Burning pain right abdomen

1ST TIME EVER GOING THRU HER PHONEIm 28 and my girlfriend 29 Look I don't got nobody to talk to seriously but I been thinking hard . But been wither her since high school and we out now for couple years .. also she a Virgin BTW but to be honest I don't mind 4 play and I'm not rushing a female into that but now 7 years out HER PHONE WENT OF AND IT FROM A GUY Found out she cheated AND ALSSO HAD AN ABORTION
.. she is sleep currently right now but I seen a weird text AND TO BE Honest I want her to burn

Backstory: I had a serious back injury in 2008 and I live a life of chronic pain and medical issues from the spinal fusion surgery.
About a month ago, I was hit by a semi on the freeway. The car was totaled. The trucker admitted fault. His insurance is handling the payment of the car, but they're also handling a medical payout that they're insuring is a separate issue. I've been having back issues and leg numbness since the accident. I have an MRI scheduled for next week, so I've declined any medical payout offers until we see what's going on. For the property damage of the car, they've sent me the following release. I just want to ensure this won't keep me from holding them liable for my potential medical issues.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That the Undersigned, [ME], being of lawful age, for sole consideration of Twelve
thousand two hundred ninety one and 28/100 Dollars ($12,291.28) to be paid to do/does hereby
and for my/ouits heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns release, acquit, and
forever discharge [TRUCKING COMPANY], [TRUCK DRIVER], and his/hetheiits agents, servants,
successors, heirs, executors, administrators, and all other persons, firms, corporations,
associations, or partnerships of and from any and all claims, actions, causes of action, demands,
rights, damages, costs, loss of service, expenses, and compensation whatsoever, which the
undersigned now has/have or which may hereafter accrue on account of or in any way growing
out of any and all known and unknown, foreseen and unforeseen property damage and the
consequences thereof resulting or to result from the occurrence on or about [DATE OF ACCIDENT], at or
near [CITY OF ACCIDENT].
It is understood and agreed that this settlement is the compromise of a doubtful and
disputed claim, and that the payment made is not to be construed as an admission of liability on
the part of the party or parties hereby released, and that said releases deny liability therefore and
intend merely to avoid litigation and buy their peace.
The Undersigned hereby declare(s) and represent(s) that no promise, inducement, or
agreement not herein expressed has been made to the undersigned, and that this Release
contains the entire agreement between the parties hereto, and that the terms of this Release are
contractual and not a mere recital.
Each party hereby represents and warrants that such party has full power, authority and
legal right to execute and deliver this contract and to perform and observe its provisions or any
transaction contemplated by it, and upon execution and delivery by such party of this contract,
this contract shall constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of such party, enforceable in
accordance with its terms.
Also worth noting, my inclination is that the trucker may have been pushing hours or on some substance given the nature of the shifty and panicked medical payout offers they've been hitting me with every day. Am I clear to sign this? The insurance adjuster has assured me that property damage and medical will be two separate dealings.

yoku's island express* my bad
pretty much almost everyone love this game. initially, i love this game too. cute artstyle and environment design, unique mechanics, fun soundtrack and sound design.
the more i played, the more i dislike it. at first the pinball mechanics is fun and creative, a novelty, after a while, i started getting stuck especially when i want to enter a specific tunnel that's adjacent to another one. i probably just suck at pinball, but whenever i need to be accurate, it feels like i need to be pixel perfect and the pinball mechanics make me feel like i lack control and agency. in games like hollow knight for example, in the path of pain challenge, every time i screw up, i get immediate feedback when i screw up. in yoku, i just feel doing the same thing over and over, hoping to get the ball position right and sometimes it just doesnt work. i stopped at slug garden level and before that i already was frustrated several times in some of the pinball level screen wasting 1o-15 minutes each trying to get into specific bouncer or holes.
it made me feel a bit sad, but i know continuing would just make me angry so i decided to put it down for good. i understand what people enjoy about this game and it's certainly very charming and well made, it's just the mechanics never click for me.

