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Is there anyone that can advise or provide an online consultation as to whether I need to just leave this and live with the pain, or should keep trying to work out if there is help?

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Thanks for your comments and help, and yes I’ve definitely been using ice of late.

I saw the surgeon, who doesn’t want to do surgery because the hernia is too small and my surgical risks too high. He also wasn’t sure he could find it to repair while operating and thinks the size of the hernia wouldn’t cause the pain i’m having or abdominal swelling. At the same time he wasn’t able to give any ideas of what else could cause the pain and now it seems i have to look at long term pain management instead. Even though it is still tiny the hernia is growing in size and from what i’ve read they don’t heal on their own? I have an appointment booked with another general surgeon but my doctor thinks they will say the same thing

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Thanks very much for your replies. I have a few weeks to go before I see someone, but meanwhile it hurts doing things like sitting up, walking and coughing. The nausea has at least changed to intermittent so hopefully it’s just the hernia itself causing these problems.

As far as the exams, I didn’t experience anyone using different positions apart from the final ultrasound with coughing. But even as a general thing, when assessing abdominal pain even when mentioning the bulging I had multiple exams all lying down and hernia wasn’t even considered which seems strange to me.