Walking With a Limp I Thought I Was Gonna Fall Again

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Comment from: Gabby ML, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: August 05

I am 41 years onetime and I had my tailbone confused later on a car accident with an 18 wheeler. It's been 3 years and my pain is bad. I am still in treatment with my pain management medico but at this point I am really frustrated because I tin can't become rid of the pain. I accept had 2 back surgeries and a spinal string stimulator due to the blow. I thought the pain was going to get ameliorate after all I had gone through but no, I withal have pain.

Annotate from: Bre, 19-24 Female person (Patient) Published: July 07

I fractured my tailbone around 10 years old, and once again effectually fifteen. I still have pain every day, during extended sitting, exercise, lifting, and standing for long periods. It feels "nervy" and the hurting can extend from my legs, buttocks and lower/mid dorsum. I am 23 now and run across no end of pain in sight. Some days are worse than others as some activities trigger the pain more. No corporeality of massage, stretching, ice or heat helps me.

Comment from: Andra, 25-34 Female person (Patient) Published: June 07

I cruel on my coccyx from a very small distance (30 cm) and information technology was horrible. I was in bed in terrible tailbone pain for iii days, and so it took 3 weeks for the pain to finally go away. After iv weeks I went on an viii hour hike and now I'm in pain again. I noticed that even running does me harm. Will this hurting always go away, and volition I get back to normal!

Comment from: Bearssmalls, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: May 14

When I was 12 years quondam I was a cheerleader and during a lift gone wrong, I was dropped on concrete and landed on my tailbone. I'm at present 37 and about 10 years ago started having sharp pains if I carry or move anything over 5 lb., if I represent likewise long or sit for too long. I haven't injured information technology once again, so I don't know why, after all those years, it started to bother me and why information technology still causes so much pain.

Comment from: Peaches, 35-44 Female person (Patient) Published: May 05

I slipped on ice in January 2021 and landed on my buttock. The pain shot down my legs, up my dorsum and I have besides had numbness on the outer right thigh from the articulatio genus nigh to the hip. It's at present the 1st of May. I knew I'd done something bad, but an Ten-ray yesterday revealed I'd broken my tailbone. The pain is excruciating just at least now I know what happened and tin hopefully begin to start healing. Since the fall I'd been plodding on the best I could, simply the hurting was horrendous.

Comment from: Ankur j, xix-24 Male (Patient) Published: August 18

I am 24 years onetime, and ii years ago I slipped on the stairs and got my tailbone broken. At that time I consulted a medico and had a handling. He fixed information technology and told me to rest only because of my busy schedule and work I wasn't able to follow his educational activity. I just had an x-ray of my tailbone, and I found that it isn't fixed still, so I want to fix that because sometimes when I sit longer information technology starts paining.

Comment from: Bigsumit, 25-34 Male person (Patient) Published: August eighteen

I did crunches on a hard surface in 2018. After i or ii days I was driving my bike, I leaned dorsum, and all of sudden there was a abrupt pain in my tailbone. I once consulted a medico, and he advised me to use ice pack or heat pack. Information technology never worked, but somewhen the pain reduced. Information technology is 2020, and I feel pain only when I apply pressure on the end of my tailbone, and if I stretch property 1 glute and pull it to a side it hurts at that time. But this is annoying, I take to recall every time almost sitting positions.

Comment from: Kathryn, 55-64 (Caregiver) Published: June 26

I fell on my back severely and broke my coccyx for the second time last February. I accept been in a lot of pain since, now over a twelvemonth. My pain extends across my bottom and downwards both my legs. Information technology really hurts, I wonder if this is usual.

Comment from: Stephanie , 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: February 05

I fell 6 months agone holding my 2 year old son. I saved him, the mode I fell bankrupt my tailbone and twisted it to the side. So information technology is poking my nerves. I couldn't move for 2 months. Agony any motion at all. I establish a practiced chiropractor that too had a hurting management doctor. They tried to flip my tailbone back, unsuccessful. All I exercise now is a lot of physical therapy, walking and stretching and shots. The only thing that gives me comfort is those shots. Also a retentiveness foam mattress topper. Helps me slumber finally. I walk with a bad limp because information technology hurts and then much.

Annotate from: MomofFour, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: Dec 23

I had fallen 20 years ago and dislocated my tailbone. Because I waited besides long it could not be maneuvered back into identify. The 1st option they gave me was to remove it. The doctor besides stated if I wanted more children I needed to accept them earlier getting it removed. Never got information technology removed, instead I went through 2 steroid epidurals to cake the pain. I still get some discomfort if I sit down too long, and pain getting upwards just its tolerable and temporary.

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Annotate from: Linda, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: Oct 28

I cruel off a stool onto my buttock onto the forest floor. The tailbone pain is atrocious when I sit downward or stand up up, and while turning in bed.

Annotate from: Carol, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: September 19

It is two and a half years, and my tailbone hurting is worse than always! I am having to have a drug pump implanted.

