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Hernias are tissue and muscle-related injuries that involve the tearing of the tissue, which usually becomes trapped in places where they shouldn’t be. They are common types of injuries with thousands of them being diagnosed every year in a huge chunk of the world population.
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Commonly, hernias are caused by external or internal pressures and might be helped by having an underlying condition (especially ones related to connective tissue) which might make injury more likely.
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This means that hernias aren’t just the type of injury that might affect sportspeople and weightlifters: They are the type of injury that can affect anyone – and at any point in their lives. 
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If you suspect that you might have sustained a hernia, look for some of the symptoms on this list and see your doctor as soon as possible after this: Untreated hernias can be painful, uncomfortable and might turn into worse physical problems from there.
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Here are 14 symptoms of a ventral hernia that you should know.
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1. Some Cases Are Asymptomatic<\/strong>
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If you have developed a ventral hernia<\/a>, then one of the first symptoms you are bound to experience is pain and discomfort. This might happen when you sit down or when you walk, but it might also happen when you turn or press on the affected area or bulging hernia site – and usually, it’s either a dull, nagging pain or a sharp one.\u00a0
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These are usually symptoms that should get you to your doctor as soon as possible: Scans can help to establish the extent of the damage.
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There are also many hernia cases where the person might not show any symptoms: Asymptomatic cases mean that your symptoms might not be that of everyone else – although you might experience discomfort, you might not experience pain. 
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Don’t ignore discomfort: Even if the hernia is mostly asymptomatic, it could still be causing the same type of damage inside your body. See your doctor at the first signs of discomfort, even if no symptoms along with it yet.
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2. Pain in the Stomach<\/strong>
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One of the first symptoms that you are likely to experience with a ventral hernia is pain or discomfort in the stomach<\/a>; this might be located right in the middle of the stomach, but can also be located off-center to the side, somewhere between the ribs and the navel.\u00a0
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The pain is usually sudden and sharp at times, while dull and nagging during others: Pressing the area or putting more strain on the muscle are some of the most common actions that make this type of pain worse – and where it isn’t caused by something like an inflamed gallbladder or intestine, it might be due to a hernia instead. 
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Any type of pain in the stomach – especially pain that comes back or doesn’t go away – should mean you need to see your doctor. If you combine several symptoms on this list, then it becomes even more likely that you might have developed a hernia.
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3. Vomiting and Nausea<\/strong>
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Vomiting <\/a>and nausea are two of the most common symptoms that you will notice in the case of most abdominal hernias, including in most typical cases of a ventral hernia. If you have developed any kind of abdominal hernia, it’s going to place more pressure than needed on the stomach, intestines and surrounding tissues from the inside – and other than the pain, constant nausea is one of the first symptoms you might feel.
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Just like the stabbing or pulsating pain that goes along with having a hernia, vomiting and nausea are bound to be worse with pressing the injury site – and bound to get considerably worse as the hernia is allowed to progress untreated, where it could cause the death of tissue. This can only be seen with the correct scans.
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If you suspect a hernia or if you experience chronic pain, discomfort, vomiting or nausea, the best thing you can do is an appointment with your doctor.
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4. A Constant Feeling of Discomfort<\/strong>
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Hernias can be painful, and they very often are. Pain in the abdominal area that you can’t relate to any other conditions, muscle injuries or temporary ailments are likely to point towards the presence of a potential hernia – and it’s more likely to point towards a hernia in the area if you experience further pain, nausea <\/a>or discomfort when pressing the affected site.
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But pain isn’t the only symptom that you are likely to feel if you have a ventral hernia: Sometimes the symptoms can also include a considerable amount of discomfort together with the rest of your symptoms – and discomfort can be hard to pinpoint or describe, which means that many people just ignore it and move on with their day while making damage to their body worse as a result.
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See your doctor at the first sign of discomfort. Even if you don’t show any other symptoms yet, leaving the injury to chance isn’t going to make you any better. Simple, noninvasive scans can be enough to establish your likelihood of a hernia – and you have to see your doctor to do it!
