'As a woman you're just told to deal with these symptoms,' Lydia Southam says about her cancer diagnosis and struggle to be taken seriously Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work ...

An inguinal hernia occurs when tissue pushes through a weak spot in the abdominal wall near where your abdomen meets your thigh. It’s less common in women because this area is smaller in females.

Suki Waterhouse recently said that she got a hernia from wearing tight pants. This is far from the only surprising way people can develop a hernia. The health issue needs to be corrected with surgery.

'As a woman you're just told to deal with these symptoms,' Lydia Southam says about her cancer diagnosis and struggle to be taken seriously Lydia Southam was misdiagnosed for two years before a female ...