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Chipped Coccyx/Tailbone

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  • 01-08-2010 8:14pm
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    Lux23
    Registered Users Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,
    I chipped my coccyx about a week ago and the medical professionals have told me that its very hard to judge how long it will take to recover. Has anyone got any experiences with it?


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    #2
    KittyeeTrix
    Registered Users Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    I fell about 3 years ago on a wooden stairs landing really hard on my backside. I hurt my hand so badly that I didn't really pay any notice to the pain in my "backside" if you will. A year and a half passed with no pain, discomfort, nothing. My mum then had a stroke and I spent the best part of a month sitting around the hospital with her.
    I then started to notice after this month lots of pressure pain when I would sit at a certain angle and also pain when I would try to stand up from a seated position. At the same time I noticed I was having difficulty in the bathroom department (pooing:o, sorry). went to the doc who sent me for an x-ray and he told me I had displaced my coccyx and that it had been fractured in the past.....:eek:
    I was sitting thinking "WHAT"????????? and I then remembered the "stairs incident" a year and a half previously..
    He told me that this would've been when it fractured but had then healed but the prolonged sitting had displaced it!!

    This doctors visit was 2 years ago next month and it took about 4-5 months for me to sit comfortably or get up from a prolonged seated position, that said it was never excrutiating but just there if ya get me...

    At the moment, I'm grand but once in a while if I sit too long at an awkward angle it can manifest itself a little again..


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    dollydishmop
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    Ooooh, you have my sympathies! All of them! :eek:

    I broke my coccyx several years ago, and it was at least 2 years before I was pain-free.

    At the time when it was most painful, the problem wasn't standing up in itself, or even sitting down....but the process of getting up or sitting down was pure agony! And if I sat down for long periods, again it didn't hurt to sit so much, but I'd have to roll onto my front and push myself up off the chair/sofa etc with my hands if I wanted to stand up, as I just couldn't bend at the waist! Very comical to watch I'm sure :o

    In the end mine re-set itself slightly bent to one side, and it possible that is why it took so long. When it was discovered that it ended up bent, my GP offered to refer me to specialist that could re-break it, and possibly pin/staple it to stay straight, if I wanted (or whatever the procedure entailed?)...I (not-so) politely declined the offer :eek::p:D Now the pain has gone, the fact that it is bent is totally irrelevant to everyday life. I get a little sciatica on that side, but no idea if that is purely co-incidental or as a result...but still, no way it'd volunteer to have it re-broken!


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