeping position, floor abdominal stretch, was putting tension on my lower abdomen. I went back to sleeping in a fetal position with both of my knees bent together and the next day I had about a 50% reduction in pain, as I stated my IHs went away for good after three days and the third hernia after about two months.

I went back to my family doctor for my next annual check up and I asked him to check my hernias. He just checked the one below my navel and said that when I coughed he felt that something started to push out and then it stopped. I asked him if the first time he checked there was any difference and he said that the tissue was definitely pushing out significantly more for him to say I had a hernia where now I didn’t in his opinion. He asked me what I did and I told him and then he said that he was going to tell his patients who have the same problem to try that.

I have gone back to sleep in a floor abdominal stretch position and after three days my entire lower abdomen for left to right feels sore. I go back to sleeping in a fetal positiion and the soreness goes away after a few day. I also noticed that if I lie down on my back I feel tension on my lower abdomen and that when I lied down in a fetal position my entire abdomen feels very relaxed,

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I had three hernias at the same time: double inguinal and another one about two inches below my navel on the right side for about a year. I had just pain, no bulges and they were confirmed by my family doctor and surgeon with a manual cough test and an ultrasound. They went away completely after I changed my sleeping position so my lower abdomen would not have any tension. All three hernias had a 50% reduction in pain the day after I changed my sleeping position.

My two inguinal hernias went away completely by the third day and my other hernia slowly went away in about two months. I have been hernia free for about fifteen years since then. Just find a sleeping position that doesn’t cause any tension on your abdomen and that will help more than doing strengthening exercises in my opinion. Since everybody is different you might not get the same results that I got. Also, I had no bulges but the pain was real. But I think relieving the tension on you abdomen should help everybody with a hernia to some extent.

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I spent half an hour typing a new post under new topic typing on a tablet with one hand and withiout my reading glasses and when I cklicked post nothing happened and my message completely disappeared. Not good.It was Avery positive experience. Me hernias went away on their own without surgery after I took a simple action to address the cause not sure if this post will even post.