1ST TIME EVER GOING THRU HER PHONEIm 28 and my girlfriend 29 Look I don't got nobody to talk to seriously but I been thinking hard . But been wither her since high school and we out now for couple years .. also she a Virgin BTW but to be honest I don't mind 4 play and I'm not rushing a female into that but now 7 years out HER PHONE WENT OF AND IT FROM A GUY Found out she cheated AND ALSSO HAD AN ABORTION
.. she is sleep currently right now but I seen a weird text AND TO BE Honest I want her to burn

1ST TIME EVER GOING THRU HER PHONEIm 28 and my girlfriend 29 Look I don't got nobody to talk to seriously but I been thinking hard . But been wither her since high school and we out now for couple years .. also she a Virgin BTW but to be honest I don't mind 4 play and I'm not rushing a female into that but now 7 years out HER PHONE WENT OF AND IT FROM A GUY Found out she cheated AND ALSSO HAD AN ABORTION
.. she is sleep currently right now but I seen a weird text AND TO BE Honest I want her to burn Idk I don't wanna tell her I can't give all a big rundown rn but just someone help me out

I have no idea what to expect from here but whatever I’ll try it anyway. If this is the right place to even ask this.
I’ve been with my partner for close to five years, lived together for almost three, but in recent times since living together, she travels for work.
Not regularly but sometimes. We are talking out of the country for up to a week. And honestly. I might sound very selfish for this but I’m tired of this.
I am happy she has a good job, but I have my own set of issues she tries to help with and I try to do better, like with my severe anxiety for example.
But the times she goes away is so mentally painful and exhausting to me. I really want things to work, we have been through a lot but I am just not sure.
It scares me honestly. I don’t want to end things. But I don’t want to feel this pain. It fucking sucks.

I found out I had hsv2 in Dec and when I first got it I use to get these sharp/tingly pains in my legs & then they went away (assuming I just needed to get use to taking the medicine) but I recently started getting sharp /tingly pains again but only on my right leg & foot now.. has anyone else experienced this? Is it related to the medicine or could it be something else I should talk to a doctor about. It’s just super uncomfortable & a weird painful.

Model number: 50S434 50in tcl smart tv.
A few months ago when turning on my tv it started to blackscreen occasionally. It started out as once every month, then every week, then every day. Until eventually it just stopped displaying picture all together. The tv back light would be on and there would be sound but no picture. I tried all of the obvious solutions including draining power ect. Nothing seemed to work. Now I know quite a bit when it comes to computers but tvs are a whole different ballgame so I was trying to avoid opening it up but after a month of trying different things I decided to open up and see if I could find anything. There is no obvious signs of dmg or burns. No indications of high heat with a thermal camera. Nothing. I tried powering it up with the left side ribbon cable unplugged and WHALA it turns on with half a screen. So then I do the obvious and I try to do the opposite. Plug back in the left side and unplug the right side. Funny enough that also worked…. I tried using the tape method to block off the pins on the cable used for clock and that didn’t help. After exhausting myself trying to cover all 120 pins 1 at a time I decided to try to plug one in, boot it up and then plug the other in…. Then it works? So now my tv will turn on perfectly fine so long as it only has one cable at the start and then I add the other one after. Is it worth replacing my motherboard to fix this issue? And is it even a motherboard issue?

I got my gallbladder removed in September 2022, I had complications (bile leak, sepsis, acute pancreatitis after ERCP that's now chronic, gastroparesis, almost liver and kidney failure).
Now, I have pain in my sternum since october 2023 and reflux it's not stomach acid (I'm still on pantoprazol tho) but non-acid-relux aka. bile. Idk how it's treated, my voice gets hoarse, pain in sternum, my esophagus is bloated or slightly burning and my stomach feels warm.
How can I treat it?

The exponent is exponentially exponentiating .The rate of change is accelerating and is insanely high right now.
We are in so many feedback loops, the biggest of which is AI.
Take the most advanced AI coders and think about how much time they save using these models like GPT4, now GPT4 omni or o.
And we are just at the beginning of this. GPT4o scored I believe like an 88 or something in the MMLU just under the best Gemini Ultra model.
These programmers now have the AI to speed up their development of AI (either That AI or some other AI). It helps them code faster and debug much much much faster. They are saying that programmers are now 50% more productive but that’s gotta be bull. It’s definitely way more than that. So if we got here before these tools existed, think about where we’ll be soon with the help of these tools.
Even though we don’t have AGI, GenAI helps us get to AGI much faster. It can do certain things much much much faster and better than we can like coding.
I believe that coding jobs will be at risk soon at the rate of progress this thing is going at. When you combine the copilot, the assistant genAI, and the no code movement, it’s not hard to see where this is going.
Ppl will scream, no AI cannot act autonomously, it cannot capture certain nuances. And you maybe right. We have the creative edge right now.
However as we abstract these tools more and more and as we get tools such as AI that are able to go from high levels of abstraction to granular levels of complexity they can understand us at a high level and code at the lowest level and bridge the gap. It’s becoming evidently better by the day at doing so. The point is soon anyone will be able to do what an average (not expert) programmer can do.
I think it’s hard for me to explain what I’m thinking but I think generalists will dominate the world. The days of specialists are coming to an end, as ANI advances at tremendous rates. Soon the generalists will also be left crying and crawling because AGI and then ASI will come.
Also some ppl are saying there will be this roadblock or that pain point etc. Data is growing at an exponential rate. Cloud capacity is being built up more and more. Renewable energies are on the way to fuel said data centers. Even potential fusion energy is on the way. Quantum computers are on the way. And better AI is on the way. Any bottleneck that happens in any area will be blasted away by progress in an adjacent or perpendicular area as these exponential technologies converge on each other.
This is what exponential change looks like. I feel it……. I feel the AGI. Do you?

