Here's what I've gathered together since my last pain on 5/16:
- it's NOT a uti
- I get it primarily if my bladder is full, if I get up suddenly after sitting for so long, or both
-i had never had a problem with urinating until the very last time I experienced the pain, and when I peed, it felt like the whole pulling my insides out of my urethra feeling
-my mom works at a doctors office and has never heard of it
-I only get it about 1-3 times a month and it lasts for like 10-30 min, though sometimes ill feel effects for longe
- it's been happening as long as I can remember
- it's NOT a uti
- I get it primarily if my bladder is full, if I get up suddenly after sitting for so long, or both
-i had never had a problem with urinating until the very last time I experienced the pain, and when I peed, it felt like the whole pulling my insides out of my urethra feeling
-my mom works at a doctors office and has never heard of it
-I only get it about 1-3 times a month and it lasts for like 10-30 min, though sometimes ill feel effects for longe
- it's been happening as long as I can remember
I'm 17, I'm a dude, and I've been noticing it for a few years now.
It happens most often as I'm either peeing, or getting up to go pee. Both on a full bladder usually. Usually it IS after I've been hunched over, as today.
I really don't care how to get it to go away, I'm just glad others feel it, and I'd like to know what exactly is going on.
My theory goes something like this:
After being hunched over for long enough, for one, the rectus abdominus muscle would most likely compress to some degree.
As you stand up quickly, I think that's where most of that pain comes from.
But when you've got to pee, my guess is that a swollen bladder stretches your linea alba, or a tendinous inscription. Which in and of its self, with enough pressure will hurt. Then when you stand it's only stretching the connective tissue and your [formerly compressed] abs without giving the things proper time to do so.
tldr; I feel these posts.
17/m
My theory: The pain is caused by hyper-straining the compressed lower part of the rectus abdominus (compressed from sitting)
Coupled with a swollen/full bladder stretching the connective tissue between sections of the muscle.
Therefore yes, heat really should do the trick. Also remembering to ease yourself up, I've done so by recognizing the feeling I get before I have the pain and preparing myself. Usually slowly stretching works.
It happens most often as I'm either peeing, or getting up to go pee. Both on a full bladder usually. Usually it IS after I've been hunched over, as today.
I really don't care how to get it to go away, I'm just glad others feel it, and I'd like to know what exactly is going on.
My theory goes something like this:
After being hunched over for long enough, for one, the rectus abdominus muscle would most likely compress to some degree.
As you stand up quickly, I think that's where most of that pain comes from.
But when you've got to pee, my guess is that a swollen bladder stretches your linea alba, or a tendinous inscription. Which in and of its self, with enough pressure will hurt. Then when you stand it's only stretching the connective tissue and your [formerly compressed] abs without giving the things proper time to do so.
tldr; I feel these posts.
17/m
My theory: The pain is caused by hyper-straining the compressed lower part of the rectus abdominus (compressed from sitting)
Coupled with a swollen/full bladder stretching the connective tissue between sections of the muscle.
Therefore yes, heat really should do the trick. Also remembering to ease yourself up, I've done so by recognizing the feeling I get before I have the pain and preparing myself. Usually slowly stretching works.
I can't believe this. I'm not alone. How is it that there is no answer? I can't tell you how many times Ive been to the doctor about this and how many times I've had a pelvic exam to be told Im fine. At least I know Im not insane. Btw female 23 years old, and its been an issue since around puberty for me. After reading everyones posts these are the commonalities I see;
-Pulling pain behind belly button (Like a String)
-Pain often links and pulls to genital area and urethra
-Linked to dehydration
-Similar in feeling to a UTI
-Random intervals between occurrences.
We should start a study or something, or hell I might even print this out to show my doctor, maybe it will help him understand.
ive had this pain for 20 odd years but when i was in portugal it just went after a week the only thing i did different was drink spring water fresh from the mountain when i came back it reoccurred after a month i found a local spring and just drink that water and im cured! so try going to
http://www.findaspring.com/ hope this helps
I have the same issue too. I have always thought it was UTI, but when I saw my doctor, he said constipation can press on umbilical nerves, causing the pain to travels down to the privates. I hope you all get it sorted!
