annual inguinal hernia repair last year i was totally surprised when my annual physical disclosed an inguinal hernia i couldn t remember doing anything that would have caused it that is i hadn t been lifting more than other people do and in fact probably somewhat less eventually the thing became more painful and i had the repair operation this year i developed a pain on the other side this turned out to be another inguinal hernia so i go back to the hospital monday for another fun operation i don t know of anything i m doing to cause this to happen i m years old and i don t think i m old enough for things to start falling apart like this the surgeon who is doing the operation seems to suspect a congenital weakness but if so why did it suddenly appear when i was and not really as active as i was when i was younger does anyone know how to prevent a hernia other than not lifting anything it s rare that i lift more than my month old or a sack full of groceries and you may have noticed that your typical grocery sack is fairly small these days is there some sort of exercise that will reduce the risk of course my wife thinks it s from sitting for long periods of time at the computer reading news j porter clark jpc avdms msfc nasa gov or jpc gaia msfc nasa gov nasa msfc flight data systems branch
