On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:13:39 -0400, Hank© wrote:
On 10/6/2013 8:50 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 15:03:23 -0400, John H
wrote:
Got diagnosed with same last Friday. Operation scheduled for next Monday. No golf. That sucks.
Always loosen large weeks before trying to pull.
John, I don't know what your attending physician has in store for you,
but be VERY wary of those damn mesh fixes. I'm getting ready to lose
an employee for the second time for removal of mesh, which IMHO the
body never sees as anything other than a foreign body. This mess
includes a second major surgery and the complications of a huge
abscess.
I hope you fare better.
I had one repaired without mesh. That repair lasted about a year. The
second time around he used mesh and it's held up more than 30 years. MMV
It looks like many of the mesh problems were due to the type mesh:
"Many complications related to hernia repair with surgical mesh that have been reported to the FDA
have been associated with recalled mesh products that are no longer on the market. Pain, infection,
recurrence, adhesion, obstruction, and perforation are the most common complications associated with
recalled mesh. In the FDA’s analysis of medical adverse event reports to the FDA, recalled mesh
products were the main cause of bowel perforation and obstruction complications."
Nowadays, about 90% of the repairs use mesh:
"Hernias have a high rate of recurrence, and surgeons often use surgical mesh to strengthen the
hernia repair and reduce the rate of recurrence. Since the 1980s, there has been an increase in
mesh-based hernia repairs—by 2000, non-mesh repairs represented less than 10% of groin hernia repair
techniques."
We'll see. I had a repair on the other side in 1977, it's held up all this time. Of course, I don't
swing at trees with my golf clubs!
--
John H.
Hope you're having a great day!