Lower abdomen pain but NOT a hernia

I had this kind of pain and it happens sometimes now too. In India this is common problem due to excessive weight lifting of putting pressure on abdominal muscles. It happens due to slithly shifting of a vein besides navel .It should be put back to nevel then only u'll feel better.

How to do it:

Firstly lay down and make a pinch by joining your right hand thumb and index finger of same hand.

put it in your navel and press it down, if you feel pulse there then everything is fine ,What if not?

Then you have to press by you palm besided your navel to check where is the pulse.once you find it then rub it towerds your navel with a little pressure for some time.(just rub it to you navel by not taking it to the other side.

then make a pich again and check your pulse in navel again.

if it does not appear again then repeat.

Yoy can apply some oil besides your navel to soften skin.

Hey I know you posted a long time ago. But I have been trying to find those exact symptoms. I have been dealing with this for bout 2 years and idk what to do. I got a half of colonoscopy not a full one. I get the same deep radiating pain in lower abs (around belly button) and goes down forwards my rectums area. Sometimes I can kinda feel coming at times it will shock me out of nowhere. When moving around in a music concert I felt it. When I work out I feel it as well. Or when I sit for hours doing uber and Lyft. Please if you found some sort of solution. Please get in contact with me my number is(973) 979-3375 and email- juanc.quintana3@gmail.com

Hey I know you posted a long time ago. But I have been trying to find those exact symptoms. I have been dealing with this for bout 2 years and idk what to do. I got a half of colonoscopy not a full one. I get the same deep radiating pain in lower abs (around belly button) and goes down forwards my rectums area. Sometimes I can kinda feel coming at times it will shock me out of nowhere. When moving around in a music concert I felt it. When I work out I feel it as well. Or when I sit for hours doing uber and Lyft. Please if you found some sort of solution. Please get in contact with me my number is(973) 979-3375 and email- juanc.quintana3@gmail.com

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Pubic bone has ached since last 1/2 marathon 6 weeks ago.

Dull ache pubic region. I can train and just ran a fast marathon, but dull ache in region. It's pretty general.

The entire pubic regions just feels weak/tired.

All pain is slightly above pubic bone. Mostly centered.

I'm resting now from marathon? Should I just do planks core and avoid pounding concrete? Again just ran a marathon and it felt weak, but ok. Nothing acutely hurts general ache.

So I have this , too. 3 months ago I went for a run after a 4 hour drive. I felt soreness but ran through it. I'm 46 and figured strange aches come with the territory. I took two weeks off and it was still there. I tried running through it and started a 20 min ab routine 6 days a week for two weeks (I think this helped). After 3 months, I had discomfort during and after slow 10 miler.

It will not go away. I have done ZERO for the last 3 weeks and things still do not feel right. I have no real pain now but my R hip flexors and L adductor is tight. I popped melaxatin (muscle relaxer) for a few days straight to no avail. I've iced and heated. Voltaren and Zinc gels. No change.

I had a physio therapist check me for a labral tear but that ain't it.

No pain when I cough, no bulge, no bruising. Pain seems to be centered where the ligaments connect. It feels like a muscle strain - 3 inches below the navel and 2-3 inches to the right.

There is no real pain. IT JUST MAKES RUNNING NO FUN!

I have an MRI scheduled in 3 days.

OP, any updates? Has anyone beat this?

I have had similar to what is described here. My belief is that the Psoas is the pain point, but is probably really caused by other tight and weak muscles and Psoas gets over stressed. The tight Adductor and hip flexors is a key point in your description. Sitting for long periods consistently can shorten your abdominal and hamstring muscles. Use lumbar support for long sitting.

Here is what worked for me, though it took months to get back to normal.

Lunges - progress to front thigh parallel to the ground, back leg extended as far back as possible, body vertical.

Side Planks - lift one leg up at a time so you are working Adductor and Abductor on each side.

Range of motion exercises - leg swings sideways, front back, lunges (above)

Deep tissue massage / ART. Lay on back, have someone push deeply into your low side abdomen (psoas) and lift / lower your leg. Lay pain area of belly down on a baseball or softball (not full weight, just push in to stretch a bit).

Foam roller on Adductors, Glutes, hip flexor.

Stretch Adductors, Glutes, Hip flexors. Active stretches are best like laying on side, put straight leg out front and do foot circles. This will stretch and strengthen Glutes. Lay on back and put legs straight up in a V and open / close the V. Lay on back with legs straight and lift to 90deg one leg at a time (Hip flexors, Psoas).

Levers - Stand up straight, begin to bend over with one leg moving in line with the upper body. Stretches hamstring, strengthens balancing muscles.

Crossover Sit ups.

You will need to slowly build to some of the above exercises to avoid pain.

Good luck

I walked around the mall for hours and my feet didn't hurt, not heal pain or pain on the sides of my feet. Before I got these I got a pair of orthofeet which I also like and have had no problems with and they have seems to made my hip stop hurting. Too early to say if these will help my hip but second day wearing them and my feet felt great.

Hey. So I have also been having pain in my lower abdomen. But it’s around my private parts. I do not believe it’s a hernia. I have been training for my upcoming soccer season and a showcase for a while and just started feeling this mild pain in the middle of a training session yesterday. I have a big college showcase and a soccer season coming up. What should I do?

Tbahu26 wrote:

Hey. So I have also been having pain in my lower abdomen. But it’s around my private parts. I do not believe it’s a hernia. I have been training for my upcoming soccer season and a showcase for a while and just started feeling this mild pain in the middle of a training session yesterday. I have a big college showcase and a soccer season coming up. What should I do?

