How Will I Get Rid Of My Hernia? Without Surgery!: Detailed Instructions

FUGGEDABOUDIT! If you have definitely have a hernia? You're having surgery or you'll be MISERABLE until you do. These people selling books, poultices, pills are FOS. Have your surgery or STFU. Take care.

It's to early to say if it will cure my hernia. overall the advice on diet has been beneficial, it's a big plus that the occasional pain is much improve and I no longer have to stop what I'm doing and lie down for a while. On new diet bowel movements have now become much less frequent and have lost about a stone in weight although my weight was about right before. Only been on the new diet fully for about 2 week [initially mixing old and new diet ] . That's as far as I've got up to now. there is advice on putting on the home made truss but this comes later. you will need to get positive results from the diet first. Overall feel positive about the book.

I would never give this five stars - except for the fact, of what the subject matter is. The book is somewhat amateurist, which is probably means the content is not "professional" - a good thing. There is an uncanny scarcity of any "scientific" or "medical" information, data, wisdom. advice, etc. on any alternative to hernia surgery. This writer is from Germany and the book looks like his life's work. It is not fancy, and the translation is often flawed, but I give him lots of credit for doing it at all. Obviously not a "get rich quick" book venture.A good idea in the book, is his "beginning" instructions on how to make and wear, a "wrap" truss or "turban" truss. The author/translator calls it a "scarf" - 'wrap' and 'turban' are my words - they are not the author's words. It is flexible, moving with the body, and fully adjustable. One must be innovative however, in wrapping and knotting the truss.I found that a "necktie knot works the best for me - only it goes around the waist the way a necktie goes around the neck. The knot goes over the bottom pubic bone, to above it, and the pad goes down to, and stops, at that pubic bone. This kind of knot gives you two pieces going downward (like the two pieces of a necktie) and I wrap one around each leg, then tying around/to the waste wrap. I use 8" velcro straps to keep the knots in place or bind parts of the wrap together.But, how to make a traditional-folk knitted "wrap" type truss? I cannot knit (I really tried) and could not learn fast enough anyway, so I got knitted fabric, and cut long narrow strips of knitted fabric from it (to use as described in the book.) I bought online, undyed organic 100% cotton knit material ("ribbed", the long way, easier on the eyes, to cut and hem, when marking the cut) and then hemming the edge with a stretchable, flexible stitch, like a zig-zag stitch. I got 4 yards for $50 (for organic) and can make a few or more trusses from that, much faster than knitting. It needs to be about 10-12 feet long. One layer is too thin. Three or four layers of knit fabric sewn together and quilted might be firm enough and thick enough with medium-light knit fabric.. I did four layers.Here is a good link: [...] sorry. It was removed. Look up "herniaremediation" dot org, or "the hernia coach" (same website) on a search engine. I tried to publish the URL of the link here, but the programmed Amazon blog nanny obviously must have automatically replaced the URL address with "[...]"I used the search engine duckduckgo dot com, because it doesn't track you and does not prioritize paid listers quite as aggressively-commercially as bing and google. So you can find free information easier, more to the point, on the first pages.When you find "The Hernia Coach" make sure you are on "second lesson" or "volume 2" then scroll down to a link "VIDEO: Improvised Hernia Belt." There you will find a video of the personalized truss created in this book, probably by the author. But, it is in German language.We should live in a society where we can exchange such information freely. We had a brief honeymoon in the "age of information" on the web, before we realized we still live in a political-economic-military-industrial "dark age" of information, controlled by those in power [i.e.: the scarcity of media exposure of Bernie Sander and Kasich, etc.] which includes health care information and statistics. Like the capital markets, "the game is rigged" in favor of the interest of those in power. Even the search engines play this game. The Sanders and Kasich campaigns, and the corporate media's treatment of them, is a textbook example, a sign of the times. Doctors are innocent pawns in this information game, except when they are not innocent in the manner in which they practice..This author's compelling personal story in the book, alone, was inspiring. He also makes the major point about intestinal problems as a major factor in the chronic cause of hernias, which makes a lot more sense than "heavy lifting" which may be when the intestines finally break through, after months of pressure. Remember when doctors thought peptic ulcers were caused by stress? Then someone, in 1982, discovered chronic peptic/gastric ulcers were caused by the Helicobacter pylori bacteria.However, I will agree that "heavy lifting" and other heavy activities, like gardening and some sports, can worsen an existing hernia, or even make it a life-threatening incarcerated intestinal hernia, but the cause of why hernias develop in some people but not in other people, has never been fully investigated. We just fix' em, as it were..The book's only negative: The "anti gas" (my term) diet, exactly as written, , may not work for everyone, per se. In fact, it may work for very few people :-} I don't think the author mentions constipation, which is even worse for a hernia, IMO. I think he errs in asserting that his diet is universally applicable, without condition, that being this book's only real flaw.However, he does suggest some valuable and beneficial eating/drinking information and methods. There is much truth in the author's assertion that all grain foods and most "starch" carbos can directly cause intestinal gas, and need to be avoided or reduced [by some people.] It is surprisingly unmistakably true in my own case, that only certain gluten-free grains, prepared a certain way, can be eaten, without producing intestinal gas.The bottom line is, everybody's gastrointestinal system is slightly different, and every person has to evolve a diet that works for himself, a diet that minimizes intestinal gas and constipation. The author offers valuable eating/drinking suggestions to start.From reading product reviews for trusses, I was surprised that some people got disgusted with the orthopedic trusses they bought and used an ace bandage roll in