Holy FUCKING SHIT! Think I might have a HERNIA! PLEASE HELP!!

[40butpumpin]

Doctor, GIMME THE MESH!

Right on brother! Just makin' sure, I'm sure you understand.

 

[mlkmgr]

seriously, you can still lift while having a hernia. you only run the risk of making the tear bigger. i continued to lift and made my hernia about twice the size it started to be. made no difference to the surgeon. small or large he was getting paid the same either way. i had two inguinal hernias. one on each side of my groin. both were corrected with mesh plugs. have had no problems with either spot. the recovery time for me was longer. not sure if was because of location of hernia or what. i suppose every case is different.

 

[40butpumpin]

40butpumpin, Fortunetely I have very good health insurance,and didn't have to pay a cent for it. However, this should be covered, the mesh procedure is about 10yrs old,and drastically has reduced the # of re-occurences.

My doctor told me at the time he had 1 out of over 2,500 patients that had a reoccurence in the same area. It actually makes it stronger than the original abdominal wall. Keep in mind i had what is known as a inguinal hernia which is in the groin area.

A co-worker had 4 operations on the same area, when i told him to look into the mesh procedure,so far he hasn't had any problems....

Man that's good news. My doc told me just last month I have a slight hernia in the groin area. But I've been lifting like a madman in spite of it. He said he's gonna have to check it every once in a while to see how it progresses but he said surgery is definite down the road. But I've known about the mesh for some time but at the time it was not covered by a lot of insurances. I guess now they've had such success with it they were just overwhelmed. I did know it was THE way to go for atheletes and the like becasue of the minimal recovery time and low incidence of reoccurance.

 

[Silent Method]

Re: Originally posted by SofaGeorge

lumpoma

Yeah, from what I can find, lumpoma is slang for a benign growth of unknown origin. Thanks to SofaGeorge for making me sweat a little harder though...

 

[SofaGeorge]

Re: Re: Originally posted by SofaGeorge

Yeah, from what I can find, lumpoma is slang for a benign growth of unknown origin. Thanks to SofaGeorge for making me sweat a little harder though...

Lumpomas are not a big deal. They are fatty tumors. Everybody has them. The kind of hernia you are describing is very rare. Usually a guy gets a lumpoma on his abs and thinks it is a hernia.

Stop sweating. Go to a county clinic if you are broke and get it checked out.

 

[Silent Method]

Re: Re: Re: Originally posted by SofaGeorge

Lumpomas are not a big deal. They are fatty tumors. Everybody has them. The kind of hernia you are describing is very rare. Usually a guy gets a lumpoma on his abs and thinks it is a hernia.

Stop sweating. Go to a county clinic if you are broke and get it checked out.

I'm fairly convinced this is an umbilical or paraumbilical hernia. According to the info I'm finding on the net, they are not uncommon at all. I've played around with this thing nonstop now for a day and I can feel tissue squeeze out of a crevice in my abs when proper "pressure" is exerted, and slide back through the crevice when I push.

I hope you are right and it turns out to be a fatty tumor, but I doubt it.

Good call on the doc though. I need to find some cash fast.

 

[liftsiron]

Rupture or tear mean the same thing, the medical term for either is hernia. Sofa George lipoma is the more commonly used medical term, its means fatty tumor, they are always harmless but often need to removed for cosmetic or other reasons. I do not believe that this is the case with SM, I think that he has a very slight hernia, from the information given.

 

[icelandic]

You can probably find a family medicine physician who can simply advise you if you do indeed have a hernia, tell him your insurance situation and he may not even charge you. Until then, you should immediately cease any excercise that creates intra-abdominal pressure (i.e. just about everything you can do in the weightroom).

For what it is worth, an umbilcal hernia is farily common and rarely requires surgery. There is a very easy test for this: pretend you are doing a sit-up, about midway through the range of motion, feel directly below your belly button, if you can feel a small gap in the abdominal muscle, then that is what is known as an umbilcal hernia. This is a congenital condition and is typically left alone unless the gap is very large in which cae there is a risk of the intestine becoming pinched.

An inguinal hernia is the very serious kind. The most dangerous aspect to this injury is the chance of tissue or the intestine becoming pinned between the muscle tear and becoming gangrenous. This situation is life-threatening and requires emergency surgery within 24 hours. The mesh method is gaining favor by most american surgeons as it drastically reduces the chance of recurrence. The mesh is typcally a sterile kevlar composite. For more information on this procedure, read this (requires adobe acrobat)
http://www.uclh-herniaclinic.co.uk/uclhmesh.pdf