Annotate from: Loretta, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: September 06

I took a very bad fall downwards my pelting slick steps a yr and a half ago. I waited two days to go to the doctor just and then I had to, the pain was unbearable and my whole left buttock cheek was completely blackness. 10-rays showed that I had broken my tailbone. A whole year and a half later, and the pain somedays is just awful. Definitely the worst pain always!

Comment from: Mari, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: June thirteen

I savage on my tailbone back in November 2018 while water ice skating. I didn't have any bruising or swelling and it only felt like I had pulled my gluteus maximus (buttock muscle) on my left side. The pain was abrasive, but not excruciating, for about a month and then it slowly went away. In January I started to feel excruciating hurting in my tailbone. I went to the orthopedist and they said I had a crack in it. I felt no pain in May and rode a bus in June and that same pain is coming back. Ugh.

Comment from: Noteyellow, 25-34 Male (Patient) Published: May 08

I sustained a tailbone injury in 2007 from a caput-on collision. The 10-rays showed my tailbone was fractured, I did take other fractures though the tailbone injury fabricated everything below my waist numb. The hurting was excruciating. I could non sit up on my own for near 2 months, I had a concrete therapist who would assist me in sitting up correct. Information technology was the worst pain I ever had, I did have to take heavy painkillers. It took three months to sit up on my ain and virtually a yr to sit down without discomfort.

Comment from: Chelsea, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: April 18

I bankrupt my tailbone on the 5th of Jan this year. I've been to the hospital and they said it's healed now and I'll go dorsum to work doing a couple of hours a day walking. I don't know how comes it even so hurts.

Annotate from: Tara, 45-54 (Caregiver) Published: December 28

I had a bad autumn down icy stairs 5 days ago, and landed on my tailbone. I went to the emergency room and x-rays showed that I had broken my tailbone in one place, and dislocated it in another. Information technology's important to know that a dislocation can actually perforate your rectum and it is life threatening. Now I accept to see a fracture specialist who will decide if it tin exist relocated or to be removed. Don't mess around folks, go become an x-ray! Pain is terrible, only I'm managing.

Comment from: sevenspies, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: December 18

I was nearly 13 or xiv when I went down some physical stairs, slipped on the water ice and fell, and landed on my barrel on the pavement. I have fallen on my barrel diverse times over the years as well. I am now 46 and if I sit a certain style or go up from sitting, it is very painful in the tailbone area. I was told it would heal on its own, but I am still suffering and not sure what my next footstep is. I always thought that mayhap I just didn't have enough cushioning down there.

Comment from: Songbird7, 65-74 Female person (Patient) Published: March 09

I have fallen on my tailbone at present 3 to 4 times. Beginning when I slipped going downward the stairs in the nighttime and hit the concluding step and landed right on my tailbone before I slipped to the flooring and hit it again. That was vii years ago. Peachy pain, I had it checked and was told that it was a slight fracture but y'all can't practise anything about information technology. About 5 years after, while water ice skating with my 2 grandchildren, my feet slipped out from under me and I vicious on the hard ice twice correct on the aforementioned injured tailbone. They had to help me off the ice as I couldn't walk unassisted. Same terrible pain. Whatsoever sitting has crusade for great pain, especially auto trips. I try to put the automobile seat dorsum, sit on my Cox cushion or a heated i, which helps. But whatsoever getting up from sitting for more 30 minutes gives me smashing pain and it'south even hard to walk after that. Recently, 1 calendar week ago, my doctor did a sacroiliac (SI) injection to help pain in the SI joints. The Band-Aid was correct adjacent to my tailbone where he injected the needle and I take been in much more severe pain since and so. I recall he bruised it with the needle. He had given me the same shot a month ago and I recollect the pain in that surface area then, but it'southward much worse this time. I find that the heat helps it the most, but it's been a week and I have to lie on my side all the time. I can't sit and if I practice, then I tin can hardly walk without angle over. I can't take NSAIDs due to colitis, and so that'southward not good. Even the pain pill isn't taking away the pain at present. I have no life, not certain when this pain of almost xv years is going to end.

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Comment from: ConfusedandFedup, 35-44 Female person (Patient) Published: November 18

I didn't take a autumn, no injury or trauma to my tailbone at all. Final year on Thanksgiving, my tailbone started hurting for no reason and nearly i year later, it is still hurting and I however don't accept a diagnosis. Originally they thought it was referred hurting from a loose screw from my spinal fusion, but my spine surgeon wouldn't even consider that possibility even though another general surgeon, radiologist and my primary care physician says information technology articulate on the x-ray and CT scan. Anyway, last week I had a ganglion of impar block in my tailbone to see if that is the problem, and it would appear the pain isn't originating from the tailbone as the injection did nil for the pain. I had three days of increased pain and so back to my normal daily hurting I have had for a yr. Next week nosotros will do a hardware block so see if it is a loose spiral causing the referred pain in my tailbone.

