Tail bone pain is a pain

How long will my tail bone ache.  My wife doesn't understand, I move from the chair, couch, bed, standing, pillows, no pillows, to the edge, lounger, dang!

I remember it vividly and I know how bothersome it is.  The muscles and bones will readjust and it will go away for the most part.  I get it very occasionally now, but they are never as severe as they were. Good luck.

That’s an issue for most, And it does get better, and/or go away completely. You’ve got the added Ache, From having mashed it for quite a while up on a hospital bed. Ask the Physical Therapist what exercises That’ll help get that to feeling better. I swear by my physical Therapist. Did more for me than most Doctors and meds ever have. Till then, more pillows! Best Wishes- Dx

 

DX,

What kinds of things did your physical therapist have you do for that?  After all the time I spent stuck in bed... 2 years later and I still get that burning if I sit up too long.

Dale

 

Oh my aching butt! When u lose that fat you also lose some padding back there. I couldn't ride a bike at all or sit in a chair for long. It was like restless leg sydrome, but more like hurting butt syndrome for crying out loud! Nothing seemed to help. Even a nice feather pillow was rejected by my aching sacrailliac. Eventually, with me. some of that padding returned, and quite thankfully I might add. I think i had lost a little too much, and I hated being called baggy butt. lol

Yup, me too when it comes to NOT understanding how skinny folks could sit in an office chair hour after hour, day after day. Made me go out and buy a real comfy exec chair-- it was dear, but my butt is no longer sore at all. Course, that said, everywhere I go I do squirm still a bit to try to get comfortable, but then I guess most skinny folks do...never ever thought that my old FAT ass would be like a pillow. Still tho...am not disppointed it's LONG gone! Jim

I forgot about the tail bone pain until I saw your post.  It is funny how it was such a great cushion for so many years and then it feels like sitting on a rock.  I recently incorporated squats and straight leg dead lifts and my butt is finally starting to look a little more round and less like a deflated bag.

So now you are on the Loser's Bench and a member of the Boney Butt Club. How does it feel too be so accepted and in such an eliteand stealthy organization?? May I recommend the rotary sit? You sit and as the killer keister syndrome sets-in, you rotate from one cheek to the other, then lean forward so the balance is on the upper legs infront of the butt base, then conclude the rotation with leaning back to the back of the butt.  Repeat until standing is an option.   Once able to cross one's legs, the alternating cheeks movement becomes less obvoius.   Also make the effort to put your hands together at the fingertips when crossing your legs.  It makes one look more meditiative, mature, and more like an intentive listener and less like you are trying to mimic of Sharon Stone; unless your intent is to,...mimic Sharon Stone. 

 I still have this problem somewhat, @ 15 months out ..  As someone pointed out here, we have less padding back there now, so it makes us more "sensitive" in that area - ugh!   On a simlar note, has anyone had "xyphoid process issues" since their weight loss (that's the little piece of bone in the middle of the breastbone that hangs down over the lower heart area)?    I remember the first time I was lying down, several months post-op, and, after running my hand down my chest, happened to discover this bone sticking out from my chest!    wtf????   I freaked out, thinking that I was having some kind of cardiac "hernia" or perhaps that my heart had enlarged so much over my many years of "fatdom" and high b.p. that  the sac was sticking out around the breastbone!    I immediately emailed some WLS buds of mine that were many years out (both nurses) and they advised me that the "re-discovery" of the XP is something that many WLS patients go through after major weight loss.  They told me about one gal that was so bothered by hers being so "protrusive" that she had it shaved/planed down as part of her PS!