See a doctor. It could be a hernia. If it is, you can still run with it for a while - but it will probably get progressively worse and may eventually require surgery. Would not a good time be be doing weight lifting.

I think I have/had same issue.

Started in January, 2018. Deep, burning discomfort just below my waistband. For me, it was very, very slightly towards my right side. For most of 2018, I could feel it when I first started running, but it would generally go away after about 5 minutes. Sometimes towards the end of long runs when my form would start to degrade I could feel it simmering below the surface, but it never progressed beyond that. Fast forward to December, 2018. I was doing 10x800's and was really having a great workout. When each interval would start, I felt like I was exploding from my recovery pace to my interval pace. Anyway, next morning I woke up and knew something was wrong. Pain was much worse than it had ever been and wouldn't go away after getting up and moving around. For the next couple weeks I tried to run, but it affected me constantly. I shut it down on Jan 1st of this year. My initial plan was to take 3-4 weeks off to heal, then do another couple weeks of core exercises to build up strength before resuming running. At the end of January, I was still hurting so did nothing until the end of February. Day to day pain was lessening by then so I started a little running. I did 3-10 miles weekly through March. At some time in late March I started seeing a pelvic floor specialist at a local PT office. She quickly found that my left hip was rotated back and was causing my left leg to be effectively shorter than my right. I also had much less flexibility on my left side. We worked on some stretching and correction exercises for a few visits. She would also apply heat packs and do some sort of scraping around the affected area, theory being the irritation would cause increased blood flow to that area, speeding healing. Over the next 4-6 weeks we introduced some yoga and strength training (all symmetrical, no lunges or anything like that) . I increased my mileage slowly but kept all running easy. Starting in June, I was running 20+ miles per week (had been 35-45 before December injury) and started introducing one workout run every week or two. I was terrified the first time I did any sort of intervals as I really felt that's what caused the acute injury that sidelined me. I now ease up to interval pace instead of lunging forward into it. This past week I finally broke 30 miles. Hoping by end of August be in the 35-40 range with at least one hard run per week.

My advice would be to be prepared to take time off now, maybe 3-4 weeks. During that time, work on stretching, try some yoga if you're ok with that. I feel a month off during 2018 may have saved me 7+ months of recovery that I'm going through now.

Good luck.

The above appears to relate to Hip Flexor pain due to muscle imbalance on dominant side causing excess hip rotation.

Hip Flexor discomfort tends toward outside area of groin - inguinal hernia pain is several inches away. In advanced hernia conditions, you can feel or even see intestines protruding when tensing stomach muscles.

For a Hip Flexor issue, a PT can adjust your hip, but relief tends to only last days (or less) as the affected hip quickly drifts back out of position.

Hip Flexor issues do not require surgery. Cure is a regimen of stretching and strengthening (e.g Yoga per above poster).

Hi I was wondering if any has had this pain before? If so let me know what their end result is? I have had this since November so now over 7/8 months and I have been to doctors specialist, have done a several diets, had more fibers, had laxatives, Gone through colonoscopy and gastrophy and still no results.

Hi I was wondering if any has had this pain before? If so let me know what their end result is? I have had this since November so now over 7/8 months and I have been to doctors specialist, have done a several diets, had more fibers, had laxatives, Gone through colonoscopy and gastrophy and still no results. I am replying to this -

Hi! So I have been having pretty much exactly what the first poster described-pain in one particular spot, a couple inches directly below my belly button.

It does NOT hurt when I run, and it is not a large amount of pain; it's more of an increasing discomfort. It always hurts after I am done running, although recently it's been hurting for longer periods of time after I run.

It's been bugging me for a few months, although it only just recently started getting worse-i.e. bothering me all night after i run instead of just for an hour after.

Please contact me on

tyson571@hotmail.com

. Please and Thank you, I miss being able to sprint and run :)

Look up "athletica pubalgia" and see if that sounds like what you have (other people call it a sports hernia- some garbage term)

It is often from imbalances in muscles, is common in runners and people who play sports that require a lot of "cutting" from side to side- soccer, other such games.

I ended up with this after coming back too soon after a hard marathon. Sidelined me for 12 months. Many people end up with surgery, I eventually spent a month focusing heavily on gaining range of motion for a deep squat and doing a ton of stretching of my adductor compartment. It seemed to work, I am running again but have only pushed my mileage into the 60-70 mpw realm so not sure what a full recovery will look like. Running pain free is enough right now. Best of luck.

In a similar situation to you...

had really bad testicle pain about 7 weeks ago. I rested for like 2 weeks and it still hurt. Went to a quick care place and was diagnosed with a hernia. Today, went to see a doctor about a hernia surgery and was told I don't have a hernia and the doctor thought it might be some type of groin tear/sprain. Still have testicle pain, but it's gotten better over the last few weeks, but still painful.

So back to square one. No idea what this is. Urine came back clean and doctor didn't think it was a big deal.

Had a similar issue months after a vasectomy. So if you've had one, it could be pressure built up from your body not absorbing sperm.

I thought it was osteitis pubis and did a bunch of stretches and pt exercises. Most of them worked the groin and glutes, so give that a try.

Replied about this on another thread. Sounds like ostitus pubis

RuningManJumpSuit wrote:

Replied about this on another thread. Sounds like ostitus pubis

Exactly what it sounds like.