Sharp Pulling Pain in Belly Button - Part 2

Never really happened to me before. Stopped goin to the gym for a couple months cause I was injured. I was gradually getting back into liftin but I went hard the other day especially on my abs. Did planks for the first time among other things. The wee button started hurting after that.

I've had the same feeling for a long time and never checked it out I'm 20 I've had it since I was about 12 guess I should look into that you so much

When I 6 years old, I had 3 kidney stones. Currently, I have an ovarian cyst. Today I felt this pain. I have no idea what it could be. My guess is that the kidney stones are reoccurring.

This seems to be irritable bowel syndrome after looking at pictures and comparing symptoms, look it up see if it's the same for you as it is for me

I am so glad to know that I am not alone in this terrible sensation. I'm female, almost 23 and this has been happening to me ever since early puberty, perhaps even earlier. It's been going on so long, I don't recall exactly when it started. It's always random and always painful. Sometimes to the point of immobility. I'm actually experiencing it as I write this, and I'm nearly in tears it hurts so badly. I'm home alone as my boyfriend works 3rds. I'm just hoping I don't have to drive myself to the emergency room tonight. Last time the pain was this bad, I had to go to Urgent Care and the doctors looked at me strangely. I didn't know how to describe the pain I was in until I found the "pulling string" description online and showed it to my attending doctor during his initial examination of me. He read it and furrowed his brow in confusion. He'd never seen anything like it before but thought it could possibly have something to do with the remnants of what still exists of my umbilical cord. Other than that, he had no theories. He gave me some pills for the pain and sent me home with instructions to go directly to the ER if the lain got any worse. Luckily, this episode only lasted the one night. They don't usually last more than a day or two. As far as I'm aware, I've never been pregnant so I know that can't have anything to do with it. I don't have chronic UTI but don't currently have one and haven't had one in nearly a year. Also, I'm in the middle of ovulation with my period due to start in 2 weeks so I highly doubt that has anything to do with it. I'm just so desperate to know what the problem is. I know it doesn't happen often, but when it does I'm in so much pain I can hardly move for hours on end. Like right now. I haven't been able to move from my couch without doubling over for about 4 hours now.

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Im 17 years old and male. I have extrme gastro issuess specifically with constipation and I have been experiencing this pain for about 2 years now and it always happens after/ during exercise or sex. It feels like a knife entering my belly button and nothing sooths it but using the bathroom. Im on the toilet right now and I dont know what to do. If I stand it will get worse but if I sit here Im going to get in trouble. Deep breaths hurt too. Best of luck everyone :(

I never knew anyone else experienced this! That pain behind my belly button that feels like it's being ripped and I can't move. And the sensation continues into my bladder and pelvic area, it goes away after an hour or so every time but what happens to me is I wake up in this pain. I will sit up out of bed, with usually a full bladder and go to move and I'll feel that pain. When I stand up I can't stand up all the way or it makes it feel worse, like it will rip something if I stand up all the way. No one has ever said they experienced this so I'm so happy I found this thread. I wish I knew what this was though.

I've had the same pains, I just got over a severe bladder infection that got in my blood stream and spread to my kidneys, I've felt these pains before but not as bad as recently, it would be so painful it would leave me breathless. I would go to pee and I would still hurt mostly when I moved, it seemed like of I stretched it would hurt worse kind of like a ripping I have no idea what it is.

I posted on this sometime last year I believe it was. Since I haven't seen anybody mention that they've done what I suggested, which has worked very well for me, I think it's safe to say that my advice has been largely disregarded. I've had this issue since my mid/late teens and I first started searching the internet sometime around 2000. I would search periodically, but never found any related forums or information until a few years ago, when I really ramped up my search efforts, after discovering my daughter also suffers from this. Since then I've been reading and researching everything I could find on it and I've come to the following conclusion: it's due to nerve irritation immediately behind the belly button, which causes a tightening of the muscles and connective tissues attached to your urinary system. Partly to blame is remnants of the umbilical connection that we all have while in the womb.

