• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    Jesus. Did they have to do anything to get it to heal, or did it heal on its own? Or is it still ripped?

    I was stretching too much after months of not stretching, when I got my new place last year. Suddenly felt a sort of sharp pang of pain in my belly. Scared me, immediately stopped the stretch and curled forward around it.

    Later on, noticed I had an umbilical hernia. They had to fix it surgically.

    Really freaked me out. Like, I knew the tissues of my body had a tensile strength beyond which they’d fail, but I always assumed those forces would be like from a car crash or something. Not just a stretch.

    Definitely a weird feeling to realize we’re all just jello of various consistencies wrapped around bones.

    • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      I’m under the assumption it healed on it’s own. The pain is gone and hasn’t come back, although I haven’t lifted nearly as intensely since. I have access to a nurse outside of a hospital so they helped me keep tabs on it, took something around 1.5 months to heal up though.

      The dichotomy of how resilient or fragile our bodies are is wild. I like your analogy of various consistencies of jello.

      Well on the bright side you found out about the hernia, hopefully before it was a serious issue and got it fixed.