Let me clarify, your hernia is getting worse whether you do PE or not. Doing PE isn’t helping it in no way, but you should be fine doing everything but hanging. I wouldn’t do any hanging if I were you.
The hernia will keep increasing in size, until you have the surgery. PE, lifting heavy things, gravity will all be contributing to this.
By the way, the surgery is a breeze. You go in they dope you up, you don’t care about anything, you blink, 5 hours has passed, before you know it they are sending you home.
*This is very important, this is the only place I had a problem so listen carefully. They tell you not to eat 24 or 12 hours before surgery. Of course don’t eat, but also be sure to drink water. Stay hydrated, if you go in dehydrated they will have trouble finding your veins. And they will dig and dig it took them like 20 minutes to find a vein because I went in dehydrated. So drink water.
* Another important tip, if you can get through the surgery without a decathater that would be wonderful. This was the worse part for me. It hurt like a motherfucker taking a piss after that thing was rammed up my urethra! You don’t want a decathater. It hurt to piss for a week.