So in February I had a swollen lymph node that I had to take antibiotics for. It was over 1,000 mg and I had never taken such a high dose. Then right after the course I got a uti (or so I thought). I had taken azo, and drank tons of liquids and cranberry juice. I went away then came back. I keep taking medication for it and it keeps coming and going. I do some research and see it could actually be a yeast infection from the antibiotics. So l order the 7 day cream and use it. I got my period so I had to stop usage then resumed after my period. Then I took the strong version of azo for uti because now I have pain when I pee. Then it disappears. Now I'm currently experiencing pain in my abdomen similar to cramps. I have a doctors appointment scheduled, but does anyone know what this could be? Or have any similar experiences? I'm freaking out because Google tells me l have underlying conditions or I'm pregnant. Please help🙏🎀

I wasn't active until the start of this year so I missed the whole 2023 advent calendar. out of interest I went back and looked at the whole orion/clues etc thing that happened tangentially to the advent in case it yielded any clues for the upcoming plot. watching back over the daily animations and prizes, I noticed:
day 5: Y25 plushie released as a prize. it has previously been speculated that this yurble is the one appearing in the vandalized neopian travel posters.
day 6: orion dialogue suggests he believes "something terrible is about to happen". the prize released on this day is a book "the big book of intermediate evil plots". more interestingly, the accompanying animation shows a lupe being haunted by the shadow usul.
going to shadow usul's neopedia page, we can read a short text detailing the shadow usul setting upon someone in a dark forest:
"Don't tell me... NO!" Toby shouted as he turned to look, only to see that the sky was filled with waves of boulders, as big as codestones, coming right at him. "AAARRGH!!!" The poor Gelert bellowed, as his body became swollen and bruised, racked by a pain the likes of which he'd never experienced before.
"Heh, magic pebbles." the Shadow Usul chuckled, while unleashing a mighty torrent on the poor, overmatched Gelert. "But I'm only getting started... just watch!"
magic pebble was an old faerie ability used in the battledome, but has been retired for some time. shadow usul goes on to use two? other retired abilities but this is the only one explicitly named, and is also her opening move.
day 7: what are the prizes today? pebble and Christmas Rock.
?????? what has shadow usul got to do with anything? who knows. just thought it was strange coincidence. I Personally hoping this means we un-retire all those interesting moves when the battledome part of the plot begins. but for now I'm just going to stash a bunch of those advent prizes in case they're relevant later. please roast me in the comments if this is unhinged/been speculated on before and I'm late to the party

Idk but having this disease keeps me from moving around.. I'm 35 male had this snice 30.. last three years been shitty.. I eat what ever and drink alot of beer.. some days after drinking I walk and feel not so in pain.. I feel like even eatting right and exercising alot I'll still feel the same pain each day.. fake hips already and my elbows suck now and knees n ankles r very painful..

Cat age: 8 weeks Cat breed: Idk he was a stray general location: Canada Duration of symptoms: He is sleeping now but this happened about an hour ago and he doesn’t seem in pain anymore but I’m not sure if I should still worry. I can’t remember the other criteria I’m panicking a lot
Hi, I got a new kitten recently and he always sits down fully whenever he used the bathroom so he gets poo and pee all over his butt and legs. Today it was the worst i've seen it, usually I just let him clean it but I was really worried today a) about pee burns and b) about him tracking pee and poo around the house. Anyway I used paper towel and warm water + some cat shampoo and tried to get it off as gently as possible. He started screaming so I stopped as soon as I got the majority off. Now, he seems to hate me and screams if I pet him, he also pooed again shortly after and cried while pooing. I'm worried that the paper towel was too rough or that I didn't use enough water or that I was less gentle than I thought I was and that he is hurt. I'm so scared like what if his butt or other genitals got hurt while I was bathing him and what if he is hurt or traumatized or if he is going to hate me forever. I told my partner that my partner will have to clean him from now on because i'm just so scared that I did it wrong. What should I do? Will he be okay? Will he hate me forever? am I a bad pet owner? I genuinely feel terrible and i've been crying hysterically ever since. I just don't know how fragile he is and what if I was not gentle enough and his butt got hurt or his yk got squished or something during his bath? Can this even happen? Please don't judge me I already feel terrible.

