Sorry, but I can't answer you bro. I just stumbled across your thread from a search b/c I think I may have ambilical hernia. A big knot above my belly button.
Sounds like it.
See a doctor soon. Some people put up with the thing for years, but that can get dangerous - if a section of your intestines gets "stuck" in the hole and you can't gently push it back in while laying down, for instance, that definitely means emergency room, probably emergency surgery, all sorts of unpleasentness.
Whereas, getting it taken care of right away - for me, at least - was almost effortless. I went to my doctor, he referred me to a surgeon, we made an appointment for day surgery, and that was it... 10 days later, I had the repair work done. On the day of the surgery, I left for the hospital at 10am and was home again at 4pm. The surgery part of that was less than an hour. And my fairly lousy HMO insurance paid for the whole thing.
Had moderate discomfort for a few days, which was pretty much eliminated by 1 Vicodin every 4-6 hours. (Ask for Vicodin - don't let them get away with prescribing Tylanol with Codine or something lame like that.) By a couple of days after that, I was off the Vicodin completely.
I was lucky enough to be able to work from home for the week after the surgery, but I could have come back to the office within 3 or so days if I would have needed to.
Now it's been 10 days - and I'm back at my normal routine except for at the gym. I've started working with really light weights just to keep everything warmed up - but I'm gonna be a good boy and do what the surgeon says and not try to hit the weights too hard again for 4 to 6 weeks.
Be sure the people who are gonna work on you know everything you are putting in your body - I had just gone off cycle and started PCT when I had my surgery. I made a list of everything I was taking or had taken in the last week before the surgery, and made sure the anethesiologist and surgeon both saw it. I stopped taking all suppliments and everything for a few days before and a few days after just to keep things simple.
Make sure also that the surgeon knows that you are phsically active and put a lot of stress on your muscles - it may affect how he decides to fix the problem. In my case, although the hernia was small, he decided to fix it with a "mesh" rather than just a suture, to make sure the fix was strong enough to hold.
Oh yeah... and the scar is really tiny, and completely inside the "innie" of the belly button, so no great disfigurement. (Usually the scar is suppossed to look like a smiley face... but since mine was on the top of the belly button instead of the bottom, it looks more like a little frown. Of course, I guess that kinda depends on what direction the person who is looking at it is facing...)