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5. Pressure in the Herniated Area<\/strong>
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Pain, discomfort <\/a>and vomiting or nausea are common symptoms that can help to indicate that you have a ventral hernia or another type of abdominal hernia; this is more likely if the area hurts when pressed, or causes vomiting to fit immediately when touched – and it’s more likely if you can combine other symptoms that are mentioned on this list with it.\u00a0
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Other than discomfort and pain, the pressure is one of the symptoms that most people with a ventral hernia will report. Sometimes this can go together with bloating, and the felt pressure can either remain as a constant or “come and go” depending on how much strain the injury is placed under. 
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Feeling “pressure” at the site of a hernia is common after exercise, and even more common after eating – particularly if we’re talking about abdominal hernias.
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If you experience any kind of pressure, see your doctor for the proper tests immediately, whether you experience any other symptoms of the condition or not.
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6. Lumps or Knobs Under the Skin<\/strong>
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Lumps <\/a>or knobs felt under the skin are one of the common symptoms that can be associated with hernias; most commonly, these knobs or lumps are found at the physical injury site – and they will cause pain, discomfort, pressure or serious nausea and vomiting when they are pressed, touched or rubbed.\u00a0
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Sometimes hernias feel like they can be “pressed back” into the skin: If you’re able to do this to the lump or knob that you have, it’s important to get yourself to the doctor for the proper scans as soon as possible. Things protruding in this way is one of the surefire signs that you might be dealing with a hernia of some sort.
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Also remember: Once you suspect that you have a hernia, don’t press or rub the area and don’t subject the body to strenuous activities or heavy lifting until you’ve been able to see a doctor for what could be causing it. 
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7. Sensitivity to Touch<\/strong>
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If there’s one golden rule for most types of hernias that might affect the body, it’s that they do not enjoy being pressed or touched. Any pressing or touching on a hernia site is likely to cause discomfort, pain or immediate nausea and vomiting, and you want to avoid doing it.
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Sensitivity <\/a>to touch is likely to indicate a ventral hernia in the right spot: Once you notice this, stop pressing and touching the area and make an immediate appointment with your doctor for scans to get the right condition diagnosed (and of course, treated).
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Where it’s not a hernia, most of the other conditions causing the same symptoms related to pressing the abdomen could be serious ones.
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Other conditions that might cause pressure, pain or discomfort when pressed or touched include an inflamed gallbladder, infected appendix or blockage: These might occur within the same areas that you can expect to feel the pressure and pain that can be associated with a hernia, and it can sometimes be difficult to establish what condition you have – especially where symptoms might cross over.
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8. A Feeling of Heat to the Touch<\/strong>
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A hernia is caused by the tearing or slipping of tissues<\/a>, which then become trapped (and can become necrotic over time as the conditions are left untreated and the tissue is left to decay). This can cause severe infections in the body, and someone might walk around with a progressively worsening infection like this for months or years without seeing their doctor in order to have it checked.
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This infection is likely to cause symptoms such as heat to the touch (at the actual site of the infection and hernia), but might also cause regular stomach upsets, nausea and a constant fever that appears to come and go with time or eventually stays constant in the more advanced forms of the infection.
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If you experience a perpetual fever or heat to the touch for a specific area of the abdomen, seeing your doctor is the only thing left to do. It takes a simple scan, and the discovered infection (if present at all) can be treated with surgery and antibiotics.
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9. Appetite Changes<\/strong>
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Appetite <\/a>changes are one of those symptoms that a lot of people might miss because they attribute it to thinking it’s their lifestyle: Saying that I’m too busy to eat at the end of the day and moving on is one way to ignore what’s really a very serious medical symptom.\u00a0
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if you notice that you have been having less and less of an urge to eat, or you are reacting differently to foods that you once upon a time would have absolutely loved, both are signs that your appetite is being affected by something else in the body.
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A ventral hernia can affect the digestive system. It can affect the digestive system even more if it gets left untreated and undiagnosed – and you might find that your symptoms are getting progressively worse. (By this point, you should have seen your doctor months ago to start with!).
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Other conditions that can cause appetite changes might be just as serious, even if it’s not a ventral hernia. 
