I've grown a tail, and other weight-loss Issues

I would RUN to go buy your book with this title! lol - Love it Especially since I have noticed the same thing!

I have to admit, I'm happy to hear that someone else is having the same problem. About 5 years ago, I lost 75 lbs and began having this problem. My doctor sent me to a general surgeon who examined me and said that my tailbone was normal and that I had just "lost my cushion". Unfortunately, I gained my weight back. The problem went away. I have recently lost 80 lbs and the problem has returned. I have never heard of anyone else having this issue. Nice to know I'm not the only one.

Same with me. It hurt to sit in a bath. I'd sure take that pain again!

I've always had sticky-outy bones, and they do get painful if I sit down for too long. It is quite annoying, I always have trouble on the wrong sort of chair -_-

Sorry, I don't get the tailbone thing, but maybe it's time for some squats? If you don't have sufficient padding from fat, add some muscle...

ETA: Sorry, I see now that this was already mentioned. Maybe if you're having back issues and feel uncomfortable with weighted back squats, try goblet squats.

I would say add some ab work to make sure you're able to support yourself sitting up straighter. That whole leaning back thing isn't so good for your spine.

I have a bony tailbone as well. I was on the floor at the gym and felt my butt bones digging in. I know exactly ewhat you mean. Maybe people with larger butts have no idea. I wish I had more padding in the butt dept.

Yes!!!!!!! I have the same issue on long trips in my odyssey. Not often an issue in other seats, but occasionally! I so thought it was my own weird thing.

For armpits, try doing different angles. When I shave mine I can go straight up, but when I go down I do it on an angle (kind of front to back), as I always nearly nicked myself going straight down.

I totally get this! My tailbone hurts when clothes bunch up there, when i sit on a harder surface, when i do abs on the floor at the gym (i now need two mats). I am now also noticing that each "check" bone is also more pronounced and hurts when i sit on the floor or hard surface. I think its because i used to have so much cushioning back there and now i dont have what i am used to.

And the arm pit thing, i didn't know what was going on (until i saw another post about it on MFP) as i never had a problem shaving before but now that i lost the fat under my arm, i truly have a deep "pit" and i cant get my razor in there. I am now going through laser hair removal under my arms, began it this week. OUCH, but i am sure it will be worth it in the end.... (I got a great deal through Groupon in my area!) i am now also noticing my knees are boney and hurt when i lie in the fetal position in bed. I need to use a pillow between my legs and my hip bones also hurt as no more fat to cushion them. This past winter i was nonstop cold, and that sucked. Even when it was "warmer" i was still chilled! Of course, there were plenty of annoyances when i s fat, too... So... I have to take the bad with the good... Heres to growing tails!

i am now also noticing my knees are boney and hurt when i lie in the fetal position in bed. I need to use a pillow between my legs

Me too! And when I dance I wear soft and flexible knee pads (unless the floor is padded).

I only notice bone issues when I am dancing, in some positions my tail bone will hurt on the floor (usually when it's something knew and perhaps I don't have proper form yet). Other bones only hurt when someone is rolling over top of me (maybe they are not carrying their weight correctly), while I am on the hard floor. Sometimes I get bruises.

Don't know if this was addressed yet but do lots of research first if you're serious about laser hair removal! I purchased a deal from a local place to get laser hair removal for my underarms and the first time I came in AFTER paying they straight up told me, "Because you are very fair and your underarm hair is also very fair(i'm blonde naturally) this might not work well. The laser does better when skin contrasts against hair."

I had 5 sessions and it hurt like a ***** and did NOTHING. I don't know if the devices you can buy for a few hundred bucks work differently but worth looking into before you put pain and money into it.

I haven't read all of the reply's but in response to the original question, I know what you mean on the tailbone thing. I too am nowhere near "thin" and I feel like my tailbone kind of sticks out and makes it hard to sit sometimes too. I can actually feel where it ends back there without much difficulty. I think that maybe the rest of the fat that I have back there is less dense than before or something and when sitting the rest of my weight just pushes those bones right into the seat. I do a ton of les/squat work and haven't really found that the tailbone issue is getting any better, but truth be told it doesn't really bother me a whole lot. In fact, it even makes me feel "skinny" sometimes, LOL!

Ha, I've had the opposite experience: the more I work out, the more developed my glutes get, the rounder my butt is, and the less it hurts to sit for long periods of time. I have rock-hard protection now where I used to just have thin, flat, flab :laugh:

The armpits though I can't help you with... mine have never been particularly rounded. Just shave slowly, I guess.

This...gain butt muscle...

Perhaps go and see a chiropractor, if you got a back injury during pregnancy then it would be good for you to have your back adjusted regularly.. I had a motor bike accident about 13 years ago which caused my back all sorts of grief for years, then I started going to the Chiro a couple of years ago and it has worked wonders.. I had 8 vertebrae out of place.. including what my Chiro called a ski jump butt.. lol..