Annotate from: Doctor, 65-74 Male (Patient) Published: November xviii

I slipped on a rain slick stair 30 years agone. The provider I saw, laughed and wrote a prescription for a year'southward supply of Motrin, and said that no one was going to be bothered past this fracture but me. He was correct. I have been bothered by tailbone pain for 30 years, in a constantly increasing fashion. At age 69, I can barely tolerate sitting, just getting up is worse, and please don't make me sit down once again one time I'm up. At present I tin can't take NSAIDs so it is much more than apparent.

Comment from: Jean, 65-74 Female person (Patient) Published: September 29

I take fallen twice and hurt my tailbone. Once 15 years agone and again 7 years ago. It has never healed but pain used to become abroad later on some time, just now never. I was put on steroid pills for 5 days recently simply gained ten pounds that week just hurting went away for a calendar month. Best month of my life. I cannot sit anywhere, cannot take trips, so I just stand and walk around nearly of the fourth dimension. If I twist my body and turn over when I slumber, the pain is horrible. I guess I will try the shot now but they said it is hard to get information technology in the right place. Worst injury I accept always had.

Comment from: Di, 55-64 Female person (Patient) Published: October 07

I fell last weekend on my behind, I don't know what I've washed to my tailbone or wrist; both of them are super painful. Wonder if I need to come across a medico to set it right. Information technology is at the very top of what I would say is the crack of my buttock.

Comment from: Mse, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: May 12

I fell on March 13, 2019 I'grand notwithstanding in horrible tailbone hurting. I don't know how to fix this trouble.

Comment from: Levi, 19-24 Male (Patient) Published: March 17

I'thousand 20 years and fell off of a ten foot ladder. For 9 months I have had endless sharp and hurtful tailbone pain, without seeing a doctor or anything because my family call back I'yard a hypochondriac and they don't believe anything I say anymore. I barely get much sleep because certain positions hurt and I tin can't sleep on my breadbasket or back. The simply affair that works is sleeping on my side. The merely other thing that helps is a donut pillow. Only I have had no medical treatment because I take no coin. But it'due south severe abiding pain.

Annotate from: Jayjay9, 75 or over Female (Patient) Published: February 11

My Corgi tripped me in the kitchen and I fell backward on my tail bone. Initially I felt minor hurting, totally forgot about it until almost iii days later when I experienced sharp pain in my tail when getting up from a hard kitchen chair. The same pain returned when I got out of bed the post-obit morning so I began Advil during the day plus heating pad at night. Afterwards one week pain is gone in the morning only returns during the solar day. Wonder how long I should treat on my own.

Comment from: Ak, 19-24 Female (Patient) Published: July 23

I broke my tailbone four months ago from a autumn and nevertheless not recovered.

Annotate from: Denise 1992, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: June 26

I slipped and landed on my buttocks about xv days ago. My coccyx area is very tender still and hurts a lot when coughing or sneezing. Sleeping has been very difficult. But wondering how long it's going to accept to get better. At least I practice not feel any tailbone pain when lying on my bed and changing sides.

Annotate from: Deborah , 55-64 (Patient) Published: May 21

I fell about a week ago at work and all my weight came downward on my right buttock. Information technology hurt for a couple of days badly but then I seemed fine. So while resting on my days off legs up, I went to bed and woke upwardly in severe right side lower back pain where I can hardly walk. I wonder if the tailbone pain could be from the fall.

Comment from: Hayley , 19-24 Female (Patient) Published: March 22

I'm in so much pain, I think I hurt my tail bone. I was walking, I slipped and fell really hard on my behind. It hurts right downwards in the middle. Every time I touch on it, it feels tingly, so much pain!

Comment from: Clueless, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: Dec 05

I fell and injured my tailbone probably when I was 16 or 17 years old. Correct now I'm 27 years old. I never went in to become information technology checked out since it could be expensive for ten-ray and thought information technology would heal and get away. But it's been well-nigh 10 years and I'm however having problem sitting for a long time and it'south painful with anything that has to practise with me sitting.

Comment from: Francine, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: July 20

I take never recovered from tailbone pain. I only had an epidural total of cortisone in an effort to heal inflamed white claret cells; it'due south a party in my body as a issue of spinal cord sports injury 15 years ago, the heatwave summertime to be precise. A patient with less trauma would show improvement in pain levels whereas I feel too much party like a 911 call in my pelvis and legs. Very scary life indeed.

Annotate from: Tammy alicia, 45-54 Female person (Patient) Published: June 26

I've had back pain and nerve damage for a very long time now and I also accept spinal scoliosis, ii jutting discs and disc disease. In the past 5 months I haven't been able to sleep lying down considering my tail bone hurts and so badly. Information technology'southward hard to get upwards from my position even if I sleep on my side or dorsum so I'm always sleeping sitting upwardly leaning frontward. When awake I've noticed that even if I lean for something I feel a pulling pain that hurts, too every bit bending downwards. I don't know why this is happening to me, because I oasis't fallen down or anything.

