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My fellow M1 (XOMichelle) is right. There are lots of different kinds and there are things that can develop into complications and need to be checked out.
One thing is that you may not have to do the surgery right away. There was a recent study from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (where I'm going to med school) along with the Creighton Medical Center and a number of other hospitals across the country that was published in the Journal of the AMA about 2 or 3 months ago that said that there wasn't that much harm in taking a wait and see approach to hernias that weren't causing particular discomfort. The study was done on men, so it's hard to necessarily say that the same should be done for you, but given your recent surgery and obvious disdain for going under, it might be something to bring up with your doctor. Let him or her known that you aren't thrilled about the idea of more surgery.
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