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

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  • laserturkey
    laserturkey Posts: 1,680 Member
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    For the underarm thing, maybe consider Nair or some similar product? Waxing that area is not for the faint of heart.
  • darwinwoodka
    darwinwoodka Posts: 322 Member
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    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.
  • lotusspark
    lotusspark Posts: 367
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    Idk about your
    shaving issue .. no chest hair. lol

    I don't have chest hair! Yikes.

    I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood. Idk where
    I got that. :/
  • poohpoohpeapod
    poohpoohpeapod Posts: 776 Member
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    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.
  • CristinaL1983
    CristinaL1983 Posts: 1,119 Member
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    I actually just took my shirt off to examine my armpit. If I just raise my arm enough so that the back of my hand meets my forehead, my armpit is concave. When I shave, I've always put my arm behind my head so that my hand basically touches the back of the opposite shoulder this flattens out the pit and I can feel the muscle when I press on my armpit. Not sure if this would work for you.

    As for the tailbone thing, not sure I can help much with that, I get pain on my butt bones if I don't sit well but when I maintain good posture, I don't have pain. I do carry most of my weight in my lower body so that could be mitigating the problem.
  • schaskes
    schaskes Posts: 103 Member
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    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.
  • Mcgrawhaha
    Mcgrawhaha Posts: 1,596 Member
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    i have the same issue... it feels as though my tailbone is actually resting on the surface where im sitting. it bothers me most in the bath tub.
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
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    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.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
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    I've always found armpit shaving to be difficult. The only solution I have found was to buy the smallest sized razor I could find (a Gillette sensor is what I think it's called), and I would prefer if it was even smaller. Most of them are too big and bulky and I can't fit them into my armpit, the razor spans the whole distance across and won't fit into the armpit space.
  • DawnEH612
    DawnEH612 Posts: 574 Member
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    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!
  • AmberleyAngel
    AmberleyAngel Posts: 160 Member
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    Thank you for posting this topic. I've jad crazy pain in my tailbone for the last several weeks. I just thought it was me as I had broken it years ago (like 1992ish) and thought it must be the way I was sleeping (I have to sleep half sitting up). I never thought to connect it to the 62 kilos of padding I've lost.

    Thanks for shining a light on this embarrassing-to-talk-about issue.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
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    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.
  • SugarNtheRaw
    SugarNtheRaw Posts: 191 Member
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    As far as the tail bone, mine is more sensitive now, because there's not a huge pad of fat covering it, but otherwise not that bad! Armpits, though? I wax those *****es. Takes care of 6-8 weeks, and it's cheap & easy to do at home. I do recommend this video http://youtu.be/i6YOizhTDLw You can get wax at wally world :) good luck, dear!
  • victoriavoodoo
    victoriavoodoo Posts: 343 Member
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    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.
  • nobleammonite
    nobleammonite Posts: 64 Member
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    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. ...

    Oh man, this! Except my tailbone/lower spine always hurt me on hard surfaces, even at my highest weight (but I've only ever been at most 40 lbs overweight). I work out at home on wood floors, and an exercise mat is NOT enough to keep me from serious pain when I do crunches or whatever. I use a blanket plus the mat, and even that isn't soft enough sometimes. Also now that I have more pronounced hipbones, I swear my jeans give me bruises!

    As far as shaving, I do like someone else mentioned and kind of "pull" the skin so it's flat. Awkward, but gets the job done.
  • AuntieKT
    AuntieKT Posts: 235 Member
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    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!
  • AuntieKT
    AuntieKT Posts: 235 Member
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    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.

    What kind of dance are you doing? :huh: LOL!
  • bodyrollin
    bodyrollin Posts: 215 Member
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    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...
  • Lupercalia
    Lupercalia Posts: 1,857 Member
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    My husband lost about 40 lbs and has had that exact issue with his tailbone that you described. He's seeing specialists and everything, as he's in a great deal of pain. Last week he had a cortisone shot which seems to have helped diffuse the pain a bit, and he's walking and sitting better now, but I'm not really sure what the answer is.

    I suggested he use a cushion, but he insisted it wouldn't help.

    I don't understand your armpit/shaving trouble, sorry.

    Hope you feel better soon...
  • GiddyNZ
    GiddyNZ Posts: 136 Member
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    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..

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