Does this sound like a hernia?

The area surrounding my belly button is extremely tender and is even painful at times. It has healed great (no infection), but it especially hurts when I bend or get up from a laying down position. Hernias are common with my father (after his operations), so I am just wondering if this is an incisional hernia? This scares me because my dad has had sooo many hernia operations that they recently had to put a screen in his stomach to hold everything in!

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