I also noticed that if I relax all my stomach muscles, my belly button behaves as it normally would. However if I tense all my stomach muscles that is when it feels like the tube is sticking out and disconnected...


Could it be a umbilicus hernia?

Please tell me anything you can. Kinda freaking me out...........

Here is what I could find on umbilical hernias in adults.

Umbilical hernias often occur in adulthood because of progressive and significant tension on the congenital area of weakness beneath the navel. This develops through the normal stresses and strains of daily activity. Standard techniques still widely utilized today attempt to repair these hernias by simply closing the muscle defect with sutures placing the muscle tissue under significant tension. Often in these older method repair techniques, muscle layers are overlapped. Such suturing not only recreates the muscle layer tension that originally created the hernia defect, but too often this process also weakens adjacent tissue layers as well. Moreover, this leads to unnecessary pulling of the tissues at the hernia area. We know that any tension on sutured muscles inhibits normal healing and causes swelling, pain and prolonged recuperation. These older suture-only techniques have been shown to be less effective than tension free mesh repairs with a significantly higher recurrent hernia rate later on.


Hope that helps.