Seriously, I’m in serious pain. I can’t sit down for long periods of time and standing up from a sitting position is excrutiating. Also, it is affecting my walk.
I think I hurt it by working out too hard last week. I finally went running with my girlfriend (I’m semi-retired). She said that she could beat me, and she almost did (holy cow is she fast now). That was the worst 3 miles of my life, though, a pretty good time. I continued to lift, but I guess I wasn’t stretching enough. Three days later, my whole back was stiff, but after using the sauna at the gym, it was just my shoulders and tailbone. One day later, and now it’s just my tailbone, and it is killing me.
It feels like my muscles are super tight. So, I guess my question is: how do I stretch this? My girlfriend offered to get one of those circular life preserver things from work for me. (She’s laughing her ass off :)) Should I use ice? Heating pad?
It is worth seeing a Doctor, and any chiropractice/physiotherapy your health insurance covers. You don’t want to risk this become some sort of permanent back pain.
Yeah see a doctor if you can. It may be impossible for you to stretch the muscles you need to stretch - especially from advice from a message board. A doctor might prescribe you muscle relaxers that will give you comfort and in turn help the muscle heal.
It also might be more than just a muscle pull. You do NOT want to have a terminally injured butt!!
It took me nearly two years to be able to sit comfortably without some sort of cushion when I re-injured my coccyx. I seriously bruised myself years ago and it flared up again years later. I avoided concerts, sports events, seminars and even meetings where hard chairs were the norm. Time is probably the unfortunate answer, unless you’ve done some other sort of damage.
Obviously see a doctor.
My personal coccyx breaking experience involved hitting it on a rock whilst snowboarding.
I took a buttload of ibuprofen for the rest of the holiday and I didn’t sit down much for a good few months. Eventually I went to a doctor who probed around my coccyx for a while and told me all I could do was take ibuprofen, don’t twist and put torsional loads on your lower back and take more ibuprofen, they could not exactly put it in a cast, oh and take a lot of ibuprofen.
5 years later it still gives me grief if I sit still for too long.
Obviously I am not a doctor and that was his advice for my problem, so go see someone who knows better.
cheers
If you don’t see a doctor, you have no way of knowing what you’ve injured. You may, indeed, have a broken coccyx, or you may have a lower-back spasm. I’ve had them both, but the treatments are very different.