The catalyst for the irritation, I believe, can vary for some people but for me it was usually hair or lint in my belly button. I went from having a string pain episode almost monthly to only having one in the last 2 years. This is what I did to dramatically reduce the frequency: I cleaned out my belly button. I found some small hairs way to the back and in the folds/wrinkles of my button and got them all out with tweezers. I now also check it for lint a few times a day and make sure to keep it clean. I also found that not being properly hydrated will help to bring on the condition. This is because those muscles, nerves, and tissues I mentioned earlier will tighten and become more sensitive if not properly hydrated. FYI, your average person requires 1/2 gallon of water daily for proper hydration. That's 64oz of water; slightly more than three 20oz bottles per day so if you're not drinking enough water you're helping to set yourself for the string pain.

A little about myself for comparative purposes:
I'm male, 34 years old. I've been fat and I've been fit, with neither seeming to have any impact on the string pain. I never had any relief or means to prevent the string pain prior to everything I told you above. If nothing else has worked for you then I urge you to up your water intake and clean out your button and remove any lint, hair, or other debris as soon as possible before it has a chance to cause irritation. Doctors can not, and will not cure you of this because they don't have a pill for it. I also have some methods for easing the pain when it does come on so feel free to email directly:

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Just to add to this: Things that seem to irritate it- Alcohol (either because it makes you urinate more frequently, or dehydrates you, or a combination of both), excess of caffeine without being hydrated.
Ive had no correlation between the belly button being clean or not, but I try to keep my clean to be on the safe side anyways.
Also when it does happen, limiting your movement makes it go away quicker, trying to drink some water as well.

I've had all these symptoms for years. I'm a 31 year-old male and have had this happen for years, since I was a child. I went to the doctor when I was a teenager for this, and he felt my prostate and concluded this was a prostate infection and gave me antibiotics. Not sure whether to rule this out because I still get it, however, being a teenager my parents had to basically remind me to take the antibiotics and some days I missed even though I took them all eventually. They may not have worked correctly due to this. All that said, I'm going again next month to see what happens. I saw my flight surgeon (I was in the Army) a few years ago and he immediately thought this was an STD at first, so he had my blood taken to screen for anything, and came up negative. I went to a doctor on the German economy who did an ultrasound and basically shrugged his shoulders when that didn't find anything. It wasn't something that affected my daily life or my duties so I stopped trying to figure it out up to now. It happens on and off even now, no predicting it, and sometimes will go on for a couple days with me, or subside one day then happen again the next day. The pain will usually go on all day before subsiding.

I see people saying you should bend over further to get it to go away, but I've found that sometimes, if I'm not realizing this is happening again and I'm sitting down and bend over to pick something up, this will flare up the pain. I can't stretch out or bend down, and peeing makes it worse. I get the urge to pee like my bladder is full, then I go to the bathroom and don't produce much urine. On top of all this, I typically get a slight nauseous feeling that I barely notice (but enough to figure out the pain is coming again) until I pee or stretch out and end up doubling over in pain. I don't know if this is the same as y'all, but that is what accompanies it when it happens to me.

All of this is to say that in this day and age, doctors have so many patients (and this isn't to excuse them) that it might be overwhelming for them to investigate this problem further when they can't really give a definitive diagnosis. That's why you really have to be assertive with your doctor. When you see him or her, tell them everything. Tell them your diet and nutrition habits, things you eat and drink, tell them your ideas on what you think it might be and ask them to check specifically for symptoms or other evidence of those things. Print out all of these responses, even, and take this to your doctor. If your doctor shrugs his shoulders and dismisses it after he can't give a clear diagnosis, assert yourself and ask for a referral to a specialist or ask what else it might be that they can think of. Your typical family doctor is not House, M.D. and literally doesn't have the time to bust out their scientist hat and do research, nor are they likely to have a House M.D. epiphany that you have lupus, so a referral is in your best interest usually. Assert yourself with specialists too. This particular problem causes excruciating pain under certain circumstances, but if it's not an everyday thing and not life-threatening, I'm willing to bet you have the time to go to multiple doctor visits over a few months to get the problem isolated and hopefully taken care of. I can't stress this enough. This will take time even with the best doctors. Don't take "I don't know" for an answer. Besides, when you get tired enough of this pretty much debilitating pain, "I don't know" won't cut it.

the cure is to pull down on your belly buttoon

Its called constipation

don't worry...its not hernia
i am a boy and i have been experiencing it too..i think it has something to do with constipation and less than required intake of liquids...thats all
it comes and goes...just start drinking more water than usual in routine.. :-)