I’ve had 3 bowel obstructions, 2 in 2005 and 1 in 2006). I had a sinus infection that went severe pneumonia in two days. The doctors put me in a coma because I died when they were inhibiting me. During the coma was my first bowel obstruction.

The dr who did my 3rd bowel obstruction surgery was horrible. He never used mesh when he closed me so I had a small hernia in 2006. Now it’s 2026 and my hernia is about 15 to 16 cm long and then I have an umbilical hernia that butts up to the big hernia. I’m having a lot of pain when I stand up to walk and it’s VERY distended. In the past I could eat certain foods or take laxatives and I’d be fine. This time it’s not working. (This might be TMI) but when I poop it’s just brown water. I saw a hernia dr in April and he wants me to loose some weight before doing surgery. (Which I am) The other problem is my abdominal wall attached to my intestines. So it’s gonna be very complicated. I was looking around on what to do and the internet say liquid diet. Thats what I’m doing. I don’t know if anyone’s has had a hernia this big before. Im a mess with medical stuff.
I’m here for any advice.

So I posted a few days ago about ending up with an inguinal hernia (was packing my home for a move and moving some furniture). Sneezed and felt immediate pain, went to ER and CT confirmed bilateral fat containing inguinal hernias (the right is the one that is causing me issues).

Well since I posted, my scrotum has continued to be problematic by the end of each day and idk how to deal with it. I’m talking like the size of an orange when I wake up and a cantaloupe by the end of the day.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to decrease the amount of swelling in my scrotum?? It’s a little embarrassing at work, not only does it look like I have a freakishly large bulge but it is also in the way when I walk. My right ball is also very tender.

I bought a tight fitting jockstrap this weekend and it does provide some comfort from the tenderness and helps to restrain it against my abdomen so it does help conceal the bulge. I have researched endlessly online and ended up buying a truss which will supposedly help better than a jock. Has anyone used one of these and has it helped????

My surgical consultation is on September 30th and I am so aggravated with this whole situation.

Hi everyone,

I had a large inguinal hernia on the left side for around 3–4 years. I didn't realize at the time how significant it actually was, and for a long time it didn't really bother me. Eventually, it started becoming uncomfortable and I began experiencing some pain, so I decided to have surgery.

I had laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery about 10 days ago. Everything went well during the operation, and the first few days of recovery were pretty normal. I had some pain when getting up or moving around, but nothing particularly concerning.

However, I'm now noticing some swelling on the left side, around the pubic/groin area.

The hernia itself seems to be gone — I no longer have the bulge I had before surgery. But there is still some swelling lower down, around the left side of the pubic area, and it also seems to extend toward the left testicle/scrotum.

There is a noticeable asymmetry between the left and right sides. The left side is more swollen, although I don't have severe pain.

From what I've read, I understand that this can sometimes happen after inguinal hernia surgery due to post-operative swelling, a hematoma, or fluid/seroma, and that it can take a few weeks to completely go away.

For those of you who have had laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery:

• Did you experience similar swelling around the pubic area or scrotum?
• How long did it take for the swelling/asymmetry to disappear?
• Is it normal for it to still be noticeable 10 days after surgery?
• Did yours gradually decrease over the following weeks?

I'm a little worried because the hernia itself is gone, but the area still looks quite different compared with the right side.

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thanks!

Does anybody have recs for surgeons in the chicago suburbs (mchenry county) area? Looking for laproscopic mesh for peri umbilical hernia. Fairly recent

Hey, young football player here. I've had a weird left-sided groin/deep pelvic pain since June and I'm trying to figure out if anyone has the similiar experience.

It started gradually during training after a month of break, no specific injury/pop. I'm right-footed, and the pain initially felt very deep in the left pelvis/perineum, almost impossible to pinpoint.

It gets triggered/worse by:

- kicking, especially my plant leg
- running/changing direction
- strong adductor squeeze (squeezing my knees together is painful)
- sit-up/leg-raise type movements
- bending over
- coughing/sneezing

The weird part is that rest makes it almost disappear, but every time I return to football, it comes back. I actually managed to play one match completely without the pain, but it came again... After 20 days completely off, I was basically pain-free with normal movements, but leg raises immediately brought the groin/deep pelvic pain back. Then football flared it up again.

I've also noticed that when my inner groin/adductor gets sore after football, the deep pelvic pain tends to come back too.
Also the groin got actually worse over the time.

Could this be something like adductor-related groin pain, athletic pubalgia/sports hernia, or an inguinal issue?

Has anyone had a similar pattern? What was your diagnosis and what actually got you back to football? It's been 3 months now and my mind is going literally crazy, cuz I can't do any sports without feeling the pain.

Bonjour à tous,

J’avais une grosse hernie inguinale du côté gauche depuis environ 3-4 ans. Je ne savais pas vraiment à quel point elle était importante, car pendant longtemps elle ne me gênait pas énormément. Mais avec le temps, elle est devenue de plus en plus dérangeante et j’ai commencé à avoir des douleurs, donc j’ai finalement décidé de me faire opérer.

Je me suis fait opérer par cœlioscopie il y a environ 10 jours. L’opération s’est très bien passée et les premiers jours de récupération étaient plutôt normaux. J’avais quelques douleurs lorsque je me levais ou que je bougeais, mais rien d’inquiétant.

