Tailbone Removal

At a seminar I attended that Dr. Lomonaco spoke at, he mentioned some people have severe pain with their tailbone after losing massive amounts of weight.  He mentioned that he sometimes will remove the tailbone to alleviate the pain.

Laura

Thanks Laura..!!

I have lost ALL my backside..never had much of one of those EVER..but Thankfully I don't have that problem...

Thank you..!!

cyndy

Hi Lady Lithia, good to see you on this board, but sorry that you're dealing with the pain. I'm glad to hear you're moving around a lot more than you first thought - that's actually good news

I  assume you're being really careful to keep your sodium level extremely low so the swelling is limited to healing and not any excess fluids.

I never see anyone discussing giving themselves injections for pain or using pain patches - but I would assume that perhaps this would get around the pouch/NSAIDS problem?  Not sure if this is an option but you could ask your surgeon if this is available.

Hiya!

I'm very glad of my mobility, I know some folks are just debilitated with this surgery. For me it's just a matter of pain. I know that the inflammation has inflamed both my sciatic nerves and my entire pelvis is very painful.

I know that fentanyl is available as a pain patch, but I don't want to go that extreme (would have been a good idea in the beginning). The doc altered up my routine with the pain meds and it is mostly controlled now. But it botheres me that it isn't diminishing in intensity, and leads me to believe that it is the inflammation that is leading to continued pain.

I know that there are anti-inflammatory patches that a person can use and i'll ask about those when I see the surgeon on Tuesday. That and Nexium. I just don't know if there aer protocols that surgeons who work with RNY patients might follow because of the malabsorption issues and the NSAID issues.