Comment from: bprina, Female (Patient) Published: May 25

I'm glad I found this forum because my dr. said I had sprained my tailbone as the x-ray revealed no fracture. He said I would get meliorate in iii weeks. Like virtually of you, it hurt to walk and I had to apply my artillery to press on my thighs to get up. My buttock cheeks hurt every day. All the same, I am getting a chip improve. Afterward calendar week one, I saw a chiropractor and have been seeing him 2 or iii times a week. He has suggested a CT scan for a better perspective. I am 25 percent amend subsequently 3 weeks, but the nights are hardest. The chiropractor uses a massage machine on my buttock cheeks and that helps a piffling. I'm taking supplements and sitting on sheep's skin. Fleece works well also. I would say, get an 10-ray and come across a reputable chiropractor to foreclose scar tissue formation. We all take to just hang in there and be really careful from now on.

Comment from: chole, 19-24 Female (Patient) Published: March 17

I was at my friend's house and we were playing flashlight tag and I had my socks on (bad choice). And then I slipped and hit my caput but I also hurt my tailbone. About 2 or 3 months afterward it notwithstanding hurts whenever I sit, sometimes or stretch.

Annotate from: Jennifer, 55-64 Female person (Patient) Published: March 16

I fell hard going downward the stairs and broke my tailbone. For years I had hurting and I kept hearing I should sit down on a doughnut cushion. Finally I could not stand the hurting anymore and I bought one. I took it with me everywhere I went and I did not sit downward unless I saturday on the doughnut absorber. I also got the cortisone injection at the same time. I am sure if I had not used the cushion I would not accept improved. It was several months subsequently I noticed the pain got amend. It is gone now but if I sit in a certain position I tin can feel the pressure and information technology starts to ache.

Comment from: Dilon, 35-44 Female person (Patient) Published: January 12

I recently had a fall from slipping on some ice. I fell difficult back on the steps out my back door one time my feet went out from under me. I felt ok at kickoff then as morning came I couldn't sit or stand up up without intense pain. I had tried everything. Rut and soaking in Epsom salt water with my bathroom. The heat helps it to relax some but is still painful.

Comment from: 1chance1, 45-54 Male (Patient) Published: Nov 17

I was stuck in the back of a cargo van sitting a stainless seat for xi days traveling the country. This was back in March. I am still having pain in my tailbone. Information technology is always there. Sometimes better some times worse. Simply walking for almost 20 minutes makes it hurt worse.

Comment from: jonintrix, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: October 27

I fell at work, and went to their doctor. In my dorsum I had pulled a musculus, anyway it was swollen, this was on September 16, 2015. Later on swelling went down my concrete therapist had me doing stretches. And then I was released considering I could do it. A day or so later, I couldn't sit on my bed, or in a chair, or bulldoze without twisting on a hip. My work made a big deal out of me falling backwards on the floor, and I was put on lite duty, sitting pulling files out of boxes, thick files. And people only didn't intendance, if I hurt. I was told over and over again, you lot tin't exercise nothing about information technology. Information technology hurts and so bad, upward to this day October, 24, 2015, just as bad as when I discovered the injury, does information technology always become abroad, I wonder. Information technology has made my life an desperation. I'yard beginning to think at that place is no recovery.

Annotate from: unhappywithtailbone, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: June xi

I noticed my tailbone pain after my first bike ride of the season last summer [2014]. I accept been a bicycle rider for several years, this is the first fourth dimension I had tailbone pain. I did crack my tailbone when I was about 14, I'one thousand now 48. I take been to the doctor, had an x-ray, been to physic, been to massage; so far no relief and everyone has given me a dissimilar reason for the pain. It is very frustrating!

Comment from: lisa, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: April 27

I fell 18 months agone whilst collecting crabs with the kids on holiday in Ireland. My feet slipped from underneath me and savage onto a rock. I had never felt such pain in my life. I felt sick and faint. I experience it is something you can simply empathise if y'all accept felt it yourself. At the hospital in Ireland I was examined and as the consultant pressed downward about the bottom of my spine towards my coccyx I threw upwards with the intense pain. I was told my cocxys was broken and prescribed pain relief. I was unable to sit or curve to dress myself for the residual of the vacation and going to the toilet was horrendous. On returning to the UK I had an x-ray and was told my coccyx was fractured and chipped. This has since caused my pelvis to require realigning numerous times and I even so have physio. I take tramadol almost days to ease the pain. Sometimes I go so annoyed, I am 31 and yet I can't practice whatever I want with the kids and when I do, similar going for a bicycle ride for case, the hurting afterward is unreal. Breaking my coccyx has totally changed every area of my life. I read so many things online of how it should take peradventure effectually 6 months to recover yet I only wish I could see the solar day.

Comment from: TXKathy, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: Apr 12

I slipped on a sidewalk during a heavy rain and landed right on my bum. I'1000 honestly a pretty clumsy person and have had like falls on at to the lowest degree 2 other occasions (once rollerblading and once downwardly the stairs). I barbarous in tardily January. It is at present early April. I haven't been to a doctor. I had no visible bruising, even immediately later on the fall (but then I don't trample much). It is uncomfortable to sit, but it is disturbing to go from sitting to standing, slightly less so to go from standing to sitting, and seems to be getting worse. The other two falls I had felt about the aforementioned--hurt to get up out of a chair--but got better in a few weeks at most. I don't accept health insurance, merely I'grand starting to recollect I'g going to have to suck it up and pay to see an orthopedist. These comments about life-long pain and tailbone injury changing someone'southward life take me really concerned.

