2022-12-16 "Turn your head and cough" - finally found something, after 6 decades of enduring this exam

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I have an inguinal hernia, with surgery scheduled for January. So I've seen 3 doctors this month. In each case I chose to have a Your-Skin Cone on when I dropped my pants for the exam.

- My regular doctor knows about my restoration and examined me - including that hernia check where he hooks his finger in my scrotum and has me cough - without dislodging the cone or commenting. He recommended watchful waiting, btw.

- The urgent care guy I had to see last Friday when the pain got intense asked about the cone, but only after the exam and discussion of prognosis. I showed him how it keeps the skin from retracting. He seemed very disinterested and left quickly. I had expected this guy to be curious because as an Asian with a thick accent he was statistically very likely intact himself. While I dressed I heard him talking to staff outside about rushing home, even though they were explaining that very sick people with appointments would have very long waits for the remaining doctors. So at least he had some reason to rush out.

- Monday, the surgeon finally met with me. When he asked me to drop my pants, I lost my nerve. I mean, this is the guy I needed to trust to do his best work. So instead leaving the cone there for him to work around or be distracted by, I quickly palmed it after he had spotted it and said "uh, don't mind about that" as I set it aside. Who knows what he thinks was going on. Apparently, I'm not quite an emergency, so he'll do my surgery when he gets back from his Alpine vacation. Waiting sucks. I'm in pain every day.

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Sorry to hear that. Living with pain is not fun. It is interesting, you are not an "emergency", therefor you get to enjoy the pain for longer... At least hernias are pretty routine and well known.

I think I would have "lost my nerve" too. We are very dependent upon the surgeon, want them to think as highly of us as we can...

Hang in there, and best wishes for the surgery going well.

[tuguser]

Ron,
I know from more recent posts that your surgery was successful and that all is well, for which I’m glad.
I forget the type of hernia you noted, but I’m curious if that’s when abdominal muscles weaken to a point or in a specific area which allows a section of one’s innards to breach the muscle tissue.
I remember thinking I’d possibly given myself a mild hernia in my groin area, most likely because I hung too much weight off the end of my TLC-X. It affected me whenever I sat cross legged (Indian style) or crossing one leg or stooping. I’m happy to say that it seemed to have healed itself since I no longer experience any pain…whew! As obvious as it might be to any intelligent mind, somehow I never imagined that too much weight (in my case) suspended from the end of my penis could impact a tendon or ligament in that manner. Live and learn I guess.

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the type of hernia

Inguinal. I didn't look up what it means.

curious if that’s when abdominal muscles weaken to a point or in a specific area which allows a section of one’s innards to breach the muscle tissue.

That's a good description of what I had.

I’d possibly given myself a mild hernia in my groin area, most likely because I hung too much weight off the end of my TLC-X

I haven't been hanging anything.

it seemed to have healed itself since I no longer experience any pain…phew!

My team implied there's no hope of healing without intervention.

As obvious as it might be to any intelligent mind, somehow I never imagined that too much weight (in my case) suspended from the end of my penis could impact a tendon or ligament in that manner. Live and learn I guess.

Yeah, I've never warned anyone about possible hernia.