What the Hell is That?? Oh..its my.....Tailbone

Ok...so has anyone else had the problem of feeling like they are sitting on something only to find out it was your own tailbone? It is at times very uncomfortable to sit up and even at times during the night I'll wake up from sleep after laying on my tailbone..anyone else experienced this? Odd I know...

Hehe.  It's pretty common after losing a lot of weight.  Mine only really bothers me if I sit on a hard surface for a long time.  I had to get a cushion to sit on in the bath tub because I love long bubble baths and my tub is way too hard.

yes. it happens to me all the time! I go to the chiropractor and that helps but I can't sit on anything hard for any extended period of time.

 I am having this same issue!!

My twin daughters had that same problem and still 6 years later it is painful at times.
I have only lost a little , but I sit so much because of bad knees and hips that my tailbone is killing me , but so is walking!! sleeping is the worst and I even have a movable base bed and sleep  number mattress on top of it , and sleep between 2 large body pillows with just enough space in the middle for my spine
I hope you can get some relief !!!!!
 

It still amazes me that when I have a problem I come on here and sure enough someone posts about the same thing! I can no longer take a bath either the damn tub is too hard! I tried lying on my neck pillow but it popped! LOL. The craziest things we took for granted before surgery!

Mine is uncomfortable when I sit or recline.  I can't lay on my back, and recently it's bothering me on my side.  Definitely no fun!

You can try one of those tailbone pillows - they help me a little, but not too much.

Oh yesss.  I had to sit on a pillow before I gained back a little weight and now I always request booths in  restaurants.  I had relly never felt mine before except for when I fell on it a couple of years ago - I knew I had one because of anatomy class, lol  When I was in the hospital, I envied the women with the big bottoms because it hurt so badly to sit anywhere especially when ll my muscle tone was gone also - when I was literally skin and bones and a little extra it was sooo painful to sit.  I don't know how those Brazillians do it but I want to move around what I've got to where I want it.

I am the queen of tailbone problems!

Suggestion #1 Get a ****YX pillow (NOT a donut pillow, those were developed for men who got kicked in the nuts). The big issues that happened is you lost some of your buttock volume, and you sat on your tailbone... it's been so nicely protected by excess buttocks, that it hasn't had to get all self-protective and pull itself out of the way when you sit (that's what thin people's tailbones does, or those who are fat and never had much of a butt even then). So you get a smaller butt, you sit on your tailbone, it gets inflamed because of that, and since you can't take NSAIDS, the inflammation doesn't have a quick solution. The ****yx pillow gives you some space, and your tailbone muscle is going to start to revive itself, and over a few months to a year it will likely go away. I got a Blue ****yx Cushion by Wagan through Amazon (about $13 each, I have four of them, school, home, car, extra for long car journeys) 99% of those who have tailbone issues are taken care of by this

If the pain gets VERY bad (as in affecting your quality of life) then you might see a pain doctor, or an orthopedic pain specialist. They can set you up with either physical therapy (pretty useless for tailbone, but it might work for you). Or they can set you up for a series of one, two or three cortisone shots to your ****yx. MOST folks will have a great response to the steroid shots. For me, the first shot didn't help much, the second shot was dynamite, dropped my pain levels to tolerable levels for 11 months. MOST folks forget they have a tailbone for the rest of their life and that's the end of that.

It's VERY rare for tailbone problems to persist, but it does happen. In my case 4 tailbone shots later, and I was in excruciating pain. My pain specialist took GREAT pains at the beginning of our relationships to point out that there was no way he would EVER recommend me to have my tailbone removed, but ultimately he did anyway, and when the first surgeon he sent me to said "No WAY" he then had to do the shopping around until he could find a surgeon who would take on my case (It's rare, very very rare, and very very high complication rate and very low success rate). In my case a lifetime of having a big butt meant my muscle that retracted my tailbone to aide sitting had entirely atrophied. My tailbone was undergoing repeated trauma every time I sat down. The marrow of my tailbone was inflamed. With fully one in four having BAD complications, and one in five experienced INCREASED pain after removal, and only one in five having total pain reduction, it is just NOT the best plan but some have to go to those extremes.

Holy Cow I am so happy to read all of your replies, I thought perhaps I was alone in this! I am going to look into a pillow, I think that would help me tons! Thanks again for your input :)