Can you bust internal stitches?

Bad timing for allergies or a cold or whatever the massive amounts of nasal secretions running down my throat and through my nose making me need to cough and blow my nose the day of and in the aftermath of a hernia repair.

That has been the worst part. Coughing and nose blowing creates an amazing amount of pressure on your abdomen. I am told I am an excessive nose blower. Be that as it may, the slightest of pressure, evening laughing at an Every One Love's Raymond rerun hurt.

They told me, don't pick up anything over 5 lbs. Well, I have been able to adhere to that unless pouring a class of water or picking up the Gatorade bottle is more than 5 lbs.

Our son has been great...very gentle and very concerned that I am OK.

So I have not lifted any heavy objects, but bending, laughing, sneezing, coughing, and nose blowing have been painful. Have I damaged the repair before it had time to heal or am I just paranoid???

My surgeon is out of town for the next 3 weeks. I called his main office and the phone just rang and rang and rang and rang. I didn't even know they could still do that! So I called another office number. They said his partner would call me back since I was complaining about excessive reddness and the area around my incision being hot to the touch. Several hours later...they call back and say I should come in tomorrow.

So tomorrow in I go. I am sure he will say it is nothing and go on. My worst fear though is that through my own excessive nose blowing and coughing/gagging on the darn nasal allergy secretions that I might have caused my own trama. Let's hope that the string used to sow my internal hernia was stronger than that!