I recently had a fall, and badly bruised my tailbone. Any suggestions for relieving discomfort, (i take meds)?
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i have done this too, the best thing to do is to keep the tailbone suspended in the air, and to keep it cold(reduces pain) but not to put ice directly on it.. and try to put as little weight on it as possible
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Try mssaging the hip area with dragon balm or tiger balm.\nIt is POSSIBLE that you have inflammation in the joint, arthritis, a muscle or ligament tear, sciatica caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve or any one of many other problems - IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DIAGNOSE REMOTELY.\n\nDo you know a good osteopath or chiropractor?\n\nThey will assess your injury, most likely massage your lumbar area - including gluts and piriformis - and then adjust you (crack). There is a high success rate with this kind of thing. Numbness usually indicates that there is pressure on a nerve, shooting pains too. Sounds a LOT like sciatica.\n\nI wonder what you did that brought this on?\nSome advice:\nDon't carry your wallet in your back pocket anymore - sitting will be uneven. \nNo crossing the legs either.\nYou can try lying down on the ground - on your back, with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.\nLean sideways and slide a rolled up towel (1-1/2 inches diameter) under you lower back and lie straight again. Slowly lower your knees to the floor so that you basically have a bump under your hips. If this hurts the towel is too thick or you are in too much muscle spasm for this gentle stretch to help.\nIf it doen't hurt, just feel into the stretch - allow the muscles in the lower back to relax. You can stay here for 3-4minutes.\nLean sideways and pull the towel out.\n\n\nThe above will all help - I urge you to see a professional - you don't have to live with this pain.
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try resting one leg on a med. sized table and one on the ground, dont force your self to go down, just drop you body weight, if it gets to uncomfortable just stop.
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Rest with the foot elevated (above heart level)and apply ice for a minimum of 20 minutes on, 30 minutes off. Anything less than 20 minutes is not going to help. Also, do not apply heat. That's like throwing fuel onto the fire. You can also take an anti-inflammatory such as Tylenol or Advil.\n\nJust be careful and take pre-cautions with the ankle such as taping it for awhile. I lost a college scholarship when I sprained my ankle one too many times and ended up having to have the tendons and ligaments surgically repaired.
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Go to a doctor immediately.  I had something similar happen to me as a teen.  What I didn't know is I tore a tendon right off the bone.  My other tendons compensated and over the years started snapping off one by one.  Each time I'd be in horrible pain and couldn't walk right for a few weeks.  In my 30's my wife finally got sick of me complaining so she made me go to the doctor.  One MRI later and we found all I had left was one tendon.  The large one in front.  They had to cut me open.  They sliced the strips from the big tendon and reattached them to my knee.  Two months of painful physical therapy later and my leg won't straighten the whole way.\nThe plus side is I don't occasionally fall without warning.\nLet this be a cautionary tale.  Get to a doctor.  Better safe than sorry.
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Take a Dixie cup or some other small paper cup and put water in there and freeze it.  After you get back from the run, grab the ice and tear of the paper a little ways to uncover the ice.  Then use it to massage your ankles and shins.  This really helps stop the swelling and inflamation and thus the pain.  Popping a few Advil can also help get rid of the inflamation.  Try running on grass.  It's softer and absorbs more of the force.  Also go out to a running store and have them help you pick out shoes.  I remember walking into one once and they had me take off my shoes and walk in front of them.  They came back with a pair of shoes the fit my high arches perfectly and gave me the right amount of support.  It was pretty amazing and it did help my shin splints get better.  If you find that the right shoes, grass running, and ice massages don't help, you may actually have stress fractures.  Give it a few weeks to see if the pain goes away.  If you still have it, and it hurts to even walk, go into your doctor for an xray.  Before I got really good shoes I had shin splints so bad that I was actually getting really close to tearing through my tendions.  At least that's what my doctor said.  Hope that helps!  Oh, and one last thing, never ignore the pain.  It means that your body needs to recover and heal.  I used to just "walk off" most of my injuries, including pulled muscles in my back.  I ended up doing a lot of damage to my body and I can't run anymore.  I'm only 23 and was a competative sprinter for 6 years.  I cant even take a lesurly jog anymore.  Not to feak you out, but take care of yourself!
