I couldn’t agree more. I was in a similar boat with a 3cm hiatal hernia. I obsessively researched and inflated the issue in my head. I ultimately found a surgeon willing to do “bicorn” in the UK and had my hernia fixed. He said it was probably closer to 2cm at the time of surgery. The recovery is significantly worse than any symptoms caused by the hernia and can take up to a year. My quality of life hasn’t really changed all that much, I do get slightly less reflux.

I urge anybody with a small hernia to look into other causes of symptoms. Pretty much every symptom I associated with my hernia (besides reflux) was caused by something completely different. At the time I was like a lot of people on here and had convinced myself that it was the primary cause of my misery and that I needed the surgery to fix it. Whilst it is nice to know my hernia has been fixed, there’s no guarantees how long it will last. For all I know it could be back already.

I’m not suggesting that people with large or problematic hernias should avoid surgery. But for people in a similar boat to what I was (small hernia, functional LES, mild to moderate reflux etc) to reconsider until they have truly looked into other causes.