If I had given myself a hernia, would I know it?

[sho'nuff]

hernias are bad. any doctor if there's one here, will tell you.

 

[HORNS]

I have a friend who was doing yoga while smoking a joint. He was in some pose and started coughing - then he felt an intense pain and looked down to see his scrotum full of intestine. This freaked him out so much that he passed out - alone in the house except for his 3 year-old son. When he woke up, his son was crying beside him.

He got onto the computer to look up what he had, so he decided that the best thing to do was get into his inversion machine/rack, turn upside down to let gravity help, and started squeezing his intestines out of his nutsack and back into his abdominal cavity. He then cut a Nerf football in half and sewed it to an ACE wrap - this was his device to wrap around to keep the intestines pushed back in so it could heal up.

True story.

 

[Hard2Fit]

This thread delivers.

 

[mikej77]

I have had two hernias. The last one occurred about two years ago while doing squats. I felt a small pain and then noticed a lump a couple of days later. No big deal, I went in for day surgery and left the hospital about four hours later. I opted for the open surgery because I heard that there is a much higher reoccurrence rate with the laproscopic surgery. Aside from two weeks of pretty severe pain, I still think the worst part was having to shave half of my pubes off, what a fun treat that was. I tried to get the nurses to do it but there were no takers.

 

[HEWSINATOR]

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

hernias are bad. any doctor if there's one here, will tell you.

Hmm, I was under the impression of quite the opposite. I was made aware of the fact that there could be some complications (strangulation) but was told that it is actually "elective" surgery to get it fixed. Of course, there is the pain.

 

[rxcats]

I developed an inguinal hernia when I was a pre-teen. I suspect it was lifting large bags of popcorn kernels at my dad's movie theatre; I used to pop the popcorn there as a kid. I rarely had any pain associated with it, but occasionally would get a dull ache. The hernia was essentially a loop of bowel that would commute from my abdomen to my scrotum. Sometimes it was not noticeable at all and at other times it looked like I had a 3rd testicle. I finally had it diagnosed and surgically corrected when I was in Israel (college). I was in the hospital for several days. The post-op was MUCH more painful than the hernia ever was. It was then that I further developed my fondness for narcotics!