She didn't run into a burning building, she didn't dive into a river or jump in front of a train; she was just being her perfect self.
About a year ago, the depression and anxiety I've struggled with for years flared up and became worse than I could have imagined. It scared me, and I naively thought I could pull through it by myself. I was wrong.
That day, I learn that your brain wants to protect itself. It wants to protect itself so much that it will sacrifice anything, including it's own body to escape stress. I was far more than stressed, I felt hopeless like nothing I'd ever felt before. I just wanted it to stop.
I was driving down country roads after dropping some things off to my parents' new house. I wasn't even a mile away, going 57 miles per hour on a two lane street. I noticed some trees off the side of the road and they were many decades old. They could certainly cause a lot of damage if I were to just drive into them i thought. Especially if I sped up a bit.
I thought about how it could just end. It could just stop. Every bad thought, all the negative self image, no more stress. All I had to do was turn the steering wheel slightly.
I could picture it: the metal and plastic of my wonderful car would make a ruckus as they crushed and bent. The families enjoying their dinners in near by homes would come running out before phoning an ambulance, but if I did it just right, it wouldn't matter. I would be gone, everything would stop, and I would hurt no more.
But then I stopped and I could clear visualize a small broken mass in the wreckage; my dog who was happily looking out the window and smelling all the wonderful scents the world had to offer. She had her head out the window, the wind billowing in her fur. She would die too.
14 years old and 16 pounds. She would have the same fate I wanted, and she looked so happy with sparkling eyes behind graying fur. I couldn't bear to see her bloody and broken despite how much I wanted to be, and go to the grave knowing my selfishness would be the reason for her demise.
All this flew through my head in only a few seconds as I sharply corrected my course from where I was veering. I drove home stiff and numb, and when I finally put that car in park, I just held my precious puppy and cried.
After a few more months of those dark thoughts, I reached out for help. I am medicated now and in therapy and doing much better than I have in over 7 years. My dog is still alive, but is suffering from dementia and is worsening. She was my 6th birthday present and I hardly remember a time without her. I don't know how I'm gonna go on without her when the time comes. After all, she saved my life. And she'll never know it. I just hope I've given her a good enough life, because the gift she gave me, a second chance, is as priceless as she is.

Hey y'all. This is my first ever post on reddit, and I came on here for the sole purpose of seeking advice...
For context, you could consider me a "cradle catholic." I have never really been that religious, and my siblings and I were catholic for the sole reason that we grew up with it. However, around 3 years ago I started walking away from the Church after realizing just how hateful and hypocritical it is, and how it's just a down-right business at this point. A majority of my family thankfully share the same mindset, except for one family member, and I have no idea what to do anymore.
I feel like I lost a family member at this point. After my family member has been involved with FOCUS at their university I feel like they have become a totally different person, in a bad way. Before their involvement with FOCUS, we were relatively close, but not I feel like the only option I have is to cut them out forever.
Firstly, my family member has never really been "extremely religious" growing up. I think when we were younger, going to church, confession, CCD, was always like a chore and we did it to make our remaining family happy most of the time. It was more a just "nod and smile" kind of thing. Now, fundamental catholicism is their ENTIRE personality and completely changed them into an entirely different person.
For example, some of us were IVF babies and my parents were very transparent with that. When we were younger it was just another thing, not a big deal... Now ever since they have been affiliated with FOCUS, this family member acts as if my parents are the most God-awful creatures on the planet, and HATES them (not disagree, HATE) with everything inside of them. They even told me that my parents need to "Beg for forgiveness" since they gave life to THEM, and a parent who recently passed is "rightfully burning in hell."
In addition to this, I've never seen my sibling HATE the way they do. Again, this is not just a disagreement, this is a full-blown, bitter, dark HATE. My sibling HATES my parents, and HATES my grandparents for allowing my parents to have IVF. They HATE the LGBTQ+ community, and they ESPECIALLY HATE women's rights, reproductive medicine, and any form of contraceptives. Following this my sibling as also flat out told me "condoms are just as bad as abortions" and that "it is up to the man to decide when to start of family." (Mind you, this specific person has NEVER taken a biology class OR sex ed class in their entire life, nor had a significant other) They just hate, hate, hate... And for how "holy" they are they have NO problem calling me really nasty names and telling me to "suck my cock."
Plus, they have become extremely artifical in publically displaying their faith... Mind y'all none of my family or close friends even did this, so it's not like this is a family thing... But now they have to obnoxiously do the sign of the cross before every meal, they leave their bibles and rosaries all over the house, gives my non-religous (all ex-catholic) family members prayer cards, and if they are really feeling like an asshole they will send me bible versus on how I need to repent and be more like them. It's just so fucking forced and fake...
Whenever I try to talk to them about, just why, they always try to claw me in back to Catholicism. Always. And if it isn't that, they completely lack any common logic/reasoning to their argument and it often ends in bitter screaming matches.
I try, so, hard to find a middle ground with them... or at LEAST TRY to understand where all this shit is coming from but I just can't.
Regardless, I genuinely do not know what to do anymore. Ever since discovering who I am, and my values as a human being, I've really started to grow a deep disappointment for this family member.
They mean a lot to me and of course, I want the best for both of us, but they have made my life a living hell for the previous years... If it isn't trying to start an argument it's ruining personal achievements and accomplishments (tell me my honors should've been THEIRS and how they have been unrightfully given to me)... They have really shown me just how ugly and terrible religion can be and I do not know what other steps to take to have them in my life anymore.
My apologies for the long-ass post, and my gratitude if you made it this far.

