How do you know if you have a hernia? I just noticed a lump on my (sizeable) belly thats about 1-2 inches above my belly button and about an inch around. It's hard, and REALLY sensitive and hurts all the way across my stomach when I push on it. How can I tell if I split my gut?

:confused:

TIA

Originally posted by Erich In AZ
How can I tell if I split my gut?

:confused:

TIA


Zygotes?

place slight pressure on it and see if it expands/contracts with breathing and/or a cough
and tell me what it does

It feels like it pushes out a little when I cough, but I really don't know if that's just the muscles contracting or not. Breathing doesn't seem to make a difference, but it seems to change when I lean forward or backward. :confused:

Sounds like you may have one. I have had 2..was kinda fun to play with them..pushing it in and letting it pop out :) Having the surgery makes you somewhat appreciate a woman who's had a c section.

Anyone else in your family have them? My doc told me they were hereditary. Funny thing is I had mine in my 20s...my dad didn't get one till after I did when he was in his 60s

could be a bunch of shat.
gas bubble in small intestine : painful and would cause pressure on muscle wall ( if any :flipoff2: ) would dissapate in 12-24 hours
muscular knot (once again if any :D ) same deal aplly heat and take motin to relieve swelling

anything longer than a day or so GET TO A FAWKING DR and get an Xray

My neighbour has an upper hernia right now.It looks like he has a baseball right above his bellybutton stuck in his stomach.

I've had a lower hernia from moving ~400 pound pallets with another person while having 2500ml of fluid in me for dialysis.

Reeeeaaaallllly sucked,it felt like someone was squeezing my nuts ALL day long.The only relief was to lie on my back or put pressure on it.Waited 6 weeks to get the surgical repair done.


Go to your Doc. He'll know right away and the fix is really easy.

damnit! I still have a yard of sand sitting in front of my house that needs to move to the back yard. I guess I shouldn't be lifting too much until I know huh? I'll keep an eye on it and see if it gets better before monday if not, I guess I'll go see the doc. Been meaning to anyways. I need to get on Zoloft to help cope with this place a little better !

:D :flipoff2:

$hit! The lump is still there (only goes away when I lay down) and getting pretty damn sore, so I call the doc this morning. The lady on the phone says the soonest anyone can see me is the 4th of August! :eek:

WTF? They expect me to walk around for another week with the possibility that my fawking intestine is hanging out of my fawking stomach before they will even LOOK at it!? I finally pushed her in to agreeing to ask the doc what he wants to do, and she's supposed to call me back 'sometime today'. :rolleyes:

I fawking hate dealing with docs offices!

I think they will have to amputate...at the neck!!!:D


Who is your ins. through?

If it goes away when laying down it's sounding more like hernia to me.

Now...quit being a fawking whiner :flipoff2: Doctors told me both times with my hernia that when I scheduled surgery was entirely up to me. As the one doctor said "it's fine to walk around years with it, only problem is eventually you WILL need surgery on it cause it WIll strangulate and they always do that at 3 AM on a Sunday" :D

He also told me that straining to take a shit is more likely to cause one then lifting :) So suck it up for a week and then see doc

That's a bunch of crap.

What you have is Abdominal PokeeOuteeTosis. To temporarily alleviate the symptoms, there are five or six expensive prescription medicines, which are routinely prescribed. Two six-packs of Bud will work just as well.

Drink two six-packs of Bud every day, until you can get up the nerve for the "DIY" repair. When you're ready to fix the problem, do the following:

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Down a pint of Jim Beam
Wait until you can't feel your lips.
Lay on a "blood-proof" floor, like linoleum.
Have 4 or 5 strong friends hold you down.
Have another VERY TRUSTED friend scrub the area with some more Jim Beam, and cut the area of the PokeeOuteeTosis, from bottom to top.
Squeeze out all the "bad stuff" in there.
Close it back up, with Super Glue.
Wait 10 minutes, and you'll be ready for the Hammer Throw at the local Highland Games.
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Good Luck! :D

Originally posted by Bobzooki
That's a bunch of crap.

What you have is Abdominal PokeeOuteeTosis. To temporarily alleviate the symptoms, there are five or six expensive prescription medicines, which are routinely prescribed. Two six-packs of Bud will work just as well.