Annotate from: Pandher, 19-24 (Patient) Published: March 29

I am an overweight male (130 kg), was walking to college on a chilly morn and slipped on the ice. I barbarous not more than a foot (lost rest and landed on my human knee and then fell backward). I got up and as if nothing had happened walked for another mile. While reaching the college I felt as if in that location was something brushing betwixt my buttocks. I still kept on going. I attended my class and when started to go up. I had an excruciating hurting between the cheeks and I couldn't go up. My body would not back up me. I had walked up from nasty motorcycle accidents simply this pain was hard to behave. I don't know how I reached my home that twenty-four hour period. I went to a medical eye and they said I had fractured my tail bone and nix could be done. I chosen upwardly my orthopedic surgeon in India and was advised rest and not to sit to reduce the recovery time (sitting is an integral part of a person's day to 24-hour interval routine). Only what was the best part was that the medicine he prescribed was astonishing. I was advised to utilise DOLONEX DT piroxicam tablets twenty mg. I was on this medicine was about xx days. Later on this 20 mean solar day catamenia I stopped it for a while to assess the pain and discomfort. The pain is endurable now and I am off the medicine. What the medicine does is tap the pain and yous wouldn't know the pain existed and somehow non knowing the pain reduced my recovery time. I did ask for some more than from the chemist store or the drug marts hither in Canada and they refused because I did not take a prescription from a Canadian physician. What I would similar to propose the people suffering from this is to attempt out the medicine. I exercise not know of the side effects or whatsoever allergies to this medicine (but bluntly speaking I was not able to conduct the hurting), but it worked wonders.

Comment from: Fran127, 55-64 Female person (Patient) Published: September 06

I savage eleven days ago. I must acknowledge I did not residue and kept upwardly with my normal activities which involved moving and lifting boxes, plus biking and lawn tennis. I thought the pain would exacerbate with no special care. The opposite is true. My coccyx really hurts more.

Comment from: Rasha, nineteen-24 Male (Patient) Published: Dec 29

I felt discomfort on my tailbone three months ago. I don't remember any severe injury that could crusade it. I avoided sitting for iii months. It is meliorate now but I still cannot sit like normal people. The Ten-ray shows a piffling bend.

Comment from: Glenda, 65-74 Female (Patient) Published: June 27

April 2004 I savage and croaky my pelvis in several places. I brushed myself off and walked away after doctors told me at that place was cipher wrong. They said it was merely a big bruise and knot on my rump. I had X-rays made. A few weeks later on equally the pain was beyond belief, this is when I found out my pelvis was croaky. I am nonetheless being treated for information technology at a Hurting Clinic. Terminal calendar month I fractured my tailbone. I felt something move when I fell. I have another big bruise and knot except on reverse side of rump. I can hardly stand annihilation touching me. I attempt using water ice packs only the pain is and so bad. I sleep with two memory foam toppers on my bed. I sit on memory foam pillows. They are amend than whatsoever cushion that I have institute.

Annotate from: LizRN, 55-64 Male (Patient) Published: Jan 22

I was heading out to work and the stairs were icy. I ended upwardly flying off the top step onto the brick walkway in a sitting position. Ouch! I landed right on my tailbone! I couldn't go upwardly for a few minutes, so I laid there crying similar an idiot. I finally, got up and hobbled to my car. At work, I shunned all offers to go to the ER and I went domicile and suffered for four days. I've been through childbirth, kidney stones and shingles, and this was the WORST pain ever!

Comment from: wagner1969, 65-74 Female (Patient) Published: January 22

I had a lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injection three days ago. The doctor chosen and now tells me the pain however lingering in my left buttock and downwards my leg is due to coccyx fractures. I am at my wits end. What the heck practise I exercise about this pain? I am about to but surrender! My married man is ill of hearing about it and my daughter who is a doc tells me to more than or less terminate whining! I need a fleck of back up!

Comment from: nineteen years afterwards, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: May 20

My tail bone was fractured in 1994. I soon work 10-hour shifts, sitting all day, and the chronic bad pain hardly subsides. I have a prescription anti-inflammatory and Tramadol. It's not the remedy I want to settle for.

Comment from: JennaSampson3042, xiii-18 Female (Patient) Published: Apr 23

Somehow a few days ago my tailbone started hurting and I didn't call up falling and hurting information technology. I jumped my horses and I think information technology is going to go actually worst. Information technology was hurting bad at school because every time I tried getting up from a chair, it started hurting so bad! I injured my tailbone a year (or more) ago and this is the second fourth dimension I injured it.

