Help, My Ass hurts

I am hoping some one here will have some insight on my newest issue.  Now that I have lost just over 220 lbs my tail bone or the skin around their hurts like hell.  I feel it when I am sitting,  But damn when I have to stand back up it just about kills me.  I dont know if its my pre-hencel tail or what but I gotta figure something out.  I thought maybe it was because I lost all my padding back their. But now its been around 4 months and seems to get worse each week.   I have tried everything I can think of but at this point I am out of ideas,  I tried a hemroid ring, different chairs.  Hell it even hurts if I am laying on my back.   Got a doctors appointment next week. 

I thought you were coming out of the closet with that title. The doc will prolly have some rcommendations for your boney-ass syndrome!

This is a very common problem.  Russ taught me that by doing some squats or lunges you can build up some ass muscle to help lift the bones off the seat.   I did 30 squats each morning and after a week it seem to help. After that, walking and other leg related execises help long term .

I'm no doc, but now that you've lost 220 (major congrats, BTW) you may be irritating a long-dormant pilonidal cyst.  I first learned I had one when I was a teenager. For more info than you ever wanted to know, try this:  http://www.pilonidal.org/ When I had my first painful inflamation, there wasn't much they could do except treat the symptoms.  I understand now they have some effective surgical techniques.  Haven't gone that route myself yet, because my flare-ups are few and far between. Good luck. 

Wow, me too.  I couldn't sit down for two weeks in 1980; it turned out to be an infected pilonidal cyst.  A quick lancing, draining and packing (under local anesthesia) fixed me right up, and it's never recurred. The surgeon explained that embryonically, we're a bit like a piece of taffy, with the location of the pilonidal cyst, at the top of the ass crack (he didn't use those words!), pulled inside the base of the tailbone.  Especially in hairy men, the cyst can exude sebum and grow hair within it, all of which doesn't have anywhere to go.  Pain and infection often follows. A LOT of WLSers, including a majority of women, who probably don't have pilonidal cysts, complain about a sore tailbone.  It must come from a reduction of the fat padding around the base of the ****yx. /Steve

Wow, www.pilonidal.org was very informative! /Steve

I know just what your talking about. I think what herb said is your best bet. It is just going to take some time to relearn how to sit. Jus****ch how you are sitting the most comfterble way might be to slouch and that can cause more problems. Since my 150lb weight loss my hole spine has been out of wack. I am three years out and have started seeing a chiropracter. so far it really seems to behelping. It is funny how we want to lose weight so bad than sit arround trying to figure out why were cold and our ass hurts......lol Insulation and padding...... Hope you have a great day, Derrick

Yeah.  Now that you mention it, I DO feel like I'm freezing my ass off, all the time. HEY!  Maybe that will eliminate the sore ass problem! 

Yea its funny that I was never cold before(wls)  than I was freezing all the time....lol and no the ass still hurts. Thats why I go to Hawaii so much it is nice and warm.... Derrick

I have this problem all of the time in my house since WLS.  I look like an old man because I sit in my recliner in the winter wearing a hoodie, a winter coat, and often have an afghan and/or quilt on top of that.  I complained about it last year to my PCP and he put me on a prescribed dose of 1 pill of vitamin D at 1.25 MG per week in addition to the vitamin D  that comes with my calcium supplements.  I just had more blood work done and everything is fine except for my vitamin D level so he's doubling it. I suggest that those of you who are feeling cold have blood work done and see if there's a problem with your blood or body chemistry that can be easily remedied.