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Question:
What causes tailbone pain? It's very difficult to sit for too long on most
chairs. I have learned to take a little pillow with me if I am going to be
sitting long, even in the car.
Answer:
I think it is a common pain site with fibro. What cause it?
What causes all our pain! Our damaged muscles, I assume. I also have back and leg pain which also goes down into my tailbone.
Usually when I get tailbone pain like this (where it hurts my hip sockets and
shoots down my leg) it's always something I did a week before. Never something
I can put my finger on 'that' moment.
Did you ever fall on your tail bone? I've noticed that anything that I have
damaged badly over the years hurts. I fell off my bicycle when I was a kid. I
was riding down a drive way and I hit some loose sand, the bike went out from
under me and I stradled the curb.
Actually, tailbone pain can occur much like arthritis pain occurs after a
fracture. Many people have broken their coccyx at some time or other --
women can even break theirs in childbirth. If you've ever had a broken
bone, you may experience pain there when the weather changes.
Other things that may have caused a fractured coccyx such as falling down
and landing on your butt (ice, stairs, etc.).
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