^^Moksha, you can't say that for sure. Only a doctor can, which is why those of us with sense are encouraging him to go see one.

Inguinal hernias are very common in young men and present wtih precisely the symptoms he's having. And they don't make everyone scream on the floor by any means. But Gothen, if that is what it is and you end up with a bigger herniation and strangulate a small piece of bowel in the inguinal canal, you will be screaming, both from pain and when you end up having to pay a surgeon and a hospital bill.