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Much sympathy. I ruptured a disk doing Akido when I was 21. The doctors gave me exercises to do and told me to take ibuprofen. There's surgery that can "repair" the damage, so to speak, but at the loss of a certain amount of flexibility (they have to "fuse" the two vertabrae together), but they are somewhat reluctant to do it. Been putting up with the pain now for 29 years.\n\nOnly advice I can give is, if you really want to have the surgery raise bloody hell about it... switch doctors if the one you have won't do it. It's the only way to get results. Pain will be gone but you might not be able to touch your toes.
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Find another doctor.\n\nI had a friend who broke his tailbone in his teens.  When he was in his late 20's he ended up having a surgery to fix it because it was causing him pain.\n\nIt is your health, not your docs.  Find another doctor that takes your concerns seriously.
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Go see an orthopedist. You probably broke your tail bone. If not, the bruise was so big it caused some calcification. An orthopedist can help you.
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"don't THINK it was broken" Get it looked at by someone who can help know for sure and make sure everything else is OK- minor medical clinic, school nurse, ER, whatever.\n\nMost minor crush injuries (no bone damage, minimal tissue damage) can be dealt with with asprain or other pain reliever, a basic ice program (a few minutes on, longer time off to 'rest', a few minutes on...) to relieve pain and swelling, and not using the injured part.\n\nThe catch to this is that there certainly may be some other issues involved that should be looked at. Do a doctor visit soon and avoid furture problems.
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Ice, ibuprofin and rest. Nothing else you can do. You might want to wrap it also just for the stability.
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Doctors give you the run around I know and they really don't know how to treat it.  the truth is, one needs to add up all the traumas in their life, their injuries, emotional traumas, birth etc. if an injusry occurrs and the body has not had proper therapy or eliminated all the trauma then the body and brain continues to send signals to the area surrounding the old injury to protect it.  When the protective devices occur spasms occur...such as an old spinal injusry or a tailbone injury.  The brain and body does not know that the trauma is over so it continues to protect the area.  As a consequence there is fluid or static tension that holds in and traps toxins.  It is the toxins that your body holds in that causes the pain.  For example...people often think of what they see on their inner thigh or outer hips as sellulite.  If you go in deep with heat and massage this acutally breaks it down so it cannot be cellulite it has to be sluggish or dead white blood cells that have been trapped.  Try ddeplyu massaging your calves in a hot bath, splitting the gastrocnemius apart and digging in, massage toward the knee keeping a strong grip and staying deep between the muscle.  You should feel a squishy type of felling and that is all those toxins being moved.  By the time we are in deep total pain, we are full of toxins.  I had a broken back, 3 ceasareans and years of anitbiotics treatmenet as a child.  Therefore i had a lot of txic buildup that cuased me unable to move in the morning.    I trained in Canada in myofascial release, ddep tissue massage and as a nutritionist.  I subsequently, witht he aid of a chiropractic began treating myself.  My body kept spasming bACK TO PROTECT THE OLD INJUSRIES.  i DECIDED i NEEDED TO DETOS AND WITH HERBAL REMEDIES iAND HOEMOPATHIC REMEDIES BEGAN. wHILE THAT HELPED THE PAIN IN MY LEGS IT DID NOT KEEP THE CIRCULATION GOING ALL DAY.  I SUBSEQUENTLY BOUGHT AN INFRA RED sAUNA WHIch provides deep heat into the muscle and stimulates the toxins to move.  Talk about a lot of poops!  The infrared aids your body to relax and circulation to occur.  When this happns, the new red blood cells can move in, oxygenate the old injury, move out all the old gunk and help you heal.  Once really needs to se a chirocpractor or massage therapist to move the joints that have been displace because of the different tensions caused by the toxins though right after a heat treatmenet and at least once a week until you can move them yourself.  This goes on and on...i can tell you more if you want to email me at lgsparrow@hotmail.com.  I want to tell you that the healing soes not take place over night.  