Hi, I have a large hernia which 'just keeps on growin'. It started off as an egg, grapefruit, gala melon, honeydew and is now giant water melon!!! However, I am very lucky as it doesn't cause me too much bother. I wear a specially designed truss with a hole for the bag, and sometimes wear hernia support underwear on top, but find that this can cause pancaking at times. Physically it is very unsightly, disgusting is the word I use, but I can not have surgery unless it becomes strangulated due to other health issues. If for any reason I get a terrible pain in it (not often), I lay down flat and hope that this will straighten out any kinks that have formed. So far this has worked!! I also have to watch everything I eat and have now just started taking Fybogel so as not to become constipated. I have to say that the worse thing about it all is that I have had to change to drainable bags as it is such a pain to take the truss off and such what to change when you are out, and as I have a colostomy it can be a job draining it (hence the Fybogel!! The only advice I would offer to people is that everybody should wear support underwear if they get bronchitis (which is how mine started), or are doing any DIY or heavy stuff like moving. It might not be pretty but it helps in the long run.
Mooza, I hope your hernias are on the mend, and don't go lifting any of those boxes at your supplies place!!