I was diagnosed with an inguinal hernia, I am a 76 year old female. I saw the doctor today (surgeon), and he confirmed it is an inguinal hernia. He felt it and I yelped in pain when he touched the protrusion on my lower left side. I liked the doctor and so we scheduled surgury in about 3 weeks. My question is about pain in my stomach area as well as the groin. I wonder (and I will call and ask him, but it's Friday and I must wait until Monday) if it is common that pain would radiate to the stomach also from the hernia. I mentioned pain is in my stomach area also but he did not comment on that, he was concentrating on the inguinal hernia. So naturally I'm hoping that the operation will take care of the hernia, but I wonder if something else is going on in my stomach. Here's why also: several months ago I overate a lot (I have since lost weight and try never again to eat like a maniac), and experienced horrible, horrible pain in my stomach area, vomiting and losing my feces. Never happened like that before. I'm wondering if my stomach will be better once he fixes the inguinal hernia. I mentioned this to him, but he did not talk about my stomach. Only my inguinal hernia.