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i think it is actually caused by anxiety and stress
some people also have stomach aches and lose soft stools
yellow stools
some experience
stomach aches cramps shortness of breath and so on
if its unexplainable
its probably anxiety and stress
i hope you all feel better and enjoy life
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Same deal here. ever once in a while (months apart) I'll be doing something and then all of a sudden it will just hit me and I'll be down for a good 10 minutes, and if I lean back and take a deep breath it will bring the pain back. I thought it might be a hernia at first but those symptoms are totally different. It almost feels like someone yanked on my urinary tract from both ends. If anyone ever finds what this is, that would certainly ease my curiosity.
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aswell i got this pain. i could feel it standing upright, so sloutching helped for that. i could not breath to bring my lung capacity to full.??
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I found out why we get this pain.
Turns out that if you over work your abdominal area and you do not stretch before exsecive or long abodimal use
you get the belly button to penis pain or
belly button to clitoris pain for females.

It isn't so serious as to killing you.
Being in the. Fetal postion for a few hours slowly relieves the abdominal muscle
so the best cure for this is fetal postion or "hunched foward"
I am glad we have atleast one doctor in Chicago who finally found out why this hurts so much and why it happens
I hope this helps and for further patients of this pain
if you have other symptoms aside the string pulling feeling or penis and belly button pain
I recommend you go see a doctor as it may be something worse.


I am suffering from this pain right now in the fetal postion watching tv. I feel like a baby.
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I too get this severe pain except I feel it from my belly button to my scrotum. Just below my button is the worst. Hurts to stand up straight. Usually happens when I have been sitting for a while and then go to stand up or stretch. It's been happening for at least 10 years now. I always used to say I pulled my belly button. From what I can tell by research it seems to be an umbilical hernia. For the first time I am going to see a doctor about this in a couple of weeks. Not too confident they will be able to diagnose this correctly though.
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I HAVE AN ANSWER

I've been looking in these threads for years because I have been having this bellybutton pain all of you speak of for the last 10 years and had my doctors and surgeons roll their eyes at me for ages and saying its just a pulled muscle or sensitive nerves.

The pain was either directly in my bellybutton, radiating like some say to the penis depending on the nature of the pain that day, feeling like there was a string or something attached to everywhere that wouuldnt let me stand up straight, twist, cough; do anything really. TERIIBLE pain that i couldnt summon somehow, and when it came upon me i couldnt make it go away. If i tried peeing, i would have to do so ever so carefully as to not use ANY abdominal force as it wouuld ''tighten'' the string and cause the most obscene painful pain ive ever felt. a pain that hinders the life of so many struggling to find the answer to on the net, because doctors dont give the light of day to a pain that seems so irrelevant because it shows no direct symptoms. I had a ultrasound once, came clean. got checkde for UTI, nothing.
as far back as i can remember in my life, i could never stick my finger in my bellybutton like other kids could, as my bellybutton would get angry at me and shoot that pain temporarily. i know some others have the same symptoms. GOD I HOPE PEOPLE READ THIS! i cant explain the frustration and hindering to my life this simple f*****g problem caused.
ANSWER: umbilical hernia.
I shook my head when i read anything about hernias on here when i was searching for an answer, because there was no lumps, surgeon couldnt feel anything, doctors couldnt feel anything, ultrasound didnt see nothing. But there was a tiny hernia right dead center in my bellybutton that wasnt big enough to bust out into a regular one, but big enough that the layer of tissue on top the abdomen could sometimes get trapped in, causing the attacks that ranged for different amounts of time and regularity dependant upon how long the tissue stayed lodged.
On my last trip to the surgen he could no longer prod my bellybtton because of the amount of pain he wouuld cause, so i ordered he cut me open to see what he could find. he said there was a 50% chance that he would find nothing and i would go on for a little while with a numb bellybutton as the nerves would be divided and i might not be fixed. i said ok do it anyways!
A month passed, i went for surgery 3 days ago. he put me to sleep, and i woke up and he came and guess what. I had a little tiny umbilical hernia that caused me 10 years of grief because it was too small to see, but somehow cause the worse pain rather than the ones that actually bust through.
Im recovering now, and the post op pain compares nothing to the pain that was caused when the attacks would come on.
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, as i know the pain yall are going through and would love to help this get resolved, i wish i had someone like me to talk to the last 10 years of searching for an answer.
Cheers
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The pain is absolutely crippling. Mine originates more from the penis head to the gooch.(area between the balls and anus, accoring to jackass the movie.) I do have pain in the lower abdomen but not as bad as some have described.I currently am experiencing it for the first time and it has lasted for about an hour now. I hope the pain subsides soon.
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Im 16 and i have just recently experienced this pain today (feels like a sharp string attached from belly button to the tip of my penis). when i was peeing it hurt more. i am worried it was an std or something, i have had unprotected sex in the past. im not very athletic either, i spend most of the time at my computer. i just want to know if anyone can clarify that its not an std.
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i get the same pain, once every several months. I think this pain is related to your urinating habits. If you consistently delay going to the bathroom too much (mornings etc) this pain seems more likely to occur. In my opinion it's the bladder getting stressed. But this is just a correlation ive come up with myself. Am no doctor. So I make sure I don't delay going to take a leak too much. Otherwise I'm pretty sure this pain will occur eventually. Hope they find a cure or proper reason for this. It seems to be a mystery illness.
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It took me 5 years and alot of people thinking that I was crazy. But I finally found it online and made the doctor do another ultrasound. I've had multiple scans, so many they dont even like to do a x-ray on me. Have them look for a Urachal Cyst. It causes serious pain in the belley button and the penis at the same time. You cant breath deep, bend over or even get up out of a chiar. You can also look it up on you tube to see one being removed. Does the pain go away after a long night sleep for you?
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Yes i have had this since i was a kid as well. i am now 39 and just had umbilical hernia surgery and they found nothing. they only did because it might have been a small one that didn't show up on ct scan. i have asked Dr's in the past and they just look at u like your f*****g nuts. its real doctors and you jerks need to find a way to stop this f*****g pain!!

