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Right where that groin pain i've been mentioning is, just noticed it after i got out the shower, can't really see it when i'm lying down, but if stand up (and suck the belly in) it's clearly sticking out on the right side just above my knob. It doesn't really hurt when i lift, but does an hour or two afterwards, and hurts when i shit. :011:
bunnyluva
12-08-2006, 19:25
Off to docs for you mate, and no heaving lifting till you've seen him.
Goodluck with it, hope it's not too bad.
Phil
I will be lifting before i see the doc, that's one thing you can be sure of. I'm not actually registered with a doctor so will have to get that sorted first. Fairly certain it's an inguinal hernia, which means surgery, which means waiting lists...
ouch.......not another disruption
Aye, it's barely a year since the appendix, i'm going to have a ****ing abdomen littered with incisions
'If it hurts when you ****, shit and/or sneeze there's a good chance it's a hernia.' - My brutally honest doctor, 2005.
Congratulations, you've joined a very elite group.
BengDogg
12-08-2006, 22:26
yep high 5 tim, your yet another i c hernia boy, i still have my weird belly button lump so i qualify too, hope your ok though
What's happened with yours Rob, did you ever get the op?
And you Mart, have you had it diagnosed?
bunnyluva
12-08-2006, 22:41
So what's the story on how to avoid these hernias?
Ab work, lighter weight and more reps or what?
I don't want a lump sticking out of my belly :(
I haven't touched a weight in ages, but I think mine is pretty well healed. No operation was necessary.
Yours was alot worse than mine is from what i can remember you saying about it. I didn't know they could heal, infact everything i've read says that they can't? Where abouts was yours? Mine is real low
Mine is/was just below the bottom (left) of what is your 6-pack.
I don't know what you've been reading but I assure you a private* consultant is a little more clued up than you and I, so go see one and stop trying to work it out for yourself using the forum.
* Or NHS, it will just take 9 billion years to get to the top of a waiting list.
Alex (Big-AL)
13-08-2006, 07:20
Aye, it's barely a year since the appendix, i'm going to have a ****ing abdomen littered with incisions
Join the club mate, i had two different kinds of hernia, both near the groin, and the appendix, the scars don't notice that much after a few years.
AL
BengDogg
13-08-2006, 16:10
i never had mine diagnosed, i simply havnt got time to bleed lol
Well i went to the NHS walk in centre today, totally useless, the dr knew less than i did, but confirmed it is an inguinal hernia. Have to get my doctor to send a letter to a surgeon to confiurm it's a hernia and put me on teh 6-12 month waiting list, so the first step will be registering with a doctor i guess...
I aksed him about lifting in the mean time and he said "well i suppose it wouldn't be a good idea to go lifting very heavy weights, but light ones, and just try not to push it out" douchebag.
PikeKing
13-08-2006, 16:12
power pants?
I belive they call it a 'truss'
depends how hairy you are i guess
not very, put it this way, the lump ends at my wang
PikeKing
13-08-2006, 16:30
depends how hairy you are i guess
LMFAO
power pants
Made the alarming discovery last night that i can push the ****er back in, then brace my abdomen and it comes popping out like a turtle head! Off to see if i can register with a doc now....
Just read this dude. I hope you get it sorted soon as sounds painful.
Yeah I've just read this aswell mate, my thoughts are with your speedy recovery
LMFAO
power pants
mmmmm yummy! :042:
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/images/gore%20power%20pants.jpg
the block
14-08-2006, 17:53
thats what he wears when he's training anyway! (see any one of his training vids)
sorry to hear about this Narc. hope you get better soon mate
thats what he wears when he's training anyway! (see any one of his training vids)
sorry to hear about this Narc. hope you get better soon mate
LOL you're right
BengDogg
14-08-2006, 20:12
Gore bike wear is top quality shit, for elite athletes only! Yes i own some but not power pants lol
Cheers for the words of support chaps!
Well i haven't seen the doc yet, but i have found out that the waiting list for the op is 6-12 months, not counting the waiting list to see a specialist before you get on the actual waiting list. and it can be a considerable time afterwards until you can train depending on the method your surgeon uses. It has gotten considerably worse over the last week or so and i can no longer train with it, it hurts just moving around now. The only way i can see at the moment that i will get it sorted promptly is to pay the British hernia centre to do it privately, the upshots being they use a specialist technique they've developed that has you back to strenuous activity within days and you can usually get an appopintment within two weeks, the downside beiong it's £1850.
Cheers for the words of support chaps!
Well i haven't seen the doc yet, but i have found out that the waiting list for the op is 6-12 months, not counting the waiting list to see a specialist before you get on the actual waiting list. and it can be a considerable time afterwards until you can train depending on the method your surgeon uses. It has gotten considerably worse over the last week or so and i can no longer train with it, it hurts just moving around now. The only way i can see at the moment that i will get it sorted promptly is to pay the British hernia centre to do it privately, the upshots being they use a specialist technique they've developed that has you back to strenuous activity within days and you can usually get an appopintment within two weeks, the downside beiong it's £1850.
sounds worth the money to me mate, you could be waiting years if you go the other route
What shitty state this country is in when thats the situation!
Oh and sorry to hear about the hernia Tim.
