Rocco, do you know how to search old posts on this site? There’s lots of wisdom on sleeping through the night. Do a search for “peanut butter” and you’ll find a lot of them. If you can’t figure out how to do a search, just ask.
Hernia surgery is an operation directly on the wall of the abdomen. While there are a variety of techniques, all of them will have to repair the abdominal wall, whereas the less invasive surgeries are mostly about getting *past* the abdominal wall with as little cutting as possible. You can ask a couple of surgeons whether they’d be willing to remove some adhesions during the hernia surgery, but it’s no better than about 50/50 that it will help you.
If you use your toilet seat covers every time, that’s only three times per day. Are all the rest of your bathroom visits at work?