I don't know how to thank you for your advise.I was crawling, this pain does not go away.i just try it and i can walk better.Thank you so much
So, I've read a lot of information on here tonight and here's what I've come up with.
First and foremost, relief. I'm not the only one! Yay!
OK, so I'm a male, 17 years old. BAM: automatically disproves anything relating only to women: IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PREGNANCY OR MONTHLY CYCLE.
I just woke up at 6 in the morning with the pain. Yesterday, I did nothing. I played videogames. A lot of sitting. BAM: automatically disproves anything relating to strain: I DID NOT WORK OUT.
I can still remember the very first time I got this pain. It was in middle school, 6th grade I think. I was walking down the hall, suddenly decided to straighten up (posture-wise), and then I just felt an excruciating pain around that "string" that seems to connect the bellybutton to the groin area. I literally got this big :O face, I was just in complete shock from the pain. I hunched over again, walked over to the side of the hall, and sat down with my back to the wall. And I just sat there for like 10 minutes. When I stood up again, the pain was gone.
Anyways, it's been happening off-and-on since then. Sometimes it has been after a day of strain, but I honestly believe that to be only coincidence.
For me, once the pain starts, it doesn't take more than an hour to go away as long as I don't irritate it in any way. So if it happens in the middle of the night, I don't go back to sleep. Every time I've tried that it comes back to me in my sleep and wakes me up again.
Also, for me, I've found the best way to deal with it while urinating is to lean forward as far as I can and then release the urine as slowly as I possibly can. I read somewhere earlier on that one woman couldn't lean forward when it was happening or the pain got worse. So if you try this and it doesn't work, STOP IMMEDIATELY.
I've found that the best way to deal with this problem is to just avoid the pain at all costs until it goes away entirely. But again, that's just me. Some of the cases I've read about seem to be more advanced, to the point where they simply can't ignore it. Since I'm only 17, perhaps it gets worse the older you get?
Anyways, one thing that I read that did strike a chord with me was something about yeast and taking in a lot of sugar. Both males and females do have SOME form of yeast in their bodies. And I've never eaten healthily. Soda is just my drink. Yesterday I had a ton of sweet tea and Coca Cola. I had some mini chocolate donuts for breakfast. Some grapes after dinner.
Of the things I've read, that seems to be the only thing that would be relevant to me. Someone mentioned the application of heat being able to help... my A/C has been out all summer. It's 90 degrees in here. I don't think it has anything to do with temperature.
Someone said something about it being a gas. That's just not true. A gas form a little bubble, like a pocket of air at a random point inside your body. It can cause serious pain, but this is just something different. It's like a power line being overcharged with a sudden, extreme intake of electricity. Only the power line joins your bellybutton to your groin.
ANYWAYS, hope this helps someone. If someone is reading this and the only logical explanation I've come to - it being due to too much sugar - doesn't apply to you (i.e. you eat extremely healthy, like, one-day-i-plan-on-becoming-a-professional-bodybuilder healthy) then post it, so other people know that that's not it! But I hope it is, because eating too much sugar has an easy fix: eat less sugar.
DITTO. This last recurrence (Like most ppl on this thread, I've had this exact same thing for many years, usually separated by months) happened today on a fast during which I have been drinking non stop. My bladder wasn't especially full, but it certainly was somewhat.
I have always suspected this to be somehow related to the umbilical cord. But I don't think a full bladder causes it - especially since the pain often occurs or intensifies for me at the very end of urinating, as if the contraction of the emptying bladder is irritating it.
The theory about the Urachus is very interesting and I think provides the most likely explanation. When I read it, it confirmed what I had always vaguely suspected from the way it felt.
