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Original poster

What’s behind your belly button? On the inside.

168 replies

Snooks1971 · 17/02/2022 20:57

Just this - do not Google it!
Presumably the inside bits just die off ??
Putting my finger into my belly button makes me feel weird and I’m 50. 😳

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NotImpossible · 17/02/2022 20:58

It makes me feel weird too.
I want to Google and don't want to Google...

Gardeningtipsneeded · 17/02/2022 20:59

I don’t know but poking my finger in it send a shooting sensation down to my vagina which I don’t understand at all.

LovelyQuiche · 17/02/2022 20:59

It’s joined to the (closed) umbilical vein.
It feels weird because the nervous innervation is linked with the bladder nerves, or something like that anyway

Diablo2 · 17/02/2022 21:00

I know that if you unscrew it, your bottom falls off.

My Mum told me that, and she wouldn't lie to me, would she?

Hospedia · 17/02/2022 21:02

Fibrous tissue and redundant ligaments that connect to the bladder, pelvis, liver, etc which is why it feels weird when you stick your finger in it.

I have a scar inside mine, I needed laprascopic abdominal surgery and one of the incisions they made was inside my belly button.

OvertheRainbow2U · 17/02/2022 21:25

Gaerdeningtipsneeded

I thought it was just me!!

UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 17/02/2022 21:28

Narnia?

mumda · 17/02/2022 21:31

I hate belly buttons. They're disgusting. Outys are worse than innys. But I don't like any of them.

Is it normal to worry it would come undone?

Original poster
Snooks1971 · 17/02/2022 21:32

@Hospedia

Fibrous tissue and redundant ligaments that connect to the bladder, pelvis, liver, etc which is why it feels weird when you stick your finger in it.

I have a scar inside mine, I needed laprascopic abdominal surgery and one of the incisions they made was inside my belly button.

But if they are redundant why does it feel so weird? Are they still connected?
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User76745333 · 17/02/2022 21:32

I don’t know but poking my finger in it send a shooting sensation down to my vagina which I don’t understand at all.

Me too

Original poster
Snooks1971 · 17/02/2022 21:33

@UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea

Narnia?
Yes !
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SheldonesqueTheBstard · 17/02/2022 21:35

Fat.

JenniferWooley · 17/02/2022 21:36

Slightly worried that I feel nothing when I poke my finger into my belly button

Off to Google

ExactlyThat · 17/02/2022 21:37

It’s a stalk. I know this from watching Botched.

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 17/02/2022 21:38

@Hospedia

Fibrous tissue and redundant ligaments that connect to the bladder, pelvis, liver, etc which is why it feels weird when you stick your finger in it.

I have a scar inside mine, I needed laprascopic abdominal surgery and one of the incisions they made was inside my belly button.

Why dont the ligaments get used in reconstruction elsewhere in the body?
Lipsandlashes · 17/02/2022 21:39

@Gardeningtipsneeded

I don’t know but poking my finger in it send a shooting sensation down to my vagina which I don’t understand at all.
Oh God! I thought that was just me. What is that about??
Bran21 · 17/02/2022 21:41

I'm scared to google it but I'll prob start thinking about it when I wake at 2.a.m and think about it for an hour then google.

Bitofachinwag · 17/02/2022 21:42

What determines whether you get an inny or an outy? Is it just where the cord is clamped and how it falls off?

WonderfulYou · 17/02/2022 21:42

Slightly worried that I feel nothing when I poke my finger into my belly button

Me too!!

How are people feeling things and i’m not!

Original poster
Snooks1971 · 17/02/2022 21:43

@ExactlyThat

It’s a stalk. I know this from watching Botched.
A stalk?? You’ve just made this worse……
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Lancelottie · 17/02/2022 21:44

Mine contains a coiled-up itchy bit of mesh from a failed hernia repair.

tatyr · 17/02/2022 21:45

Don't be poking around in there too much, my husband had a urachal cyst and had surgery to clean all the pus out. He didn't have much of a belly button left after that

Margotshypotheticaldog · 17/02/2022 21:45

frantically pokes belly button🤗

Lipsandlashes · 17/02/2022 21:46

I know when I was pregnant and it started to pop out a bit, that I kept pulling the dog’s hair out of it 🤢

ProfessorInkling · 17/02/2022 21:47

Mine is a cave.