Coccyx

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Has anyone had surgery to stop your coccyx (tail bone from hurting)? I bought a coccyx cushion for my car and I see a chiropractor once a month for adjustments but it only helps for a little while.

[crocodoxie 223]

I fell twice, once down stairs, a year later, slid on black ice. After 6 years of going through every cushion known to man, having deep injections, and working with a pain clinic, I finally found a doctor who removed my tailbone! It had been broken all that time, and nobody found it....bad imaging. Bangs head on desk. Anyway, two bones removed...one broken, one loose that kept scraping nerves, and finally I have my life back.

There's a website coccyx.org that offers ideas/people's situations and what worked for them, and other things. Maybe you can find something helpful there. It's a great resource for coccyx pain. (I am not related to it in anyway. I simply researched the heck out of zillions of coccyx things over the years)

You have my sympathy. It's the kind of chronic pain that's hard to describe, but sucked away my soul for such a long time.

[crocodoxie 223]

OH! And I sit on a heating pad constantly..even to this day. I work from a home office....but it helped a ton with at least the muscles that tighten up all around.

[Sherrie Scharbrough 311]

Thank you for posting this!! I am going to check that site out. I also am having a heck of a time with my knees. Whenever I lie down since I have tom sleep on my side now. (I was always a stomach sleeper) but due to back surgery, WLS and my Panni I had to learn to sleep on my side. My knee's hit each other and it actually has bruised my knee's. I used a small pillow for awhile but it quit helping. Then I ordered a knee pillow but it isn't very comfortable. After my WL I have had arthur show up bad!! When I ask my PCP why after I l;ost 124's and he told me if I hadn't lost the weight I would be in a wheelchair by now. WOW!!! Dodged that bullet. I am going to go tro that site now. I have pillows in my car in my chair everywhere I sit. Man it is terrible the things we go thru. I wouldn't trade it back tho. LOL

[ryan_86 335]

I just had an injection around my coccyx. It worked for s couple days. The thought of removing it is not as foreign now as a month ago, but first I'll try another injection.

A pain management doctor administers the injection in a clinic. Wasn't very comfortable but not as painful as anticipated. Hurt more later just from soreness. But if it fixed it, because everyone is different, totally worth it.

I found the knee pillow became more comfortable the more weight I lost. I think it's just a thing to get used to.

[crocodoxie 223]

Yeah, I've had about 10 of those at the surg. center, where it's the deep injection, over the years. Please take in mind, I had been through 6 years of stuff, tons of imagining, etc...and was using a cane some days, and thought I might end up with a walker...it continued to deteriorate....and then it was difficult to find somebody to do it. It's a surgery most avoid because of the location. Very high rate of infection. I had eight stitches IN MY BUTT CRACK. I did not go to this person, but there's a doc...something like tail bone doc or something that might be somebody that has more information if it calls for that.

I just don't want to give the impression that you can go, I'd like to have it removed and they go, sure thing! It's actually the opposite. The idea of removing bones from the body in this circumstance is seen as an aboslute last resort, but if you find no relief, know that there are options. It was an extremely difficult journey and recovery was tough, but for me, the recovery was a cake-walk over the pain I was in 24/7. Fight for yourself if you need to. It changed my life for the better.

[ryan_86 335]

My pain management doctor did tell me that an intermediate step would be manual manipulation of the bone. It seems my coccyx is bent, and prior to resorting to surgery they would try to straighten the bone manually via the rectum.

I think I'd rather not.

But I say that now...