I have always suspected this to be somehow related to the umbilical cord. But I don't think a full bladder causes it - especially since the pain often occurs or intensifies for me at the very end of urinating, as if the contraction of the emptying bladder is irritating it.
The theory about the Urachus is very interesting and I think provides the most likely explanation. When I read it, it confirmed what I had always vaguely suspected from the way it felt.
I'm a 12 year old female and I have been getting this pain for 8 dreadful years. everytime I try to tell someone they look at me like I am crazy. I have read almost every post on this 10 page forum and can conclude that dehydration is the cause. lifting something can also cause it if it is mixed with not drinking enough water. also not eating healthy can be a factor. lastly having a full bladder is definite. I know that the first time I experienced this pain we when I was 4 at a diner and I had to go to the bathroom. that day I had to help carry stuff with our race cars and I had eaten a lot of junk from the snack shack. I still get the "string" pain a lot because the pain isn't always on my mind. when I don't have it I don't think about what I eat and do can cause. also, for the people that said that the pain lasts an hour or 2. ur wrong. mine lasts a day. the longest being a week. at the moment I am laying down with a heating pad. it seems to help. I have also found that stretching it for about 5 minutes can help. but Ed do that is very torturous. I am lucky today that the weather is bad so I have an excuse to be laying down.
good luck to u all!
I have no idea what this pain is, but I have had it off and on since I was a teenager and am now 33. I had always suspected it was partly due to the depth of my belly button (I can stick an entire q-tip into it and only see the very tip) and that it had developed an adhesion that would sometimes be painful. It seems to run the lower end of the Linea Alba ligament that runs on the center line. The description by the original poster of a string being pulled is perfect. Its like a taught string that is going to rip if you stand up straight or even worse arch your back. I would have to be in a 90 degree angle and when I was young I'd always go to the bathroom to pee and that would seem to factor in slightly, but it would be painful to pee and would not go away at that point but lingered for awhile.
I am actually going to discuss it with my doctor next week because altho it hasn't flared for awhile I now have abdominal swelling and discomfort and wondering if it would factor in somehow.
I am actually going to discuss it with my doctor next week because altho it hasn't flared for awhile I now have abdominal swelling and discomfort and wondering if it would factor in somehow.
Me too, i dont know what is it, but it scare me. I went to the bathroom and I felt pulling pain in my belly button I though urien infection so I took pill for it, but I dont think it is. So I try massage around my belly now it gone!
I am 30 years old, male I have this pulling sensation, it started when I was about 14 years old. Honestly I know this is kind of too much info for some readers, but it seems to only occur shortly after ejaculation, very rare occasion, mid late summer, when I drink lots of water.
24 year old male here. I am truly thankful I have found this thread with people like me who have this problem. Anyway I have been having the sharp string like pain from my belly button to the tip of my urethra for atleast 4-5 years. Just recently I had it after I played golf all day and was sitting in a car for about 30 minutes. As soon as I got out of the car the shooting pain started. I have found that SLOWLY stretching into a straighter posture relieves the pain, although this does hurt a lot, but you must go extremely slow and about 5% farther back each time.
I had recently just started drinking a lot of water the past few days. A gallon a day aprox to start hydrating better because I work out 4-5 days a week. I am sure that I have gotten this pain though in years past when I wasn't working out or drinking a lot of water.
My theory is that it is somehow connected to constipation. As drinking a lot of water keeps you regular, it could have something to do with that but I'm not sure and would REALLY like to get this diagnosed.
One thing I noticed was that It got really bad when I caught Mono (mononucleiosis). I got a bladder infection and a UTI from having mono so I'm not sure if what I was feeling was just the infection or the original problem.
Exaaaaaactly!! I've been dealing with exactly what you have described to the smallest detail for 20 years. Went to the doctor and they couldn't figure it out. Curious if you've found anything since you posted this.
I have this exaaact same issue, and I consume quite a bit of sugar. Might have something there.