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TailboneDoctor said
on 10/29/2009 Dear brwmkw, sorry to hear about your pain. While I can not give treatment advice in this forum, I suggest that you see a local musculoskeletal doctor for starters, and see what results you get from there. Also, if you go to my website www.TailboneDoctor.com and enter your email in the yellow box it will sign you up for a newsletter that will give more info. than I can fit here.
brwmkw said
on 10/1/2009 My pain just came about suddenly.. No injury or nothing just started hurting with each day getting worse. It's to the point now I can hardly sit. Just as the article stated I sat on one side leaning kinda forward, sat on one leg, etc. But now nothing is working, and it's starting to be pretty painful to stand and walk. It's driving my crazy, and I can't find a doctor that's been of any help... All I hear is "you had to have injured it Mrs. ..., this just doesn't happen." But then I got on the net and found out about coccydynia. What I am experiencing sound just like it.. Please someone help me!!!!! What type of doctor do I need to go to for help? I so need some relief of this excruciating pain.
brwmkw said
on 10/1/2009 My pain just came about suddenly.. No injury or nothing just started hurting with each day getting worse. It's to the point now I can hardly sit. Just as the article stated I sat on one side leaning kinda forward, sat on one leg, etc. But now nothing is working, and it's starting to be pretty painful to stand and walk. It's driving my crazy, and I can't find a doctor that's been of any help... All I hear is "you had to have injured it Mrs. ..., this just doesn't happen." But then I got on the net and found out about coccydynia. What I am experiencing sound just like it.. Please someone help me!!!!! What type of doctor do I need to go to for help? I so need some relief of this excruciating pain.
TailboneDoctor said
on 7/29/2009 Dear Kryker, I am sorry to hear about the pain that you have been having. I can not give personalized medical advice via the eHow website. But I can suggest that you ask your treating doctor whether the pain is coming from the tailbone or not, since you mention caudal injection and SI (sacroiliac) joint injections, but not coccyx injections (which would be the site typically injected if this is tailbone pain). All the best.
kryker said
on 7/26/2009 Dr. Foye, I have been enduring pain when I sit for 2 years. I have not had an injury. I did have Herrington Rods over 25 years ago for scoliosis. It started after travelling for my job for 6 straight months and working long hours sitting. I have done all the things in your article to relieve the pain as I sit; lean forward, sit on one side and put my leg up under me for relief. I have been to my PCP and been given NSAID's, pain medication, Aleve, chiropractor visits, SI joint injections (caudal and into each joint) with no relief. I have had X-rays and an MRI that show nothing to lead suspicion of the cause. I am still travelling and absolutely dread my plane trips. I am at a loss of where to go next. Any suggestions of where I need to go from here? Thank you!
TailboneDoctor said
on 5/3/2009 Dear tomasusa, I am very sorry to hear about the TAILBONE PAIN (coccyx pain) and multiple other painful areas that you have been experiencing, as you have noted in various postings on my eHow articles. While I can not give you medical advice (since I have not seen you as a patient), I have sent you some general information to your email address that you provided here on eHow and that you also provided via the newsletter sign-up at my website: www.TailboneDoctor.com. Giving my reply via the newsletter from the TailboneDoctor.com website allows me to give more text/info and also respects your confidentiality by avoiding having you post further medical details in the public forum here at eHow. I hope you find the info. helpful.
claypot86 said
on 10/4/2008 I fell on my coccyx in aug 08 and i am in agony.i went to the hospital 2 weeks after the incident as i was on holiday at the time and they said theres no point in an x-ray but from the examination they believed it was broken.They could only offer me 2 weeks of morphine to ease the pain and 2 months on it feels worse than ever!!!
i am very cautious when it comes to my coccyx as unlike any other 'normal' woman mine actually curves outwards instead of under (i understand a males coccyx is straight)I find it is most painful when trying to stand and not actually when i am sat although it is uncomfortable....i feel like gravity is trying to pull my coccyx to the floor and the burning sensation is unreal.Last year i saw a specialist about my low coccyx who said i could have course of steroid which they can only offer 3month max or it to be operated on which is a 50-50 chance of success....i am
Shirley Philbrick said
on 9/5/2008 Well done article. I have massage clients with tailbone area pain from time to time, and depending on the cause, we usually search for soft tissue problems first. When necessary, I refer out, but you are correct, many MD's are not familiar with evaluating issues of the tailbone.
Pixie1976 said
on 6/21/2008 thank you
bake4u said
on 5/3/2008 very interesting