I have posted on Pain Management with little response so thought I would try here. Does anyone else have tailbone pain? Thanks

Hi Katrina, is there anyway you can be more specific, are you having any other problems with the pain, a injury ,etc. I beleive there may be someone on this site with that problem, personal i never experienced it, does it radiate? I hope you get the answers you neea soon, take care

We have so much info on this board about this subject. I posted a lot about it too since this is my big problem before the surgery and after still.
So maybe you can browse through treads and you can get some info for yourself.
Feel better!

I have posted on Pain Management with little response so thought I would try here. Does anyone else have tailbone pain? Thanks
I have persistent leg pain with L4-l5 - occasionally I have tail bone pain.

Thanks for telling me to search for the word as it seems I find more when I put in tail bone then tailbone. That was helpful information. I was sure there were more people out there with this problem.

Dear Katarina, I get tailbone pain, but it is referred pain from my sacro iliac joints. After I get sacroiliac injections, the tailbone pain gets better. The pain can be excrutiating! I find that sitting on one of those wedge shaped pillows with a "cut out" for your tailbone helps. I think it is called a "cush tush" :) When my tailbone area hurts, I take that thing everywhere! I think you can also get injections around the tailbone area too. Good luck! Kera4

I have had problems with my tailbone since having children some 22 years ago. Recently since my last hip replacement however I've had extreme tailbone pain. It seems that if I move around a certain way, especially when getting in bed, it feels as though my tailbone actually moves around and it causes excruciating pain.

The months after my surgery I had horrible tailbone pain. The PT kept saying it was inflammation. I still get it on and off. It all hurts. One day the tailbone. The next day on the sides of the incision. Another day the hip and leg. It all moves around.

i WOULD SAY PROBABLY THE WAY YOU SIT..SCAR TISSUE. iT TOOK MONTHS AND MONTHS FOR MINE TO HEAL

I have been getting tailbone pain for a long time now and I find it when its at its worst I can hardly move. I do more of a shuffle than a walk when it hits me. And its one of those pains that is hard to explain as I'm sitting here trying to explain what it feels like. So to me its like my muscles connected to it are so tight that it feels as if its gunna rip the muscles while there is a constant electricl shock runnung through the spot.

My hips mostly hurt when I stand up after sitting for a while. Must be the pressure or something.

I recently had a spinal fusion in the lower back. Since then I have tail bone pain. I informed my surgeon but he just sent me to a pain management specialist who informed me that he does not treat bone pain. Sometimes it feels as though the bone is cracked. I believe I am going to request an Xray .

I too have tail bone pain which I didn't have before my laminectomy of L5-S1 5 weeks ago. I was thinking it must be the way I am sitting/walking to splint the back. Now I see that there are many others with the same issue. My PT also said it is inflammation and the surgeon just put back on an oral steroid course yesterday because I am still having buttock pain, occasional calf, foot and arch pain. Anyone else with this??

Dear Katirina!!! YES YES YES!!! My tailbone pain rules my life practically! I first broke it when I fell down some stairs. As I fell, my tailbone hit the end of each step and when I got to the bottom I was in shock and could barely move. The next day my folks took me to the hospital and I had a clear break. Then about 2 years later I was rollerblading with my then small child and I fell on my first try on the darn rollerblades and rebroke it again. Mind you that was about 10 years ago and I still have agony from it. I cannot have any massage therapy because it hurts too much to the touch, I have tried steroid injections, and it didnt help at all, also tried trigger point injections which left me pain free for the first time in a decade until the pain medicine he used for the injections wore off, and lastly I have tried a chiropractor, who on the first visit was able to actually crack my tailbone! Dang that felt good for the second, and then the pain came back. I also now have pain that radiates from the tailbone down my legs to my feet and that pain can only be described as what I call "frozen bone" the bones in my legs down to my feet feel as if they are frozen cold, eventhough my skin is warm to the touch. This pain got even worse after I had a hysterectomy/bladder reconstruction surgery and put me out of a job and onto disability. I have since then been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Disease to name a few, but the Chronic Myofascial Pain Disease is what the trigger point surgeon told me I have around my tailbone now. It is actually a disease of the muscles. My tailbone has completely healed. I have to lay down on a daily basis with my legs elevated and put an icepack on my tailbone area. If I stand for more than 3-4 minutes the entire area spasms and I have to lay back down. I hope your pain is not as bad as mine, but I would look into the Chronic Myofascial Pain Disease thing and see if you can find some answers. Best of luck, let me know if you find out anything!....Kari