I have been teaching since 2005, and was a tutor (I helped other students in Japanese studies) for an additional 2.5 years. Teaching is all that I know for the most part, and I have never really put thought into signing a new contract for the next 2 years. However, just before the annoying beer named virus took over, I had started to feel like the place I am in was no bueno. There was as noticeable change in the "quality" of the students. They started to show more open hostility, disrespect, and defiance towards the teachers.
In my school in particular I am a foreign language and ESL teacher on top of being a gen ed teacher, and as much as I don't like it I have classes over multiple grades at the same time. Post beer, the school really changed. It was like admin and education department used that down time to mess up everything, the class times changed, the schedules changed, the school rules changed, it got worse and worse.
Also during this time a lot of the parents too stock in how well their children were actually doing in school versus what the teachers were saying (this is a semi-private schools so there is a higher incentive to smudge how well the children are doing). This led to a lot of the good children being removed from the school for better places, or for cheaper places (why pay so much if the quality isn't there), or they just moved away to a different city.
So to fill those spots the school did massive open enrollment drives and stalked the school with children who ... honestly they need special education to help them. Don't take this the wrong way, we had a lot of children who have ADD ADHD or were autistic, I am neurodiverse myself so I never really had issues with those kids after we learned a pattern that worked for them. These days, we have more neurodivergent children who have behavioral issues, who have a hard time maintaining themselves in the classrooms, but they can be managed with the right efforts (most of them).
The real problem are the children who come from real money families that zero respect, zero manners, zero self control, and zero drive to learn. At the beginning of this year I signed a new one year contract because, I can no longer see myself working in this school. Daily I am met with the hours of effort I put in the design of my lessons being turned to waste, the daily barrage of students screaming at me because they can't for the life of them talk with a normal voice volume, the daily frustrations of having to repeat everything in two languages 10 times because in neither language do they pay attention, I am tired of not being able to reuse lessons that were massive hits with the children in previous years because the child now don't have the language abilities or the practical abilities to do the work and the amount of time it takes to reduce, simplify, and remake the lesson is wasted because it no longer has the original meaning behind why they were doing it.
I am so tired of weak management, unhelpful administration, out of touch parents, and openly hostile or dismissive coworkers. Why did I sign a new contract, because I wasn't prepared to leave yet, I wasn't prepared for the move, and I have no idea what to do other than teaching and this school has made me hate being a teacher. Forgive me for I have signed a new contract when I am mentally checked out now. I will continue to do my work to standard, but I am tired of burning myself out to make stellar lessons to have them shat on.
Thank you for letting me rant.

