ABSTRACT
The concept of sutureless mesh as well as light weight mesh came into play because of inguinodynia. Thisstudy was chosen most importantly to determine the post-operative persisting chronic pain after the use ofsutureless mesh. Data was collected from patients attending Govt. Medical College & Hospital, Jammu OPD,admitted in the department of surgery that underwent sutureless mesh hernioplasty for inguinal hernias. Thesepatients were followed up at 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months and 6 months for postoperative pain, any recurrenceor development of complications. In this study, 40 patients having inguinal hernia were taken. 38 (95%) weremales and 2 (5%) were females. The age of the patients ranged between 30 to 80 years with mean age of54.53±14.88 years. Post-operative pain was studied according to VISUAL ANALOG SCALE scoring, out of10. Mean post-operative pain score after 3 days was 2.70±1.16, which decreased to 0.85± 1.10 at 3 weeks(68.52% decrease) and after 3 months it was 0.30±0.72 (with an 88.89% decrease). There were no othercomplications. The study concluded that the use of self-fixating mesh in open inguinal hernia repair is asimple, safe, rapid and effective option and is associated with low post-operative pain.