Pressing pain right above the navel may be caused by dietary habits, or it may be caused by gastric ulcer or acute appendicitis. 1. Dietary habits: Pressing pain right above the navel may be caused by eating spicy and stimulating food or catching cold and drinking alcohol for a long time. Patients need to be patient and rest, the pain may be relieved. 2. Gastric ulcer: mainly due to the patient’s usual improper diet, eating spicy and stimulating food and so on, resulting in gastric ulcers, which causes pressure pain just above the navel. 3. Acute appendicitis: When suffering from acute appendicitis, the pain around the umbilicus can appear first, and then metastatic right lower abdominal pain. When the patient has the symptom of pressure pain right above the navel, it is recommended that the patient should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time to avoid delaying the condition.