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See your doctor for any appetite changes just to be safe, whether or not you are showing other additional symptoms.
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10. Fever<\/strong>
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A hernia isn’t just a condition of the muscle and tissue inside the body: It’s also a condition that can destroy your health from the inside out and might lead to other health conditions as a result, including the dying off of tissue from the pressure the hernia creates – and this results in deep tissue necrosis, which can either turn cancerous or ruin your health even if it doesn’t turn into cancer. 
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If you experience a regular or long-lasting fever<\/a>, your body is reacting to something: See your doctor for a fever if you want to find out the cause – and there’s no other way to do it. Fevers that don’t respond to paracetamol are fevers that have a very serious cause (and in the case of a ventral hernia, it might be a clue towards the progression of the disease).
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Sometimes hernia sites might feel warm to the touch: Other times, this can extend to the whole body – and should be a sign that the disease has been allowed to cause tissue decay. See a doctor immediately.
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11. Sharp, Stabbing Pain (Not Due to Other Conditions) <\/strong>
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Pain is common in the event of a hernia: It usually refers to sharp, stabbing pain or to dull, nagging pain that is located in (or appears to come from) the site of the injury or hernia – and in the case of a ventral hernia, you are most likely to feel this happen in your stomach, at the same place where the muscles <\/a>or tissues might bulge outwards.\u00a0
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Combining some of the symptoms that appear on this list together with this kind of pain makes it more likely that you have a hernia, but even in the absence of combining these symptoms with one another it is considered a good idea to see your doctor and might still indicate the same condition.
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If you cannot find another condition (such as a stomach upset, IBS or blockage) triggering your pain, consider the fact that it might be a hernia. 
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Some people commonly describe hernia pain as sharp and stabbing, but some people might also experience the pain as a dull ache instead.
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12. Weight Loss or Gain<\/strong>
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Changes in appetite, pain, discomfort, nausea, and vomiting are all symptoms that might point towards the presence of a ventral hernia: Other symptoms such as pain felt when pressing on the hernia site together with bulging of the skin can all additionally increase the chances that what you are describing might be a ventral hernia.
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These aren’t the only associated symptoms: Changes in weight can also sometimes mean a hernia, and the weight changes can become more drastic if your hernia gets left untreated and is allowed to progress further.
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Weight loss<\/a> is very common: The pressure caused by the hernia means that consuming food becomes harder with time – and the more the hernia progresses, the harder this can get for the patient.\u00a0
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It can also be the opposite: Weight gain can also sometimes be seen as an after-effect of hernias.
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If you can match any of the symptoms on this list, the best thing you can possibly do is an appointment with your doctor as soon as possible.
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13. Inflammation<\/strong>
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If you have a hernia, you are likely to develop inflammation <\/a>as a result. This happens due to the pressure and discomfort you experience as a result of the hernia, and the subsequent inflammation triggered inside the body can do the same thing as if you had a severe infection inside the body.
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Inflammation is likely to trigger other symptoms on this list such as a fever, and might also trigger symptoms like confusion, lethargy and excessive sweating. The herniated area is likely to be warm to the touch, and you are also likely to experience nausea and vomiting. 
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All of these symptoms are due to the hernia and might point to an additional infection that has taken hold as a result of the tissues starting to die off.
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See your doctor immediately: While surgery can treat the hernia itself, it’s likely that antibiotics are necessary in order to treat the infection or inflammation that the hernia might have subsequently triggered.
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14. Underlying Conditions <\/strong>
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Underlying health conditions can often go together with most types of hernias: These are health conditions which could make your likelihood of contracting these hernias higher – and most of these health conditions are ones that you are born with instead of developing them later on in life. 
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Connective tissue disorders such as Marfan’s and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes<\/a> cause a weakening of the body’s natural connective tissue from birth; this leads to an increased likelihood of developing conditions of the heart, lungs, eyes, bone, and others – and generally, it can increase your risk of developing a hernia during your lifetime.
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Hernias don’t need particularly excessive strain in the case of existing connective tissue disorders: Something as simple as turning around can tear or rupture tissues when connective tissue has been weakened by a connective tissue disorder.
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