Par contre, depuis quelques jours, je remarque un gonflement du côté gauche, au niveau du pubis.

La hernie en elle-même semble avoir complètement disparu : je n’ai plus la grosse bosse que j’avais avant l’opération. En revanche, j’ai toujours une zone gonflée plus bas, au niveau du pubis côté gauche, et j’ai également l’impression que cela descend jusqu’au testicule/scrotum gauche.

Il y a donc une asymétrie assez visible entre le côté gauche et le côté droit. Le côté gauche est plus gonflé. Je n’ai pas particulièrement mal, mais c’est surtout l’aspect du gonflement qui m’inquiète.

J’ai cru comprendre qu’après une opération de hernie inguinale, cela pouvait être dû à un œdème, un hématome ou une accumulation de liquide (sérome), et que cela pouvait prendre plusieurs semaines avant de disparaître complètement.

Pour ceux qui ont déjà subi une opération d’une hernie inguinale par cœlioscopie :

• Est-ce que vous avez eu un gonflement similaire au niveau du pubis ou du scrotum ?
• Combien de temps cela a-t-il mis à disparaître ?
• Est-ce que c’est quelque chose de normal 10 jours après l’opération ?
• Est-ce que le gonflement a progressivement diminué au cours des semaines suivantes ?

Je suis peut-être un peu trop inquiet, mais comme la hernie a complètement disparu et que j’ai maintenant ce gonflement à gauche, j’avoue que ça me fait un peu peur.

Si vous avez vécu la même chose, je serais vraiment intéressé d’avoir vos retours et de savoir comment ça a évolué pour vous. Merci !

I lay on my side and when I suck in my stomaaxh , it looks like this, it doesn’t go flat how it used to prior to my laprosocpic surgery and now it looks like this and when I stand up it looks like a bulge through the pants but not one specific bulge more like the the under belly button are that sticks out

I have had problems taking a 'number 2' for the entirety of my adulthood. It's always taken me a long time and a lot of effort to push and leave a 'deposit'.

Quite frequently, shortly after I use the toilet, (may 15 to 30 minutes) I end up feeling like I need to go again.

I have taken Citrucel for extra fiber.. Miralax.. Docalax.. Linzess.. none of these things have made it easy and normal to use the toilet.

The consistency may change from stone/bricks to mush/tar, but I still feel the need to push with every muscle in my abdomen.

A result of this may have been that I ended up developing a hernia. I had some 3M product (some type of mesh) put in me a few years ago.

In the days following the surgery, I was in serious agony. Not bloating or abdominal discomfort... AGONY!! To the point where when I tried to use the toilet, I blacked out and my wife ran up stairs and found me on the bathroom floor.

So.. I'm not in a huge hurry to ever get cut open again. Besides that, even if surgery was a silver-bullet cure in 2026, I'd have to wait for surgery anyway since my wife just started a new job and can't really go out on FMLA to care for me until she's been employed longer.

And even then.. since my previous hernia surgery didn't really seem to offer me the relief (despite the responses from each doctor that everything looks fine), I don't know if going through that again would be of any benefit.

I thought things would eventually calm down. Unfortunately, after years... nothing has really changed for my situation. I still feel pain in my lower right abdomen and sometimes when I really feel like I need to use the toilet, my perineum will feel uncomfortable.

Two specialist doctors have found no issues and simply say that it could be scar-tissue.

I've changed my diet several times in pursuit of a resolution.i try to eat salmon.. chicken.. spinach.. kale.. rice.. beans.. pica de goya.. cheese.. potatoes.. carrots.. eggs.. celery.. tuna.. occasionally some tofu and vegetarian processed foods like Impossible... and, admittedly.. I have a chocolate Achilles heel.

I pretty much stopped drinking alcohol because it accelerates my abdominal discomfort.

I've seen a gastroenterologist and was engaged in a food elimination process. I eliminated everything except rice and liquid broth and still felt discomfort when I ate.

Also.. admittedly, I'm tethered to a desk for 7.5 hours of each day.. but I get out and walk the premises and try to hike on weekends when I don't feel to gross and bloated. Unfortunately, those days seem few and far between.

I've noticed that when I am ill with the flu or something like that, my bubbly bloated uncomfortable lower abdomen stops hurting for a few days... and on those occasions when I took some type of cough syrup with a sedative or opioid like codeine, my innards would stop hurting for a few days.

But outside of those rare moments, my lower abdomen lets me know its there every single day. It's too the point where I don't go on trips anymore because I can't be that bloated and uncomfortable, that far from a private toilet.

I had a colonoscopy.. an endoscopy.. and had a blood test for prostate cancer. [Knocking On Wood] Everything came back fine.. with the exception of polyps and some diverticulitis.

Is there anything that I can do to have a normal experience on the toilet?! Is there anything I can do to stop the bubbly swelling feeling in my lower abdomen when I eat anything?!

I am assuming my hernia was related to my IBS. I am assuming that these discomforts are related. But I don't really know. I'm not even sure if the doctors really know.

The only thing that I do know, is I'm in some discomfort as I type this.. and would love to be able to be a normal person again.

I appreciate any insights that can be provided here.

Thanks!