hernia and ww workout...

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does anyone know if its ok to do the workout and particularily the firebreathing if you have a hernia? thanks for any info. Denise

I do not know the answer to this and strongly suggest you ask your medical practitioner. It's possible stomach vacuums could aggravate an abdominal hernia, but my instincts suggest they might actually relieve it - yoga has always had return to health as a primary focus and I wonder if these sorts of exercises were created to reverse hernias as well as prolapsed abdominal organs. I really have no way of knowing for sure and would feel terrible if your condition worsened. xChristine

I would say get your hernia fixed - For this reason...

I had a hernia... The hernia one night decided to get stuck through the hole and I was taken into hospital as an emergency - As you can die from this! (A strangulated hernia)

Personally having had a hernia twice - I would get it seen to, or askyour Dr before doing anything that could aggravate it

:-)

Sometimes you are holding someone else's heart whithin your hands. You can drop that heart & bruise it. You can squash that heart & hurt it. Or you can stomp on it & totally annihalate it. You stomp on that heart or bruise it. It can forever be changed.