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I know exactly what you guys are talking about. I get once every 6 months or so. Nothing serious at the moment, and I hope it's not a long lasting event and hope it's not a symptom for something serious in the future. Yikes!
Also, if I may, I'm really lazy and sometimes I don't go to the loo, meaning I don't take a sh*t and I force it back in. I have been doing it for past 2 days and today morning when I woke up, it started to hurt so much (my belly button and the head of my penis) ... I was struggling in my bed and the only
way I could get rid of the pain was to sleep straight and look up. Then I went to the loo and did my business, and the pain stopped instantaneously. 
It is a bit embarrassing, but hey, it works.
My conclusion is that, it's just a stomach ache/cramp.
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Currently an 18 year old male with an innie belly button.
I'm having the belly button to penis pain just like you other guys except no pain during urination thankfully. It started with a weird tingling sensation in my belly button and then three days later I woke up having to pee really bad. I went to the bathroom and got ready for school and had a few minutes to spare before I had to leave so I laid back down on my bed. It was time to go to school and while I was setting up it felt like the cord thing ripped all the way from my belly button to the tip of my penis. I went to the hospital because it was unbearable only to be told it was a strained muscle because the x-rays showed no sign of a hernia. The doctor said that it would go away in a few days but it didn't. I went back to the hospital three days later and got a CT scan and a urine sample done. They told me that I had a prostate infection which is very unusual for a male my age. Two days later I went to a urologist and she said that it wasn't a prostate infection and that she thought it was an appendicitis.  I went to a better hospital than before to see if it was an appendicitis and the doctor there said that it wasn't and that he thought something could be wrong with my appendix on my testicles. I got an ultrasound on my scrotum and it revealed nothing as well. So far the hypothesis of it being shortened ligaments that connect your umbilical zone to your urethra makes a lot of sense as well as "Cord Clamping", "Umbilical Shock Syndrome", and a "Urachal Cyst."I am going to go over these possibilities with my doctor to see what he thinks. Oh and by the way, the doctors gave me an antibiotic called "Doxycylcone" for when they thought it was the prostate infection and it helped the pain to start to recede some so this may help you other people as well. The thoughts of having to live with this for the rest of my life are horrible and it could all be from our doctors cutting our umbilical cords too short when we were born. From now on, everyone post if there belly button goes in or out in future posts because this could be a possible cause of this horrible medical phenomenon. I hope that everyone that's having this problem gets better and maybe we can all come together to figure out this mystery. 
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ive had that same pain for years, i don think its a kidney stone either cuz it doesnt last very long and nothing ever comes out,  i think it has something to do with nerves, because
IVE FOUND A FIVE MIN CURE FOR IT!
MASTURBATE!
lol in all seriousness it works great, whenever i get the pain i just jack it, and then it goes away, thats why i think it has something to do with the nerves in ur penis/bladder, soo yeah just jack off and u wont have to wait a few hours for it to go away
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I first experienced the pain you describe when I was 16. I was laying in the fetal position after eating and decided to stretch, for some reason I stretched rather fast and felt the most excruciating pain right below my navel into my penis. It felt like a cord of painful nerves directly in the center of my abdomen. Let me clarify that this pain does not feel like it's internal or on the surface, rather it feels like its right underneath the skin , but above the muscle. Over the next 5 years or so the pain one occur a few times a year, one thing I noticed is that with increased frequency the pain was usually less intense however if I went several months without it happening the pain was extreme. I'm 24 now and about 3 years ago I connected some dots and realized that the pain was being caused by digestion and irregularity in bowel movements. when I reached his epiphany it made sense since often the pain was triggered after eating and once was relieved by eating. After this realization I ramped up my diet with fiber and healthier less processed foods(junk food, frozen dinners, . I try to avoid foods that give you indigestion. I developed a diet for myself, it's kind of a regimen of foods that I eat every single day that keep me regular. This consists of: 
Raisin Bran (breakfast)
Turkey sandwich on wheat with baby spinach and cheese( there are high fiber breads out there if it helps)
2 apples
A granola bar or granola cereal
about 2 handfuls of baby carrots or carrot chips(raw)
baby spinach salad
bowl of yogurt with bran buds

This is what I eat everyday in addition to one large meal for dinner, I'm not really a health nut or anything I  just try to keep my food as simple as possible if that makes sense. After Is started eating better the pain became infrequent, but would still pop up occasionally. About a year ago I came to the conclusion that diet was only one component and that regular exercise with focus on the core was also a determinant. This also made sense seeing as often the pain would be triggered by lifting something or some kind of manual labor. After connecting those dots I started exercising more and have only had the pain 3 times in the past year. The pain is far less intense now, sometimes I don't even realize it's there until I urinate.  I also noticed that my navel is shaped a little different now. It's shallower where as it was deeper witch is odd seeing as I'm a pretty skinny person. I think the depth of the navel plays apart in this somehow. I've been to two doctors over the years and neither of them knew what it was. The last  doctor told me that the next time it occurred to go to the ER and ask for a abdominal CT scan since the last CT scan I had was a pelvic scan and revealed nothing. The doctors were not very helpful and even though the pain has has occurred since then i have not gone to the ER because it sounds pointless. My next step is to talk to a plastic surgeon because there are procedures that reshape the navel and I think that's the source of the pain. I also find it strange that I can't seem to get rid of the tiny amount of fat around the navel area.

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