Odd question about tailbone or lower spine

This is going to sound weird, I know, but just recently I noticed -- when putting lotion on -- that I can easily feel a bone that I have never noticed before.  Feeling my pelvic bones was a new and exciting event once I dropped a lot of weight, but I am 6 years out, and have never noticed this in all that time.

It is kind of hard to describe, but it is at the base of my spine, at about the midpoint of the gluteal muscles.  I know the tailbone extends in a curved manner from the end of the spine, but the diagrams always show it being a continual curving of the spine and this feels like a sudden end to the bone (and I don't feel anything curving).  I can take two fingers and push in and curl them under this bone (and not feel any other bone). When I run my hand down my spine, the bone slightly bulges out at the end (about the last inch of it) and the abrupt ending of the bone is quite easily felt.  When I am sitting, I can reach around and feel this bone just above the seat. It almost seems like I actually have no tailbone... that the spine just ends.

I would think that my massage therapist would have commented on it if it was unusual, but maybe not (probably isn't good for business to make comments on body anomalies). Anyway, just wondering if other people and this or not.

Lora

This just confirms what many of us already suspected - ****rogirl is not human.  Nobody of such a helpful nature and insight could be of this world.

P.S. - I have it too.

LMBO !!!  

LOL.  Thanks.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who has this.  It just doesn't FEEL like the pictures look.

Lora

This is going to be graphic, so bare with me.

When doing a digital rectal exam or removal of impacted stool on thin people you can actually cup your hand around the tail bone and feel both sides.

I have cared for those with fractured or dislocated tail bones that are essentially free floating, crooked, chipped, irregular etc.

As our padding diminishes the prominence of such protruding is accentuated as I KNOW you have seen !

Thanks for the info.  It just surprised me that I had not noticed it in all this time.  I guess the increased sagging in my butt is worse than I thought, leaving that bone more exposed! 

Lora

Might be from YEARS of getting it chew on this site.......

Good thing you have strong mind and shoulders...

I feel it and it creeps me out! It sometimes hurts in yoga and it amazes me that I never felt it before in my life!

This is so weird, but i just found this same bone last night. I started freaking out and my husband was unsure of what it was as well. Glad you asked and got answers, now i don't have to worry!

Mine feels like a door knob