Drink two six-packs of Bud every day, until you can get up the nerve for the "DIY" repair. When you're ready to fix the problem, do the following:

[list=1]
Down a pint of Jim Beam
Wait until you can't feel your lips.
Lay on a "blood-proof" floor, like linoleum.
Have 4 or 5 strong friends hold you down.
Have another VERY TRUSTED friend scrub the area with some more Jim Beam, and cut the area of the PokeeOuteeTosis, from bottom to top.
Squeeze out all the "bad stuff" in there.
Close it back up, with Super Glue.
Wait 10 minutes, and you'll be ready for the Hammer Throw at the local Highland Games.
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Good Luck! :D

Calling friends as we speak!

:flipoff2:

Just go to a walk-in clinic and have a Dr. take a quick look.
If it is a hernia he's going to know right away.

Originally posted by R O
Just go to a walk-in clinic and have a Dr. take a quick look.
If it is a hernia he's going to know right away.

The problem is, a walk-in clinic here takes a few hours waiting in the lobby to get in to see anyone. I always thought we had a specific Dr so that THEY would be the ones actually caring for your health. If I wanted to be treated by a stranger every time, I'd skip the whole specifying a doc thing :rolleyes: :mad:

I promise you you will not die between now and the 4th







.....of the hernia anyway :flipoff2:

Step 1 place two fingers over a testicle, push up and cough.
Step 2 Repeat with the other testicle.
Step 3 Now stick two fingers up your butt and wiggle them around.




















If you liked step 3 you are :rainbow:


Now you have already done what the doctor is going to do and charge you $100 to tell you something you already know. :flipoff2:

Sounds like a hernia to me, I hope you don't have any plans for the next 6 weeks.

Originally posted by SilverZuk
Step 1 place two fingers over a testicle, push up and cough.
Step 2 Repeat with the other testicle.
Step 3 Now stick two fingers up your butt and wiggle them around.



If you liked step 3 you are :rainbow:


Now you have already done what the doctor is going to do and charge you $100 to tell you something you already know. :flipoff2:

Sounds like a hernia to me, I hope you don't have any plans for the next 6 weeks.

What I'm looking at is an Epigastric hernia that's above the navel, not in the groin. I probably won't die before the 4th, but I will have to lay on teh couch and do nothing. That's taking a week out of life when we are trying to get our house ready to sell. It just really pisses me off that docs are able to blow you off like this. The fawking thing is starting to get pretty damn sore. What do people do when they have a job that requies them to lift stuff, but the doc can't see them for a week? Do they continue to lift crap until the doc gets around to putting them on light duty? :confused: :rolleyes:

My point is you don't need to lay around and do nothing. My hernia was below naval and, wasn't the balls though. After the operation you WILL be laying around tho..amazing how many things you do with your stomach muscles

Originally posted by Joe_W
My point is you don't need to lay around and do nothing. My hernia was below naval and, wasn't the balls though. After the operation you WILL be laying around tho..amazing how many things you do with your stomach muscles

Do they take away the nookie? Can you still rub one out (Not vigorously I would imagine). Fawk! This sucks! :D :flipoff2:

I would just go to the emergency room late at night.

That is what I would do. If you go during the week they probably won't be swamped.

Last time I was there, I was in and out in about 45 minutes including paperwork.

Originally posted by Erich In AZ


Do they take away the nookie? Can you still rub one out (Not vigorously I would imagine). Fawk! This sucks! :D :flipoff2:

Far more information than anyone will want to read I'm sure........









2nd hernia I got an infected tube or something in my balls..so one blew up tyo about a baseball :eek: Docs advice was that time would heal it and "flushing the pipes" would speed it along. 1st time I was ever prescribed sex :D Unfortunately the wife was long down the road to nutville (OTHER kind of nut) by that time so sex life was pretty dismal

I'm going to quote your own post here:

Far more information than anyone will want to read I'm sure........

:flipoff2: :D

Originally posted by Joe_W


Far more information than anyone will want to read I'm sure........

2nd hernia I got an infected tube or something in my balls..so one blew up tyo about a baseball :eek: Docs advice was that time would heal it and "flushing the pipes" would speed it along. 1st time I was ever prescribed sex :D Unfortunately the wife was long down the road to nutville (OTHER kind of nut) by that time so sex life was pretty dismal