Well f*ck my ass...I got a hernia.
Two night ago, I was getting ready to lift. I was sitting on the floor putting on my shoes. I jumped up in some awkward fashion, coughed at the same time, and BAM, I had a ridiculous pain 3" to the right of my belly button. I put my hand on the spot and felt a golf ball size mass of intestines trying to bust out of my gut like Aliens. I put both hands on the spot on pushed hard. After about 5 minutes of fighting it, the mass finally got smaller and smaller and finally went back inside. I laid on the floor for the next 30 minutes. I called my doctor the next day to see if I should come in. I told him that the bulge was gone, it didn't hurt too much anymore, and I had no symptoms of intestinal twisting (nausea, diarrhea, bloating). He said I didn't need to come in because there are only two options for a hernia: 1) do nothing or 2) surgery; and they don't like to do surgery unless it happens multiple times.
So here I am, a mere 2-3 weeks from potentially breaking all 4 of my big lift PRs that I set 2 years ago, and I'm f*cking incapacitated. This sucks. I have yet to find any specific information on healing time, so I'm not sure how long to take it easy. And I'm not sure how to avoid it in the future since it happened from a damn cough, and not from a 400 pound squat.
