Lump on my stomach...help!!!!!

[hayleybabe84]

Please help!!! I really could do with some advice.
after I gave birth to my second child I noticed I was having trouble with bad stomach pain. Believing it to be normal I ignored it and just took things easy for a few weeks.
My weight came down to 10 and a half stone but I was still having these stabbing pains in the top of my stomach.
Two months after having my baby the doctor gave me the all clear so I decided to start going to the gym to loose the rest of my baby flab but within weeks the pain became almost unbearable and I noticed a lump going from my sternam to the top of my tummy button. It was very sore and hurt like hell to touch.
I went to my GP and he told me it was normal and that I should contine you do gentle excercise and gave me excercises to do INCLUDING SIT UPS!! So on his advice, I did everything he told me to do...afterall he's a doctor so I assumed knew what he was talking about. After about 4 weeks of agony, the pain was worse ( I couldnt even stand straight) and that "normal" lump had become bigger.

Its been nearly two years since all this began and I have gone back and fourth to the doctors only to be fobbed off every time!
I can no longer excercise and can bearly walk without a buggy to hold on to.
Ive also been unable to return to my job and Im feeling so depressed about the whole thing.....and to make matters worse, I have gained 7 stone since all this began so now when I go to the doctors, he blames it on my weight even though he knows last year I wasnt even over weight yet had exactly the same problem.
Im over weight because I can barely move and unfortunately because I feel so down all the time, I comfort eat.

How a doctor can think a painful 9 inch lump on my stomach and weight gain from 10 and a half to nearly 18 stone in less than two years is perfectly normal I dont know!

I just dont know where to turn or what to do . I feel mentally drained, stressed and so alone.
Not one doctor has been able to tell me what the hell is going on with my stomach.

Just any information you guys have Id be ever so grateful.....

Sorry my post is so long and drawn out. I just felt I needed to explain in a little more detail...

You need to see another doctor.

Sympathies and ((hugs)) - see another doctor. it does not sound normal.

ok, well without being qualified it does sound as though there is some abdominal separation and you have a hernia or similar - maybe? I am just guessing.

How horrid for you, please please see another doctor and you might need to complain about your present one.

I hope you can get an appointment today xx

and for you. Hernia was my thought too, without knowing anything about it.

One bit of advice on changing doctors. I was going to a while back, after a problem with ours, and found another GP in our area with whom I could register. But I was told I needed an interview with them before they would take me on. I prepared all sorts of answers as to why I needed to change (said there wasn't a female GP at my current practice, which was true, though not the real reason I wanted to change). The new GP was very sweet but said he had to make sure that there wasn't an outstanding problem with my existing GP, as the policy is to resolve problems with your GP, not to take them elsewhere.

So . . . find a new GP first. Give bland positive reasons for wanting to change (easier to get to? nearer a bus route? easier to park? more female doctors at the new practice . . .?) and get yourself well looked after - then complain later if you need to

When I saw the title I thought probably hernis but after reading your post I now wonder about diastasis recti

"hernia"