Female Hernia

Ladies,

Have you had a doctor ask you to stand while they stick a finger or two up your vagina to check for a hernia? I had a female tell me it happened to her. I have never heard of it.

Never heard of that. Thats not right

No I have never had that done by a doctor.

First of all, the femoral hernia is the most common one in females.

Second, IF a female were to get an inguinal hernia, which is VERY uncommon, the intestine would end up in the labia majora, which is the analogous structure to the scrotum in the male. You would NOT stick a finger far into the vagina to check for this, you would palpate the labia by pressing them in a superior direction. You could also place the finger between the labia and press laterally or by squeezing each labium between the thumb and index and middle fingers to check for thickening.

Have seen this in an australian exam training video for drs. the Dr did not put any finger into the vagina but had the patient stand with legs slightly apart, pull the gown to the side and then placed gloved fingers in the groin region and like for males had the women turn head and cough, she did that on both sides. The fingers were not very close to the labia. I have never had this done and actually have never seen it in any other video or had any other women in chat ever say they have had this done so who knows. The training vid is genuine though.

Lisa

I agree , never heard of such thing , women, don't get tested for hernia's the way men do . What a ridiculus thought .

Search the voy forum´s physical exmas and diagnosis page...a video of that kind of ane xam on a lady was posted there some time ago

Never heard of that, so I've obviously never had it. That doesn't sound right though.