Injured Tailbone!

Hi all!

This is not really off-topic. I will explain.

Most of us who have lost a great deal of weight have also experienced some tailbone pain (****yx).After we lose our "padding" that poor little thing can be QUITE exposed. Just look at my before picture-my tailbone didn't even know the world existed back then! 

But now the for the whine part.

I FELL down our entire flight of stairs Saturday night. I actually BUMPED down about 11-12 steps on my BUM!!!!!

I realized at that exact moment-that when I am laying on my back...bumping down our stairs-I cannot reach the banister. *Sigh*

I sprained my shoulders (must have tried to put my arms over my head to stop myself).

I have a suspected fractured tailbone. OH-hurt! I can tell,  folks NEVER forget that pain. Each time I tell someone who has been there-their faces fall VERY serious!

So-would you like to share some of your OWN personal ways you have dealt with this pain? What about physical therapy, stretching, icing, rubs? Anything outside of meds-as I have those-but the PAIN is still there (of course).

I got a special cushion with the ****yx cut out. But of course-it doesn't REALLY help quite yet-since there is still such extreme pain.

How did you heal up from your "hurt tail"?

Thanks and peace!!

T

I've been losing a bit of weight and my poor little tailbone has been achy. : ( 
-bk

Hi BK!

I recall that first feeling of "what is that pain??"
and realizing it was my butt bone!

Both owie and yay for you!!
Hugs,
T

I did it when I was 19 years old the same way you did. Hit every blasted step. No one checked to find out what the noise was so I laid there for a good fifteen minutes before I could get up. Hurt like the devil. Couldn't stand, sit, lay down, walking hurt too. It was awful. There is no describing that pain. I just dealt with it and took aspirin (I don't think tylenol or motrin were around then). I didn't even know that it was broken until I had my first child. I had to have a section because my tail bone was in the way. There is really nothing that they can do to fix a broken tail bone but at least if I had gone to a doctor when I fell I would have known that it was broken and could have avoided an extremely over due baby and many hours of useless labor. 

BTW: I was obese when I did it. Now it just hurts like hell to sit on my bed and lean back on the pillows. And they say I am a pain in the ass! I think it is because I have one. 

So sorry to hear of your fall. Yikes, that story made me hurt too!

 I fell earlier this year and injuried my tail bone too.  Ice packs do help but what really helped me was my massage therapist working on it - gently and she taught me how to gently massage the area to release pressure etc. 

And unfortunately it just takes time to heal...I still have problems if I sit down too hard on a chair...

 Best wishes for a speedy recovery - it's not fun.

Cheers, Tee

I'm glad you fall wasn't more serious.  I'm sorry your bum hurts.  I've noticed mine hurts more too because of the lost padding.  i sit on a pillow some days.

My sister-in-law fell last year on her tail bone.  Not down a flight of stairs, just 1 landing right on her butt.  It was a few months later when she was still having pain she went in.  It turns out she broke the very tip of her tail bone and needed surgery to fix it.  Just food for thought that you might need to have an xray to make sure you didn't break it.  So a pillow may help.  Or (if you're brave enough) one of those hemmroid pillows with the hole in the center, or something similar.

I know! I went down a natural water slide ...moss covered rock in Asheville, NC...I caught air and landed on my poor flat fanny! Hurt for 2 weeks! And who knew you could hit your buttbone on so many things! LOL! I am sorry for your pain! I feel you!

Hello T! So sorry to read about your fall - I fell down 12 steps at my home but it was when I was quite a bit heavier so my fat sort of cushioned me and I had alot of bruising but no breaks! (I guess everybody has some sort of story on this anyway, I hope you have seen a doctor and at least know if you are dealing with a fracture, bruising, anything torn or whatever so that then you can be given the proper advice!  I have had physical therapy and found it to be helpful.  It is hard at first and you may be sorer than before initially but it does help.  I guess it strengthens the muscles around the bones or something.  Also I have done pool therapy (warm water)and that is wonderful!! I have seen others who have had some sort of jet therapy on their backs also so perhaps that might help? My brother has been out of work for almost 2 years after herniating a disc/having surgery and now a possible other herniation.  He attends physical therapy and it is helping, also takes some sort of drug for nerve related pain which has been a lifesaver for him as it seems his is more like a sciatic type of pain along with bone pain.  ANyway, just wanted to say hello and hope things work out for you.  It is not fun and any type of pain is very tiring and very wearing both physically and mentally.  Please take care.  Mary (Molly P)

Ow ow ow ow ow, I have so much sympathy and empathy  

In my early twenties, at about the weight I am now, I went rollerskating with a bunch of friends, I used to be really good so I pushed off the side all confident ........... well you know how that ends - my feet went straight up, there was no saving me. I shattered my ****yx, no surprise, it took a LOT of recovery, I can't remember how long, but like a year to get over the worst of it i think.  Sorry I can't be more positive.  I spent 3 months of work with my leg tucked under as the cushions didn't work.  The worst was driving, because there is no other way to sit.  I remember the feeling of easing into the driving seat, very painful but that does gently numb, but it was the standing up and getting out of the car that I still quote as the most painful experience of my life!!!

So I don't have much advice to offer, but big hugs honey, I am soooooo thinking of you.
Gentle Hugs
Amy

Hey T!
Good to see you, bad under these cir****tances. I hope each day you get easier and heal!! 
How is England doing?
My DH and I are trying to look into moving back home. ( he is british)
He has been looking around for jobs and head hunters. If you hear of any jobs out there...give me a shout!! 
Sandy