Hernia or "You tear your ball again?"

[PilotMan]

The short of the short is I had a physical today. All the potentially bad stuff was alright, but the stunner was finding out I have a hernia. The Dr. said it's possible I've had it since birth, and that right now it's small. He wants me to see a surgeon for it, and honestly, I can't say it's all that high on my list of things I'd like to do.

Anyone else have any experience with surgery and the recovery? The whole idea of it is making me a little light headed.

Is this board getting old or what?

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I had an umbilical hernia that needed repair (innie turned to an outie) and the surgeon found one of the inguinal ones too. It was small, so no need for surgery.

After recovering from the umbilical surgery I got serious about losing weight. Dropped 30 lbs. Started noticing that when I would work out a bit I was REALLY feeling the burn in my groin & abs. I'm talking two days later. Great workout? Nope. Tore the damn hernia. Got to the point in a month where walking was uncomfortable.

The good news is that after a couple weeks of hell you kinda normalize. Less than a month later I moved, doing most of it myself. You are aware of it, but as long as you don't do anything stupid like take a job in a warehouse (did it!) and do a lot of walking you should be fine.

I doubt with it a small hernia they will do surgery. They'll just keep an eye on it. And wait for the groin-bomb to go off!

[PilotMan]

Alright, so now that I know it's there, I can totally feel it. Never felt it before, never worried about it before, but not now!

[Rizon]

I had a hernia operation as a newborn. Since I can't remember it I guess it went well.

[lcjjdnh]

I had a hernia my senior year of college. Surgery was pretty painful--and it still occasionally hurts today--but much less annoying (and safer) than having an actual hernia. Apparently there is a mesh patch option that's a bit less invasive (and thus less painful), but my doctor recommended against for me because I was young and he wasn't sure about the long-term effects of it.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

lcjjdnh... does the scar ever tone down?

[MacroGuru]

I can't tell you about a hernia op, but i can tell you about a testicular torsion op...

[lcjjdnh]

lcjjdnh... does the scar ever tone down?

Yeah, it does. You could still tell it's there knowing it's there, but probably wouldn't notice it if you didn't, if that makes sense.

[BYU 14]

I can't tell you about a hernia op, but i can tell you about a testicular torsion op...

That just sounds beyond painful.

[MacroGuru]

That just sounds beyond painful.

8th grade summer....2nd most painful "injury" I have ever had...