I still need to deal with the old injusires, have my neck and lower back put into place (stress causes it to go out again) and exercise. Fybromyalgia is a catch 22 illness...your body needs the exercise but you can't do it because your locked up in pain.  i will tell you my sauna was my life saver..i don't get those blow off headaches and do not need pain killers and muscle relzxants any more.  ps  just read one of your replies...do not let people tell you that it is depression...that is the doctor's first answer ...the depression occurs because we've been in pain for so long...not only is your obdy full of toxins but the blodd supply to the brain as well....antidepressants aren't the answer...cleaning your system out and letting the body know it CAN heal now is the answer
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It could be anything really. Your posture. A trapped nerve. A damaged disc. \n\nHave you tried sleeping with lots of cushions to support your legs?  eg making sure you are totally relaxed and supporting any areas that feel not so comfortable? A small cushion in the base of your neck? A couple under your knees to make sure your knees dont lock in the night putting prerssure on your spine?\n\nExperiment with it and see what works.  My friend props herself on her side in the recovery position and places a cushion behind her back so she doesnt roll over, and one inbetween her knees as she doesnt like the feeling of bone on bone. Her back pain has been tons better jsut lately due to this.
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Soak in a warm bath with epsom salts also take some tylenol or other OTC pain reliever. Go easier on yourself next time. Don't know of anything you can eat but keep drinking fluids(especially water to rehydrate)
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I had back surgery a number of years back for a ruptured disc in my lower back.  The first thing I can tell you is, if you are having a problem with a disc, stop going to the chiropractor, that will only make the situation worse.  The second thing you should do is go see your regular physician and request that he refer you out for an MRI.  An x-ray will not help, as you can not see soft tissue damage on an x-ray, so an MRI is your only option for determining if indeed you have damage to a disc in your lower back. As for self help, sleep on your back with a pillow under your knees and take ibuprofen on a regular basis for a few days. I feel your pain.  Good luck!
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There are several things you can try.\n\nAnti-inflammatory medications like Ibuprofen or Naproxen may be helpful, taken with food.\n\nFill an empty soda bottle with water and freeze.  With a sock on, roll your heel over the ice bottle for 10-15 minutes, 3-4 times a day.\n\nNEVER go barefoot!  NOt even to the bathroom in the middle of the night.  Always have good supportive shoes on.\n\nStretching your calf muscle may help, particularly if you have a tight achilles to begin with.  Face a wall, and place your plans on it.  With the affected leg further behind you, lean into the wall, keeping your back leg straight and the heel on the floor.  Then stretch with your knee slightly bent.\n\nIf these methods don't work, see your health care provider.  A stronger anti-inflammatory medicine may be prescribed, he or she may evaluate you for orthotics, or supports that go into your shoes.  Physical therapy may be helpful, and some people even have a cortisone injection into the heel.
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I suffered from this years ago when I started my first year of marching band.  Make fun if you want, but marching band is hard work.  You do so much walking, and not normal walking either.  They taught us what they called the roll-step, which reduces the bounce in your walk, and involves pointing your toe way up in the air as you start your stride, thus stretching the calf muscle.  This was my first year of doing this, and doing it repeatedly for a few days caused me so much pain on the front of my right calf muscle that they put me on crutches the rest of the week.  After the worst of it healed, I would from the on wrap my leg from the bottom of my knee to the ankle with an ace bandage to try and support my calf and keep everthing "tight" while marching.  It still bugs me to this day if I do anything to strenuous, especially on hard surfaces, with that leg.  I was also suggested a little exercise which helps also with sore ankles.  Pretend your toe is the tip of a pen, and write the alphabet in cursive in the air with your toe.  Sound silly, but try it.