So in February I had a swollen lymph node that I had to take antibiotics for. It was over 1,000 mg and I had never taken such a high dose. Then right after the course I got a uti (or so I thought). I had taken azo, and drank tons of liquids and cranberry juice. I went away then came back. I keep taking medication for it and it keeps coming and going. I do some research and see it could actually be a yeast infection from the antibiotics. So I order the 7 day cream and use it. I got my period so I had to stop usage then resumed after my period. Then I took the strong version of azo for uti because now I have pain when I pee. Then it disappears. Now I’m currently experiencing pain in my abdomen similar to cramps. I have a doctors appointment scheduled, but does anyone know what this could be? Or have any similar experiences? I’m freaking out because Google tells me I have underlying conditions or I’m pregnant. Please help 🙏🎀

I wrote a letter to remind myself to be kinder to oneself as surely this feeling will pass.. right?
Strangers by Correspondence
Neither friends nor strangers, we acquainted ourselves with one another, sharing desires for love that the other dismisses. Tormenting ourselves, we pity our own feelings, attributing the pain to our own making. In the liminal space, she existed before we truly knew her, her upbringing leaving wounds we thought we could heal. All this time, we believed our wait for something more would only lead to inevitable disappointment. The only one to blame is the fool in the mirror; so wipe away the paint and ask yourself: What are you? A kid pretending to be an adult, thinking you can handle it all.
Understandably, we longed for companionship, seeking the kind of relationship we saw in our friends. "When will it be my turn?" we asked, never considering that loneliness would creep up on us, slowly killing us inside. Desperation consumed us during those times, leaving no doubt in our minds.
Then came the day we approached her in class—frightened, confused, and terrified. We didn't know anyone, nor did we want to know anyone. But there she was, an angel—or her name was angel, as her ID said so, sat next to her and a nickname was introduced her otherwise true name —sweet and kind. Yet, it wasn't her looks that drew us in; rather, it was her perseverance and gleeful attitude.
As we saw her more and more, she grew more beautiful with each passing day. Butterflies runs around in our stomachs as we wrote these words, a testament to our delusions. We never intended to pursue someone so intensely, but in our worst moment, we blurted out our feelings in a burst of false confidence a drunken text.
We may have felt like idiots at the time, but we don't regret it. It was the first step towards regaining our confidence. Flattered she was, and hopeful we were. But fate had other plans.
In the end, we still hold on to hope, embodying the essence of the hopeless romantic. She may never see us the way we see her, but we still check up on her, because deep down, we care for her. For what's it worth we formed a bond. Created a safe space between us. We were never friends, nor were we strangers—just acquaintances, bound by fleeting moments of connection.

I started having really painful lips about a week ago. I usually get them when I don’t get enough sleep enough for days, but it never hurt like this. I can’t live without slathering lip balm, and even just putting it on makes my lips burn. Anytime anything rubs my lips (when I’m eating), it burns like crazy and becomes super red like I’m wearing bright red lipstick. It’s so embarrassing. There are a couple of tiny bumps near the edges and I suspect they might be the cause, however I can’t find anything online. I don’t use lip products other than Vaseline lip balm. Not sure what could cause it as I’m not sexually active either.

So I’m 5’11’’ and 250 lbs, so definitely over weight.
I have an inguinal hernia and can’t get anywhere close to affording a surgery, so I’m trying to lose weight and strengthen my core fitness to kinda de stress the whole abdominal area.
Pull ups don’t seem to aggravate the hernia discomfort at all, so I’ll keep doing those (at the moment I can only do one and a half reps per set lol, but I do larger sets of modified pull ups with no hernia pain...
Mountain biking doesn’t bother me either, so I’ll do more of that.
I can bike around 20 miles (1.5-2 hours of activity) with no hernia discomfort at all. Oddly enough I can only walk about 5 miles (1.5 hours of activity) before feeling a kind of burning at the hernia sight.
Seems odd that walking would aggravate a hernia more than biking, but that’s my experience.
Anyone recommend for or against swimming? I also really like kayaking but haven’t gone since the hernia started so I don’t know what to expect next time I try to paddle.
As for weight training,
Most of the upper body work outs I do with dumbbells seem fine too.
But anything that really engages the abdominals forces the hernia to slide out and the sensation bothers me enough to avoid those kinds of exercises.
Crunches and leg lifts are both no goes.
Even planking/ push-ups seem to be problematic.
So are there exercises I should look into that target and strengthen the abdominals, but gently, so I’m not squishing the hernia hack and forth the whole time?
Wide open to research suggestions, for any “hernia friendly” ab exercises. Or just hernia friendly exercises in general.
Also: do hernia belts exist and if so do they work? Whenever my hernia slides out I kinda just push it back in with my fingers, and was thinking I could probably modify a regular old belt to apply constant corrective pressure there.
But if they’re cheap and useful I’d rather just buy one than go through the dick pain of rigging up a makeshift.