I’ve had one for a while now, and it had me at the ER last night thinking my appendix had ruptured. I was working on my boat and felt something move in the vicinity, and within an hour I was hurting severely.

It was pretty bad and in the blink of an eye it just quit hurting. They did a CT scan and said my appendix was fine, but the hernia was probably inflamed. Thankfully the Dr. sent me home with a referral to a surgeon.

This morning I can feel it more, can’t cough, or strain much at all and not feel it. It’s not hurting though just uncomfortable. Told that to Dr. when he called me to follow up, and he recommended I call the surgeon first thing tomorrow.

We are short handed at work and have a ton of work to do. If I could get this fixed and be back by next week I’d feel better about it. I’m thinking about holding off, but don’t want to risk something worse.

Anybody have any input?

Get it done now. I am the guy that let it ride foe a couple of months to finish up some things before I was down. Mine was ingurnal, and it kept me slowed down every day. I was about to start a section of fence that was 2.2 miles long, and around noon that day I felt like my whole lower intestine was in my right sack. I called the surgeon that day and the next day I had it repaired. He said I was lucky he had a cancellation and that it didn’t go septic, and it was much worse than when I did my initial visit. He stipulated bed rest for three days, minimal movement for the next 4 days, no lifting over 5 lbs for two weeks, 20 lbs after 4 weeks and at week 8 I was to be careful. 8 months later I still had a little dull pain, and then one day it was gone. I can feel the mesh once in a while, but it is just scratchy.

Use an ice pack as the doc says and the recovery will be quick and easy. I started walking on the highway daily and would get the ice on when I got back home. My weight restriction was 10 lbs which can be tough!

I wouldn’t wait. Unless you do any lifting you could be back at work in a few days. If you lift it could take months to recover to that point. I had a small one I didn’t know about that was seen during another surgery they just went ahead and fixed it.