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Calling Dr Gunbroker, symptoms of a hernia?

Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
edited September 2019 in General Discussion
I have pains, nowhere near the level of that testicular torsion I had but sort of in the same area. Left marble and left of center in lower belly. Going potty hurts like hell.

Is a hernia something that can be lived with or is this going to be an issue? I?m used to pain, don?t like it but I live with it daily, do I just add this to the list of things that hurt every day?
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    Quick&DeadQuick&Dead Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why tolerate the discomfort when seeing a knowlegable doctor can properly determine what is causing the discomfort :?:
    The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
    We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
    Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

    I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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    bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Could be a moving kidney stone.

    Yeah, go get it checked. Things like this are not worth putting up with. I have major back issues and live my life on opiates. If there was a way I could be pain free, I would do it in a heart beat.
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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    Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Quick&Dead wrote:
    Why tolerate the discomfort when seeing a knowlegable doctor can properly determine what is causing the discomfort :?:

    Money and no health insurance stops me from going.
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    Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    bambihunter wrote:
    Could be a moving kidney stone.

    Yeah, go get it checked. Things like this are not worth putting up with. I have major back issues and live my life on opiates. If there was a way I could be pain free, I would do it in a heart beat.

    I deal with back and joint issues as well, Advil is my friend. I can?t take prescription pain meds, if I did I am disqualified from driving.
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    bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Without opiates, I couldn't work. I take over 130mg per day and still hurt all day every day. All it does is take the sharp out and make it more dull. It is sad but affects every single thing in my life. Pray you never get there...
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
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    Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    forgemonkey wrote:
    If it?s an inguinal hernia and not repaired you risk the potential of a section of your colon bulging into your scrotum.

    I?ve needed surgery for some time but the ?saw bones? won?t do it until the fractures in my back heal, but we?re getting close.

    https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/inguinal-hernia/symptoms-causes/syc-20351547

    If a hernia ?strangulates? you will be in the emergency room posthaste in great pain with emergency surgery ASAP,,,,,

    Sounds like what that torsion did to me. Passed out at home, woke up in the ER and had emergency surgery.

    Didn?t want to hear that, but thanks. May have to stop in a large city somewhere and go to the hospital.
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    toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,019 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Are there any bulges in your lower abdomen at the sore area that are soft and movable? If so, then you most likely have a hernia, and that is your intestines poking out thru your abdominal muscles/wall. Main reason your nuts hurt is due to the fact that the weakest point in your lower abdomen is where your testicular cords go thru the muscles. An inguinal hernia tears from the area the cord goes thru, thus inflaming the cord and making your nuts hurt. Wouldn't hurt to have it checked out. If money is a problem, I'd be happy to send a few dead presidents your way to help out...
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    ChrisStreettChrisStreett Member Posts: 3,856 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ^^^^What he said. We?re kind of used to having ya around BSR. Let us know.
    "...dying ain't much of a living boy"-Josey Wales
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    SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,182 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To start with if you need to be seen and urgent care is way cheaper than an ER.

    You should be able to check yourself and determine if you have an inguinal hernia. Unless you have one on each side you will notice the difference on the side that ales you.

    A small kidney stone going down the ureter can cause your symptoms. I say small because if it was a large one you would have already had it check, believe it.

    A urinary tract infection can also cause these symptoms, they can check your urine in an urgent care.

    A strained groin could also be the issue, but pain with urination makes me think either UTI or small stone. Provided hernia is ruled out.

    Urgent cares services usually can't perform CT scans to check for kidney stones, but hernia checks and urine test for infection or blood they can do.

    If it is a small stone and you can tolerate the discomfort it will get better when it passes, it it's a UTI you will need antibiotics. Of course if it's a hernia the only thing that fixes that is surgery.

    So, if it gets better don't worry about it and if it gets worse get it checked. Small stones will pass but an untreated UTI can lead to some serious issues.
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    TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,270 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a sawzall, staple gun, and a BDJ anesthetic ballpeen hammer, I'll fix ya up! 8-)
    Go get it checked now before the doc finds it with a DOT exam, and your license gets suspended.
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    mrmike08075mrmike08075 Member Posts: 10,998 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Better any of the above than cancer or a tumor...

    And if so (god forbid - believe me I know) the faster you seek a diagnosis the better.

    Fingers crossed.

    Mike
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    KenK/84BravoKenK/84Bravo Member Posts: 12,055 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like the exact symptoms I described to my First responders/Paramedics at work, related to my Kidney Stones.

    It seriously felt that my testicle had spun, I stated that several times. The pain was nauseating.

    A simple urine test will confirm the diagnosis.

    Good Luck Brother.

    Get it checked out.
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    Quick&DeadQuick&Dead Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Big Sky Redneck wrote:
    Quick&Dead wrote:
    Why tolerate the discomfort when seeing a knowlegable doctor can properly determine what is causing the discomfort :?:

    Money and no health insurance stops me from going.

    The money won't mean anything if your a incapacitated, unable to work or worse, dead.

    Health insurance - who cares. They all take payments plus they can't get blood out of a turnip.
    The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
    We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
    Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.

    I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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    dpmuledpmule Member Posts: 6,652 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You sure the Missus didn't slip on an elastrator on your last trip home? :D

    Seriously Lonnie, hope all turns out ok.