Annotate from: proverbs3130gal, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: Apr 19

A few days agone I fell down in my forepart g, while stepping outside my front door (somehow lost my rest). I savage flat on my back, with my knees upwards, and my tailbone hit apartment on a large flagstone. Since then I have been in pain and experienced some throbbing after sitting down for extended periods of time. My brother is an EMT and he advised me to water ice it the kickoff few days, and then he advised me to apply heat to speed healing. The icing helped to numb the pain. It felt so good subsequently icing that I was agape to add the estrus, thinking the opposite would occur. I was wrong! Information technology felt and then good to apply some oestrus!

Annotate from: Roses12, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: June 29

Hi I fell on my tailbone almost thirty years agone, when I fell, information technology was on cement that was near water, the pain was then bad, that I idea I would not be able to become up. I went to the doctors months later, equally I had a puffiness on my tailbone, he told me it was fluid, and non to worry about it, if information technology acquired problems come back, the thing is it has affected me years later: I can't sit for as well long, have nerve damage, which has affected my lower trunk organs, sciatica and too my rima oris, I have serve arthritis in my spine, peculiarly in my neck, and shoulders. I have had physio, that made me worse, I don't know if I tin accept surgery to rectify the problem.

Comment from: horseygal, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: June 22

I was bucked off my horse 10 days ago and landed on my head and elbow. I call up my tailbone hit the ground pretty hard though (onlookers said I landed on my head so flopped over). After an MRI, elbow x-ray and lots of Ibuprofen, I'1000 fine except for my tailbone! It hurts to sit, stand, sleep and coughing or sneeze. I haven't been in the saddle since and I'm starting to dread it. The pain is not excruciating like some of you have described, merely it definitely hurts. Good luck to all of you!

Comment from: beverley, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: June 08

I fell in 1982 and was off work for six months when I bankrupt my tail bone. Information technology was the worse pain I've always suffered -- even kid nascence does non compare. I could barely walk or lay flat without bending my legs. I was 18 years former and I've suffered for 29 years.

Comment from: Kicked in the butt, 35-44 Female person (Patient) Published: May 31

I am nearly to scream every fourth dimension I sit, get upwards or lay down. A week ago I brutal backwards. I tried to end myself past grabbing onto my fiance but instead pulled him downwards with me. And so with him on top of me I landed straight on my tail os then flew back and hit my head on the baseboard molding on the wall. Later ambulance ride, a CT browse and X-rays I ended up with vii stitches in my head and more pain in my butt than my children give me. It'due south been a week and has only gotten worse. Ugh did I mention my wedding is in 7 days? I hope this misery goes away by then.

Comment from: Kitten903, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: May 09

I slipped on concrete stairs covered in ice this past February and hit 4 subsequent stairs resulting in a massive football sized bruise on my bum and hip. Here it is three months later and I cannot sit through a movie with my boys nor can I comfortably slumber. I have searched the spider web for any type of relief and and so far I have come to the understanding that I have a long painful road and must do my best to not continually hurt information technology.

Comment from: michigander, 45-54 Female person (Patient) Published: Apr xix

I've fallen twice in my life with the issue of a cracked tailbone. The commencement time was when I was in my early twenties. The snow sled went ane way and I the other - and I landed solidly on a small-scale tree stump. The 2d was a week agone (I'm in my early fifties now) when I slipped on the carpet downward the stairs. Both times, the hurting was so bad it took my breath away and made me nauseous and faint. I walked and walked while I mentally assessed my injuries. Walking tin be painful. Tightening my glutes is painful. Sitting downwardly and standing up is painful. Riding on a bumpy road is painful. Unfortunately, it just takes a long time to heal... several months as I call back. Keep moving. Try anti-inflammatory medications. Exist nice to your injured area and try to be more careful next fourth dimension. Adept luck with the healing!

Annotate from: Female person Published: April 05

I took a hard fall at roller derby last night, straight to the tailbone, had me breaking a sweat and rolling around in pain. Sleeping, standing, cough, just most any and everything is discomforting. This is past far the worst injury I've e'er had.

Comment from: NURSES, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: March 24

I barbarous down the stairs hitting my tailbone. Well, it turns out the just thing yous can do per the orthopedist is to ice the area, use a donut cushion and take 800 mg of ibuprofen. Even with all of these things, the pain can last three to half-dozen months or longer. Good luck to anyone with this hurting.

Annotate from: 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: March 22

I savage on ice several years agone and bankrupt my tailbone - confirmed by x-rays. The initial pain was excruciating. Information technology injure to raise my arms to launder my hair; it injure to bend over, climb stairs, slumber, sit, etc. The pain subsided over time, just it took months to heal. Since the injury, sit down-ups or other floor exercises are very painful. Sitting for extended periods is also very uncomfortable.

Comment from: 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: February 25

I was reading everyone comments on tailbones and I also am suffering from a broken tailbone. I broke mine the beginning time when I was 15 and at present once again at 43 and I plant what helps me is at dark sleeping on my belly and a doughnut to sit down on in the day time. On a practiced days I take 800 ibuprofen iii times a day. I practise want to say I'd rather exist a pain in the barrel than take this hurting in the butt.