very much the same way. I have not tried this. It may work well, but may have rubber, synthetcs, etc. in its content, and may accumulate perspiration. Don't know.My way of wrapping of the truss around my body, varies a little bit from the author's instructions (i.e.: I'm trying it UNDER, NOT OVER the undergarment. It is easier to poop without rmoving it.) It will improve day to day, as I try different "wraps." Everybody's waist and hernia location may be slightly different. There is a learning curve. Your truss wrapping may not be exactly as the book (a good starting point) but unlike the conventional belt truss, this kind of truss offers an infinite varieties of adjustments, each of which does not necessarily conflict with each other adjustments, as belt trusses undoubtibly will do.My experience with conventional mass-produced belt trusses is that they are much to rigid, can insidiously shift and move, and loosen, and tighten again, often "dropping" the herniated intestine, and trapping it against the pelvic bone, without the wearer realizing it, a prelude to "strangulation" - an intestinal incarceration. An obvious flaw [in my opinion] of conventional trusses is the leg belt. It wraps around the leg on the same side of the hernia (the leg belt for left-side hernias wrap around left leg.) This is dangerous. It will "squeeze" your guts out towards the groin, where an indirect hernia will develop, in addition to your direct hernia. Indirect Hernias are 10 times more likely to "strangulate" (needing emergency surgery) than a direct hernia.A proper leg "wrap" would (of a left-side hernia) should be routed around the opposite (right) leg, subtly squeezing your guts away from the groin side (and covering the lower inguinal opening, where an indirect hernia would emerge) which is how a proper "wrap" type truss is used.But truss makers want to sell their products, and a belt truss is more "comfortable" with a same-side-as-the-hernia-pad leg band. This makes for good initial 4-star and 5-star customer reviews of conventional trusses, when the customers first put it on. Naturally some doctors are correct when they say an orthopedic [belt] truss can make an inguinal hernia worse. It becomes obvious why, when an unfortunate patient gets an indirect hernia in addition to a direct hernia. Some truss-makers' legal disclaimers on packaging (suggesting that surgery is inevitable) would seem humorously legalistic, were they not a de facto prediction of the consequences from wearing a conventional truss, over the long term.The author maintains: If you have not first addressed the intestinal gas problem (and constipation issues, as I've mentioned) - using ANY kind of truss, would be dangerous (even this knitted "wrap" kind of truss described in his book) because with your body in that condition, the outward hernia pressure is too great. In that condition, it is safest to use your hand to hold up (or hold in) your direct hernia (or just hold "in" an indirect hernia.) I admit, always using one hand to hold your hernia in, would require adjustments to your work routines and lifestyle. If you ever have hernia surgery, you will have to make adjustments to your work routines and lifestyle, anyway, unless you will have wanted to risk having more surgery in the future. What helps tremendously? Making a thick rectangular pad, 3 to 3.5" X 4 to 4.5" with 6-8 Layers of canvas, organic, undyed, unbleached, if available. It should be ridged and well-quilted, like a pot holder. This pad makes holding a hernia with your hand so much easier. Hold the pad with your hand over the hernia "triangle" area. I like the 1" wide thin cotton "belt" material, that I sewed around the perimeter of mine, but that's optional.My hernia started small, 4 years ago this September and caused no problems for a couple of years.. It worsened twice after antibiotic use, probably fron NOT taking ENOUGH probiotics during and after, another clue about gas and constipation being suspect. Last year in the spring 2015, after an antibiotic regimen, the pain started. By the end of summer, it was "hanging" and always painful when standing, and sometimes when sitting. I started wearing an "orthopedic" belt truss Fall 2015, and contimued life as usual, and the hernia got bigger and there was at least one more, an indirect hernia, before I knew it. That was six months ago (I bought four trusses on Amazon, which cost about $200 all together) and they worked well in the beginning, but the way they shifted and loosened, and tightened again, without my realizing it, was treacherous, made the hernia come loose, getting bigger and broke through muscle in a different spot. I had this book for months, before I decided to try it. I was really getting worried about an intestinal incarceration, a "strangulation" when I started following this book's solutions. That would require emergency surgery to avoid a deadly intestinal incarceration and necrosis.I agree with the author, that:(1) It is wise to realize that intestinal gas (and constipation) are among the two biggest enemies, when it comes to healing an inguinal hernia naturally;(2) It is unwise to depend on any kind of truss alone, especially a conventional truss (which I refuse to use any longer) until the intestinal issues are resolved (I was using my hands when standing up and sometimes when sitting up or lying up, while waiting to make a knit truss);(3) The author's truss "pad" design is simple but perfect in shape, but for me, the length and width could go another centimeter, according to my groin and hand size. I been using it with my hand, without a truss, until I can eliminate my intestinal gas.For $20, I got my moneys worth of information.

Some good info but may or may not really work. My guts had poked through my hernia and the doc and I had no way of knowing before surgery started, so this could not work for me-glad I gave up and did surgery or would have been in some real trouble

1) You can heal your hernia without surgery. 2) Obtain or create a flat pad truss and never allow your hernia to go unsupported to the point of bulging out for a couple months at least. I used a small circular piece of wood combined with a truss purchased on Amazon.3) Be conscious of and careful of your hernia, not straining it and protecting it in as many ways as possible and reasonable. So there were some very good points for those with some common sense. There was also a lot of nonsense about diet and other "filler" which detracts from the overall value of the book. However, if you just take away the three points mentioned you have a good chance of healing your hernia and the book could be well worth the price. It is something of an antidote to the misinformation coming from the medical industry.