RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: The Terror of Anticipated Pain and Opioid Pain Relief

Dr. Google/ChatGPT explain the over-the-counter pain relief medications and the big guns like opioids the latter instilling, perhaps rightly so, terror of opioids. I am sure you have your personal perceptions of the evils of opioids. On a scale of 1-10 my view is I’ll take post hospital when my pain scale is a 12/10.Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: The Terror of Anticipated Pain and Opioid Pain Relief”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: PAIN AND SUFFERING

There would seem some consensus as to some of the temporal aspects of pain after inguinal hernia surgery and the bottom-line conclusion of expect some pain is not debatable! What is not so easily ascertained is the length and severity of the pain. Pain is a relative concept. The degree of pain experienced by thoseContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: PAIN AND SUFFERING”

RKS Literature: A Venereal Gift From Calcutta (Andrea Levy)

“In the light of day, locked behind a toilet door, the enormous throbbing sore had produced a hat of pus. I felt it pop like a grape in my pants as I sat down to another meal of potato and sausage. It was ringed with a blue line clear as if drawn with a pencil.Continue reading “RKS Literature: A Venereal Gift From Calcutta (Andrea Levy)”

RKS Literature: Syphilis WWII Style?

“The medical officer, on the boat when we first came out east, had warned us RAF recruits. Ulcers, inflammations, colourful discharge, swellings. All the result of sexual relations with the wrong type. He’d given us lectures. Colourful pictures were passed around. Lurid photographs. Quite shocking. Parts of the body unrecognizable as human. Turned some ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: Syphilis WWII Style?”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event

Not to exaggerate but hernia surgery is big business so why not cash in! I am close to finalizing a pay for view event “Hernias the Agony and the Ecstasy” with Fightview International based in Pineville, North Carolina. There will be three event viewings. View one: “The Scourge of the Hernia Plague” View two: “HerniaContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?

Given that hernia surgery is one of the most “common surgeries” in the developed world and the citizens in the developed world have massive amounts of cash to squander on consumer goods why not create a global hotline assuaging and profiting from Hernia Fear? Where there is medical fear there is money to be madeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?

Your admission into the Hernia Club (Inguinal Division) commences from the day you emerged from the shower and noticed a bulge just above the waist. Membership ends upon your death. There is no initiation fee, annual charge or minimum bar and restaurant tab required. No need to worry about global inclusion and diversity. The preponderanceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!

Newbies to the Hernia Club are frequently barking up the wrong tree once they decide it is time for surgery and keenly focus on the surgery itself to the exclusion of the healing process. I will not review differing surgical approaches here as they are amply discussed on the internet. It is perfectly natural toContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date

Be aware there are several surgical options; open, laparoscopic and robotic. The method chosen may be totally your choice or it may be dictated by the type and complexity of the hernia. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the differing methods. You may have the option to do nothing or wait. But circumstances mayContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Educate Yourself: Terror or Truth?

I have previously mentioned in a perfect world there would be a comprehensive guidebook available to newly minted members of the Hernia Club. It could be that such a guidebook exists but even then, it is most likely written by a single author with a singular viewpoint. Perhaps you’d like a varied source of informationContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Educate Yourself: Terror or Truth?”