    Mule
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    GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 16,748 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Go to a clinic. Around here for a hundred cash they can tell you what's going on. Some have X-rays in them if needdd-
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    serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If it gets blocked while poking out after eating you will need an emergency operation.I advise you to bite the bullet and get your muscle wall repaired.I had a mesh installed 10 years ago no problems. Two weeks downtime and limited lifting for a couple of months.

    serf
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    FrogdogFrogdog Member Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm no Doc.....but your symptoms do sound just like I had for my inguinal hernias. Had one on each side. They don't get better over time. Just get worse. I had outpatient arthroscopic surgery for both at once. Quick and easy. 3 days watching movies, and back to work.

    The no insurance piece is a tough spot, though. Your Doc may have info on programs that can help. I'm sure there are some out there.
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    KenK/84BravoKenK/84Bravo Member Posts: 12,055 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would (also) be willing to put a bit of $$ your way, in order to contribute to your issue, Brother. Let us know. It is not charity. It is people helping people they care about.

    We help the ones we care about. I care about you Lonnie.

    You matter to us here, Brother.

    Seek help, get it diagnosed.

    -Ken-


    Let us know what we can do for you, Brother.
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    Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Flying Clay Disk wrote:
    Actually sounds more like a kidney stone than hernia. I had a kidney stone recently and that wasn't a whole lot of fun, but better than some I guess.

    A couple questions for you...

    1. Did you have any pain in your back just below your rib-cage on one side recently? More pronounced when you wake up in the morning?

    If so, your issue could be a kidney stone making its way down and out.

    2. Have you picked up anything super heavy off the floor lately, like something which was too heavy to lift?

    This might be the cause for a hernia.

    In my case, my GP doc ruled out a kidney stone because he said I'd be on the floor puking in pain. I had been experiencing some fairly intense pain in my back on the right side just below my ribs, but I didn't have any pain that severe (although they do say I have an impossibly high pain threshold). Two days later I was peeing pure blood (gross, I know). It wasn't just 'some' blood, but pure blood, clots and all. And lemme' tell ya...THAT will get your attention!! Went to a specialist and they did the scope. Kidney stone had nicked a blood vessel in my bladder. Never even felt the kidney stone <knocking HARD on wood!>. Drank lots of fluids and it healed up in a couple days.


    The potty issues is #2, feels like I have a baseball in my belly when I have to push, going #1 is business as usual. The pain in the left marble causes shooting pains down my left leg.

    The back pain I?ve had for a little over a year now and is lower back. It always hurts but some days it flares up a d is crippling and if I move the wrong way my legs litteraly stop working and down I go, I fell in a truckstop not long ago and that was quite embarassing along with the tears from the pain. The back issues is from a lifetime of abuse but they became quite noticable after Iraq, driving those military trucks while wearing 80#s of body armor I think is what did me in.

    I spoke with a local company yesterday. I may pull the plug on my deal and work local, I?ll get insurance.

    If this doesn?t get better soon I?ll go atleast get a checkup. I?m falling apart and I haven?t even hit 50 yet.
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    montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 58,009 ******
    edited November -1
    Go

    Get

    Checked

    We both know,it ain't going to get better. Get checked,get it taken care of. Best wishes,always.
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    mrmike08075mrmike08075 Member Posts: 10,998 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You falling apart - that's gradual process and an advancing trend - you have the time and ability and drive to effect positive changes and change course...

    While that is the short and of the stick and hard to face your still driving the bus and can stop or change lanes...

    Or you could be like me or others here and and have all opportunity evaporate in the blink of an eye.

    It's tough having to be forced to change course - it's worse to have no choice or chance.

    And it's not just about you - it's about your family.

    I have laid on the ground in a crowded parking lot unable to stand or speak in agonizing pain so I understand...

    Suck it up and be a man - do the right thing so there will be an opportunity to do needful things - none of this die with your boots on BS.

    It does not make you less of a man - it allows you to keep being the man your family needs.

    Mike
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    spec.4spec.4 Member Posts: 897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had two hernia surgeries and I have to say, it was no cake walk. After a emergency ulcer surgery, I got a night shirt for guys. and then i had one hernia, then the 2nd one. I was glad to have that shirt because I had no pressure around my stomach except the very wide band. it make it less painful for the two weeks home. Get one and you be thanking yourself.
    Rob
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    castingcasting Member Posts: 110 ✭
    edited November -1
    I've had 5 hernias. No crap. 5. And I have one now. Had it for a few years. My 3rd one, my guts were down in my sack. If you have that ,you'll know. I could lay on my back and bridge upward and wiggle a certain way and push my guts back up inside me. I figured if I waited, I'd end up losing my sack and everything in it. I got it fixed. I didn't have insurance. I didn't care. The Dr. and Hosp. took payments. They have people who make arrangements for that. This was back in 1979. The hernia I have now is up by my belly button. It's called a ventral hernia. What sucks is it came from my last hernia surgery. They did it laproscopicly. You know, without opening me up. The cut they made below my belly button didn't heal good enough and right there is where it popped. The Dr. said I could get it fixed when I felt like it. The operation is simple. You go in, lay down, get your nuts shaved, get up and piss and go home. Unless you're fat and they have to cut you open. Then you might have to stay overnight.
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    jrentjrent Member Posts: 89 ✭
    edited November -1
    This thread makes me hurt just reading.....
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