Comment from: Jenn, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: February 22

I fell on my bum while blading and hit my tailbone. The X-ray didn't evidence any fracture but the hurting is killing me! Sitting downwards, standing up, lying downwardly is painful!!!!! I thought, after one week, the pain yet persists and could it be more serious than it is! Seeing all the postings hither gave me some mental expectation of how long the healing might be and it'due south a relief that it's normal. But I sure promise the pain goes abroad fast!

Comment from: Allie, Published: February 22

A week and a solar day ago, I cruel on my tailbone. I was dancing on my dining room floor with my friends and I did a jump and fell straight down on my tailbone. It was hard to go up but later on about ii minutes, my friends pulled me up. They helped me into the kitchen and I was in a tremendous corporeality of pain. I was continuing and of a sudden I felt like I would faint. I couldn't really hear and everything started to go black so I saturday down and and so I was okay. I was still in excruciating pain and my leg and my tailbone both hurt. Since then, my leg stopped hurting but my tailbone hurts when I go to stand up upwardly or sit downwardly. Especially when I run, it hurts. When I bend over or move my leg to effort to put on shoes information technology hurts. Today, I was dancing but not a lot, and now it hurts even more.

Comment from: Dawn, Pennsylvania, 25-34 Male (Caregiver) Published: Feb xviii

My son simply fractured his tailbone and is suffering horribly. Our doctor recommended pain meds and muscle relaxants which aid very picayune. I have been request some coworkers and friends who have had this and all say the aforementioned thing---the hurting gets meliorate but NEVER goes away completely. Some as long as 30 years. I work in a hospital and some of these were nurses. God help you all...my heart goes out to all of you lot, especially Anne from D.C.

Comment from: firearcher78, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: February 14

I vicious ii days ago when my shoes became packed with snowfall and I stepped on the vinyl flooring in the doorway. My entryway quickly became an ice rink and down I went! I landed right on my tailbone and hitting my arm on the doorjamb. The adjacent day I was walking around my automobile in the parking lot and didn't meet the patch of water ice behind my automobile and down I went again! My tailbone injure after the first fall simply after hitting information technology a second time, I could barely walk. The motorcar is torture. I feel every lilliputian crash-land. I take to slide off of the couch. I can't observe a comfy position at night in bed. I oasis't gone to the medico and am taking 600mg of ibuprofen to reduce any inflammation. According to my mother, there is not much they can do for the tail bone and I have a long road to recovery. Hot baths with Epsom salts work the best. Best of luck to anyone else suffering. Your friend in misery.

Comment from: Ellen, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: February 09

I fell off a bicycle nearly iii yrs ago and was told by doctors that there was naught I could practise. To this day I take bad pain in the tailbone when sitting, such every bit at a desk, on the sofa or at the movies. This injury has changed my life every bit I take trouble sitting upright for whatsoever length of time. I can get no medical advice or prognosis on my condition so I judge I accept to put upwards with it for life!

Comment from: babygotback, 35-44 Female person (Patient) Published: February 08

72 hours ago I took a bad fall downward a flight of indoor carpeted stairs (about 23 of them). I must have hit my tailbone 4 times before tumbling over spraining my arm, my ankle and finally...at the bottom getting a huge gash on the top of my head...this was bad. I toughed it out for 24 hrs and then finally went to the ER because the headache was then intense and I was afraid of infection and the bruise to my tailbone was and then bad and sore. Turns out after CT scan to my caput and Ten-ray to my tailbone, all is ok (and I'chiliad lucky) only I want to die from this tailbone injury. Honestly I've had 2 kids. I'm a tough cookie. Getting in and out of the car is pure misery. I would gladly accept the head injury any solar day over this pain and they gave me 600mg of ibuprofen, which is more like Pez. I want to go on crying. This is brutal.

Comment from: Zero1, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: January 26

I fell on water ice yesterday, and landed on my tailbone extremely difficult. My coccyx area has throbbed non-finish now for two days, and it is almost impossible to discover a comfortable position to stand/lay/sit. Sitting downwards or getting up is pure misery, and trying to find a position to lie is torture. I'thousand ordinarily not a wimp, and have a loftier hurting tolerance, but this has literally kicked my tail (no pun intended). If this takes every bit long to heal every bit people are proverb, and then just shoot me and get it over with. I tin't take aspirin or Aleve or ibuprofen, and then I'm on my own in that location. Judge I'll give up and go to run across my doctor tomorrow and see what they say I can do. Sure exercise hope they tin can practise something, equally this is much more painful than fifty-fifty whatsoever surgery I've had. Wow--who'd have thought that you can actually pause y'all backside?

Comment from: lulu, 45-54 Female person (Caregiver) Published: Jan 24

Two years ago I fell in a store and bankrupt my tailbone, I still feel it at times when I sit or turn a certain fashion. Last Saturday I fell and again broke my tailbone although non in the aforementioned identify. The pain is horrible like last fourth dimension and once more I am looking forward to the long recovery. This is a very painful injury and it changes your life in many means. I work in the ER and know that I will be on my side or tummy with an ice pack attached to me for several weeks.

