If the Higgs field only formed after the Big Bang, how was hydrogen formed? These two statements seem to conflict, but since we're here they can't:


Electrically charged particles cannot be massless.
Hydrogen was created at the moment of the Big Bang.


However, the Higgs field theory states that the field was only created AFTER the Big Bang. This implies that all particles from which hydrogen could be formed were massless. Hydrogen consists of 2 charged particles.

If you could provide an answer without complex math I would really appreciate it.
Hydrogen was not "created at the moment of the big bang".

Particles (leptons and quarks) can attain mass via the Higgs field after the epoch of electroweak symmetry breaking, that occurred about a picosecond $(10^{-12}$s) after the big bang. Only after this was it possible to form the building blocks of hydrogen.

In fact the formation of stable protons comes "much" later at about a millionth of a second. Most of the mass of a proton does not come about from the Higgs field, but from the binding energy of its constituent quarks.

Hydrogen (the atom, rather than the proton nucleus) forms much, much later; about 400,000 years after the big bang.