Wim
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How did it get strangulated? There is really no information how hernia’s got strangulated in order to know how to minimalize this risk.
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Nope. Just watching now 1 year already, mostly also because of COVID (these procdure were all stopped for a long time here)
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Don’t expect much of the ultrasound. I did also one and still I don’t know what kind of hernia I have. You get as answer that it doesn’t change much, althouh direct hernia is 10 times less change to get strangulated than indirect hernia for instance.
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I wonder what is the cause an exitign hernia gets incarcerated and needs to be operated.
I am also watching my hernia, but also avoiding pressureon the hernia. I am not a runner because I think that doing that the shock of the intestins could make the hernia bigger. Applying counterpressure on toilet, etc.The risk is small but nowhere you get info how someone got an incarcerated hernia.
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Recurrence rate is a word used but never we read how the recurrence occured. I guess once you are operated you check regurlarly if there is one or not. Theer is probably a lot one can do once repaired to avoid recurrence.
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I remember that post, but why not let the patient choose? If it is 500$ extra for absorbable mesh, so what? Compared to total cost it is not that much extra for more safety.
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This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Wim.
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This doctor Edward Felix is pro-mesh in such a way that the Shouldice Hospital is doing things what should not be done because the mesh problems are extremely rare.
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“It allows general surgeon to do also hernia repIr with less re-occurrences” that is why mesh has become the first choice. Google yourself for it. And it is a constant flow of money for the producers
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I had contact with a German doctor and I asked what if the hernia is too big for a good tissue repair, then he would use an absorbable mesh also. The strength deoesn’t sem to be provided by the mesh itself but the scar tissue that grows on it. Maybe the ideal would be tissue repair + absorbable mesh. The best of both worlds?
What you also often read is that the introdcution of the mesh allowed less skilled/good surgeons do successfully hernia repairs. It was thus never in the patients interests that the mesh is being used.
Maybe more prevention and research should be done to identify us patients before we get a hernia actually.
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This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by Wim.
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Why not combining tissue repair with re-absorbable meshes? Maaybe it is the combination of the two that makes the best?
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RIsk is small, but there is difference between direct and indirect hernia. Due to COVID all non-urgent surgery is cancelled in Belgium. And we don’t have specialized hospitals like in USA, Canada.
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How do you define “Asymptomatic hernia”? I have a slightly visible bulge but no pain.
Or means “Asymptomatic” that there is nothing (fat or bowel) going into the inguinal canal?
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Maybe it is a sports hernia?
“A sports hernia is a strain or tear of any soft tissue (muscle, tendon, ligament) in the lower abdomen or groin area. Because different tissues may be affected and a traditional hernia may not exist, the medical community prefers the term “athletic pubalgia” to refer to this type of injury”
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So it was done with a mesh that is supposed to be superior than tissue repair?
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Is desarda better repair than Shouldice? According to desarda website it is:)
But in the opinion of aspecialist like dr Towfigh? -
My hernia dissapears by itself when lying down, when standing up nothing to to but the slightest pressure on the bowl makes it appear.
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That question comes back all the time after mesh removal, why the mesh is no longer needed? Maybe the mesh removal includes some tissue repair also?
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In Europe it was possible to register a grape fruit mesh as suitable for mesh implants…
It is in Dutch:
https://radar.avrotros.nl/uitzendingen/gemist/item/mandarijnennetje-als-implantaat-goedkeuring-implantaten-is-een-farce/-
This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Wim.
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So you got the mesh out but how is than the hernia repaired? This raises the question why the mesh is needed then? Suppose thre is a mesh that dissolves after 1 year would this also lead to curing the hernia?
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But did you have a visible lump? Mine is half of an egg-size. It doesn’t bother me neither, but still i don’t know if it is indirect (with greater risk it will go bad ) or a direct hernia. The 2 docters +1 echograph specialist I consulted didn’t precise this.