@invisiblepain2 For me sitting is a hit or miss situation. There are chairs / seats I can sit on for an hour, and others that I can't sit for 5 minutes. The seat in my wife's van causes me pain when I sit in it for a few minutes, but in our car, I can sit in the seat for the trips to and from the doctors without too much pain.

My abdomen has not been tender at all, the pain is only on my right side. As far as the hernia, that's what the tech who read the image said, a small fat-containing umbilical hernia. I have not considered surgery because no one has said anything in regards to doing that. The ER doctor told me there was nothing showing on the CT that would cause the pain I have. She specifically said, "No fluid build-up, no mass, no hernias". At the time (August of 2023), I did some research on this type of hernia, but my condition took precedence over pretty much anything that wasn't causing pain.