Posted 7/28/2014 11:32 PM (GMT 0)
In the title, the pain is stated as being to the right of your belly button, but in the post, it's stated as being on the left. If it's to the right of the belly button, that's more indicative of Crohn's disease in the terminal ileum. Left-sided pain is more typical of UC, although there's never any hard and fast rules about these things.
Thing is, though, nobody can diagnose you over the internet. The only way you can be diagnosed with Crohn's is to have tests: blood/stool tests, followed by a colonoscopy (with biopsies) and probably a small bowel test as well, like a barium follow-through. Just describing your symptoms isn't enough. Yeah, I've had a dull, intermittent ache around my belly button, but I've also had every other type of abdominal pain going as well. Not everyone with Crohn's has the same type of pain: it varies a lot with its presentation (more than the other IBD, UC, does).
I think your symptoms merit checking out, for whatever it's worth. You can wait a few more weeks if you like: I'm also a fan of 'wait and see'. But if it is Crohn's, then hiding your head in the sand and not seeing a doctor won't make it go away. Instead, you're more likely to end up in hospital with an obstruction or perforation, needing emergency surgery. Eventually. Crohn's can progress fast or slow, but in most people, it's a slow, if inexorable, process.
And for the love of god, stop googling your symptoms. It's all right if you can do it without worrying, but most people can't: they see a rare cancer listed as a possible cause of their symptom(s) and assume they've got that, rather than the infinitely more common condition that's listed instead.