Ouch, paying that is enough to give u another hernia!
(Poor taste job I know :D)
I think you're probably right Fred, halting training for a year would basically just be akin to giving up, i'd be back at the same stage as i started by the end of it, not to mention totally depressed, it's only going to get worse in that time too so sooner or later will interfere with everything. In that sense 2k isn't a great deal, it's just getting my head around having to pay that much for something that takes a matter of minutes and that i should be getting free.
Milner, thanks, i couldn't agree more.
I think you're probably right Fred, halting training for a year would basically just be akin to giving up, i'd be back at the same stage as i started by the end of it, not to mention totally depressed, it's only going to get worse in that time too so sooner or later will interfere with everything. In that sense 2k isn't a great deal, it's just getting my head around having to pay that much for something that takes a matter of minutes and that i should be getting free.
Milner, thanks, i couldn't agree more.
thats true, i dont know where id get the money from tbh, i'd get a loan or something
i better start doing core work again lol
Cheer up Timmy,pay on credit card and it'll be free for a bit longer.
£2,000 is a big ouch, but worth it.
definatly would be money well spent. get a 0% credit card if you can go here: www.fool.co.uk
There may be a glimmer of hope, as doc reckons certain hospitals have much lower waiting lists if i'm prepared to travel, so going to hold off booking a consultation with the private place until they call me back on Monday with my options.
Fingers crossed they can fit you in. Although you will prob have to travel half way across the uk for it doh!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, it's still a long shot but i'd be perfectly happy travelling any distance really. Not sure if the treatement will be as good (ie. as quick to recover from) on the NHS though
Yeah that would be a major factor for me aswell mate (post-operation care), if I could pay I would
Right the docs got back to me and apparently Shepton Mallet can do it in 30 days, couldn't get any info on what type of procedure they use though so god knows how long i'll be out for afterwards, the old method supposedly means no heavy exertion for months depending on where you get your info, way i'm looking at is that most people are shit, whereas i did a rack pull 1RM less than two weeks after my appendix was removed :025:
Right the docs got back to me and apparently Shepton Mallet can do it in 30 days, couldn't get any info on what type of procedure they use though so god knows how long i'll be out for afterwards, the old method supposedly means no heavy exertion for months depending on where you get your info, way i'm looking at is that most people are shit, whereas i did a rack pull 1RM less than two weeks after my appendix was removed :025:
TBH unless I was incredibly rich, I'd go with this option, regardless of the procedure used.
I dunno about you, but £2000 is a huge amount of money for me: I'd do a load of research into medicine and fcuking sew myself up before I'd pay that much for the op.
Yeah i've already said i will take it. Thing is though, you don't have my 'muscle and strength allergic' genetics, even getting it done quickly and with only a few weeks off this will take a big toll on my gains thus far...
I know it’s not much of a consolation but at least you will be on the mend quicker therefore you will be back into your training quicker plus it wont hurt to shit!!!!
Just tried to book it on the NHS's main appointments line, ****ing useless. Couldn't get any information on the procedure they use, or any info on the surgery at all. They said the gp has to write them a letter then they write a letter to the treatment centre who will then write a letter to me and hopefully i should get that in just over two weeks which is when i'll actually get to book the operation, so i assume it will be a month from then, not now :013:
Hmm, rang them back to tell them they were retarded and more helpful guy answered the phone and told me my appointment should be on the 22nd September presuming the hospital accepts that. He gave me the phone number of the treatment centre to see if i could get any information on the type of procedure they use but got another useless bitch on the phone who probably couldn't even tell me what letter her name starts with.
Mate the NHS are useless but what can you do mate? So does that mean your appointment for the operation would be September 22nd or would that be a consultation?
Nah that will be the op, so that is at least good. I just want to know whether it will be an open stitched, open mesh, open tension free mesh or laparascopic mesh repair as the recovery times vary massively
What is the usual recovery time after Hernia surgery for someone with your type/seriousness of Hernia?
Massively depends on the repair. If they stitch the muscls tissue back together, months, and you can experience pain for years as it creates tesnion when you move. If they do an open repair and use mesh it depends how big the repair is and how they attach the mesh, ie. sutures, staples, stitching or if they do it tension free which can have you fully recovered within days, that's a fairly new method though and seeming only hernia specialists are using it atm. If they do it laparascopically it's also fairly swift because the incisions are much smaller, but it's more expensive, difficult and dangerous so many don't perform it. Mine is fairly simple, a primary (meaning first time) reducible (meaning it'll go back in) inguinal (meaning it's in the groin) hernia, which is the most common (75% of all hernias) and at the moment it's still fairly small. I recovered fairly quickly from my appendectomy and that was a pretty large incision without mesh reinforcement as far as i'm aware so hopefully i should be back quite quickly all going well.
I know the £2k is a lot of money but I don’t think I would go for the first one mate even if it is free as does not sound too good at all.
the block
24-08-2006, 13:10
you have age on your side too Narc, meaning you should heal fairly quickly (not quite like Wolverine)
all ze bezt
Just found out the date they've given me is just for a consultation and the actual operation won't be for a few weeks after that :(
Thats what I thought and asked... was surprised when you said it was the operation.
NHS is still speedy though
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