Comment from: JBM, 45-54 (Patient) Published: January eighteen

About 6 months agone I was in my living room and fell comatose on my couch. I fell comatose in an bad-mannered position, with my rear end correct on the edge of the couch, with my legs hanging over, and all my weight on more or less on my tailbone area. When I woke upwardly in the morning, I had large pain in my tailbone surface area. Felt similar someone hit me with a baseball bat. After a couple weeks the bad pain more or less cleared up, simply I still have modest pain and have to be conscientious with I sit. From reading all these other comments, it looks I may be in for a long, long full recovery catamenia (if at all). Nothing tin be washed... simply be conscientious and so you don't aggravate your injury.

Comment from: KAT, 25-34 Female (Caregiver) Published: Jan 10

I fractured my tailbone iii years ago and I nonetheless experience pain. This injury has altered my life a lot.

Comment from: anne dc, 75 or over Female Published: January 06

Pain has been periodic for 60 years (fractured mine in a horseback fall when I was fifteen). Through peculiar (or non-) understanding of such injuries, I was required to go back on horse, and not immune to stand to swallow or get medical attention. Sitting was excruciating. Caused detail problems with childbirth, I now want to know if it could be related to reduced curvature in my spine (I'm told that norm is 36%, my MRI shows 13%), resulting in pain continuing, sitting, inability to find comfortable seating or sleeping positions.

Comment from: Diane, 55-64 Female person (Patient) Published: June 17

I fell ten months ago while gardening. I landed on a large rock right on my tailbone area of my barrel. I didn't recollect much of it until the pain seemed to be increasing every bit fourth dimension passed. Afterwards experiencing extreme hurting while sitting, I finally decided to go to my doc. She sent me for an EX-Ray and when I went back to see her, she said everything was fine. I went dwelling and after another couple of months, I returned to my doctor with the same complaint. She so sent me for a bone scan and that too appeared to exist normal. It has been x months at present, and I am and then tired of not being able to sit down on anything simply a direct chair comfortably. The hurting is now hitting when I go to stand up up. My doctor has never examined me, and makes me feel like this is all in my head, when I know it isn't, it is a big pain in the butt. I am allergic to whatever anti-inflammatory, due to a blood clotting status.

Comment from: Grannieroofie, 65-74 Female (Patient) Published: May 31

I vicious 10 days ago flat on my Coccyx on difficult woods floor. I was trying to be real careful since I crushed my wrist in Nov. and in April I barbarous and fractured my arm, had surgery both times and a week afterwards my last surgery, I had to take another ane to have a metallic plate inserted with vi screws for more support. Y'all better believe when I fell on my butt I held my arm upward out of it touching anything! I can sit and it doesn't hurt, lay and information technology doesn't hurt only try getting up or downwardly or walking and the pain is excruciating! I also take severe arthritis and Fibromyalgia, the doctor says because of those things information technology could have longer to heal I've had a lot of surgeries in my life and I don't bounce back like I used to at present that I'm 67 years. one-time. I've had 5 back surgeries and right now I accept 4 ruptured disc, I simply tin't go well enough information technology seems to go get my back taken intendance of. I feel deplorable for anyone with a cleaved tail bone!!

Comment from: broken67, thirteen-eighteen Female (Patient) Published: March 29

I broke my tailbone in a snowboarding accident Jan28th 2011. I still tin only sit down for 3 hours a twenty-four hour period and cannot practise whatever sort of activeness. I accept missed a calendar month of school and tin still only go to two classes a twenty-four hours. I am very frustrated! I heard information technology takes about nine months to heal, merely two and a half months afterward I am nonetheless in a lot of hurting.

Comment from: MN Gadget Girl, 35-44 (Patient) Published: March 14

I roughshod VERY hard, while skiing, 9 days agone. Of course the first thing to hit the snow was my tailbone, nothing broke the autumn. It knocked the wind out of me. I have suffered in excruciating silence for ix days, thinking in that location was zero anyone could practice for me. And then today, I called my chiropractor. He indicated the healing time could be longer or impaired all together, if there was a fracture or dislocation of the coccyx. I immediately went in, and he said I adapted very easily. The aligning was not painful and I although I still have some pain, information technology is not as excruciating as before, and I am sitting more comfortably today. My advice to everyone, see a chiropractor, who knows what he is doing. I will re-post to tell you when I am completely healed. Thank you for this information.

Annotate from: lozzaa, thirteen-18 Female Published: March 09

I slipped most 4/5 years ago and still suffer nowhere almost every bit much equally I was but if I sit for a long period of time or lay in a funny position I all the same get the pain I had all those years ago. I've had physiotherapy but said at that place was nada they could practice information technology will just self heal, over a long catamenia of time.

Comment from: plowgirl, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: February 22

I had my tailbone injury when I vicious in driveway a while ago. The pain lasted for many long weeks. Could not sit stand up or get upwards. Now took ten-rays and tailbone is off to one side. My doctor talked about having it removed.

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