Belly Button Is Disconnected...? Posted: 03-14-06 21:43pm
Umm... Really weird, but woke up this
morning and felt that my belly button
feels like it is disconnected, where
before it felt like the inner part was
rigid and attached, now I can move it a
full circle, and it feels as if the inner
"tube" is touching my intestines. What
could this be?
Please help.
Thanks.
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d0njuand3marc0
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 2
Posted: 03-15-06 01:25am
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...........
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Morning_Glory
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 207 Location: NE Ohio
Posted: 03-15-06 12:45pm
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.
