Can you help me with my Hernia.

Hi. Sorry to hear about your injury. It sounds atypical in many ways of what I have heard of hernia. Not in the sense of the pain but in its suddeness and severity. Also, I've never experienced any stomach pain with groin (inguinal) hernia but perhaps it's radiating? Did you engage in some particularly strenous activity (moving furniture, etc.) before it happened?

I can say that while my first hernia was painless, I had moderate pain all through my mesh period, especially when bending down, etc. I then lugged a very heavy suitcase (my dumb) across continents and had a mesh repair failure (the mesh is still inside my body, but my doctor says it's not causing any harm). At that tdme I had a great deal of swelling and while I can't say either testicle itself hurt, the area around it did, due to the pressure. In fact, the pressure from the swelling made the whole groin area in general painful for a week or two. Resitng, and then light yoga relieved the swelling along with the sometimes cutting pain. I've had one flare up since then- again lugging something too heavy- but it was not as bad as the first time.

I don't know the physiology behind the swelling and pain; I just know in my case rest really helped, but it took a while. Now I'm very careful.

Feeling tired from any kind of trauma to the body is normal. Whether you will go on to have a repair soon or not I can't say- I'm sort of the odd man out here as I'm an advocate of watch and wait (like I said, I've already had one repair and I'm not anxious to have another on top of it if it didn't work the first time (and caused a good deal of stiffness and pain as well). Of course you will want to talk to your doc about it, but bear in my mind that most practioners want to do surgery right away regardless. Whatever your situation, I'd try to see if rest helps the swelling (if that's what is) and pain, and I'd get two medical opinions at least as well as reading about 'natural cures' on the Net. And i don't mean snake oil medicines or herbs but delicate physical therapy (I like yoga myself). I also believe that 'cure' is a misnomer and 'maintenence through physicial therepy' would be a better description. Whatever you choose to do, you have my support and best of luck to you!

No it is definitely not normal.  How was your hernias diagnosed?   Nausea, swollen stomach and pain can be signs that one or both hernias have become incarcerated and or strangulated, which means the blood supply is being cut off from whatever organ is being pushed up into the "hole".  I would see a doctor immediately. 

Thanks yiayia, good point.

If you had bowel strangulation you would not be writing in these forums; you'd probably be desperatly begging to go the emergency room! Incarceration could, or would rather, produce abdominal pain among other symptoms. If the abdominal pain/nausea goes away you would not be suffering incareration but the only way to 'see' for sure is with a CT.

If the stomach pain continues I'd definitely go see the doc to see what's up with the pipes. Incarceration must be quite unpleasant to live with. I also would think it a precursor to strangulation but all the strangulation cases I've read about so far seem to happen suddenly.

Not to sound scary, most of us don't experience these things, but some do. You'll be fine I'm sure.