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Hi we are in the U.K. would like to hear from anyone in the U.K. who has had an extremely large hernia operated on. Have been told they will operate but high risk. He’s over weight.
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phil17356 dawn49915
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Hi Dawn,
I also am in the UK (ref below comment) and I had, what seemed to me to be, a large abdominal incisional hernia. I estimate that it was in the region of 5-6cm in diameter. There have been two attempts at repairing this, the last one being done on 07/12/2017, so I am still in the “building up strength” phase of recovery. I was not overly heavy; my BMI was just inside the upper limit for my height/age/sex.
There’s always a risk, so anything that can be done to mitigate that is going to be beneficial. The statistics for "unsuccessful" repair or re-repair are not insignificant and dependant on many factors but by and large I don't have any regrets ...... yet!
Hope that helps.
(Small rant start: Considering that different regions of the world have different procedures and processes, so what might be relevant to one person may not be to another in a different area, why don’t they make this site such that a participant’s location is obvious? If people are sensitive to that snippet of data being out there it could always be made optional and marked as undisclosed: Small rant end.)
Regards,
Phil.