For what it's worth, I had a hernia repair about a year ago. From what I've heard, after you have had abdominal surgery, hernia's are most likely a fact of life.

1) Traditional surgery has less complications than laproscopic surgeries for treating hernia's (no robots!)

2) Mesh helps prevent another hernia, but might cause problems with adhesions.

When my hernia was fixed, I went with the traditional surgery and the surgeon opted to not use mesh b/c the hernia was "small."

So far no issues, but I mostly sit at a desk, no real physical labor.

I had a mesh repair of an incisional hernia that was quite large. That was in 1996. I've raised two boys since then, with lots of heavy lifting and an active life. No recurrence of the hernia, and no unusual adhesion issues. I even had another surgery (laparoscopic) since then, and my mesh was not an issue.

Jan

I've had a few hernia repairs and to be honest the only ones that have held were the mesh repairs through laporoscopic surgery ( to be fair I have particularly fragile tissues and skin so I need the reinforcement).
All well so far...seems to be holding just fine and I have also had other laporoscopic procedures since.
Sharon