Tailbone pain after weight loss..

Hey I know what you are talking about. I was at my lowest weight in March in 28 years. It acutally hurt to sit on the wood chairs in the kitchen. I've put about 10 pounds on now and it doesn't hurt quite as bad well it does hurt putting on the 10 pounds but it's not in the butt . :sad: It was so bad I had the Doc do an xray but it was neg so I was good. She wanted to do an MRI but since it wasn't broken I wasn't going mess with it. I have the recumbant bike and I have to be careful how I have the seat set on it. If I am reclining to much it hurts pretty bad. I got one of those cushions that's made for this. Has the cut out on the back side of the cushion. It helps some. Hope you can figure what will work for you. If you ride a bike get some riders shorts. I have them for my real bike. Haven't ridden much this summer but it did help last year.

I only get it when I am in the tub and my knees also hurt when sleeping on my side since it's bone on bone, I thinks its due to the fact that the fat cushion is gone. I don't think there is a "cure".

Thin people I've asked have this same problem and always have, I think it's just new to us and we have to get used to it.

Have any of you had tailbone pain since losing weight? What I'm looking for is people who have experienced this and were able to relieve it and what they did to to achieve that.

The more I research it, the more I think it's from losing 40+ lbs and the cushion of fat that protected it.

If you've had this problem how did you help yourself? I've already tried various cushions, sitting on the edge of my chair, pain pills, not sitting on it at all, etc. The only thing that brings relief is to lie on my side! At this point it even hurts to walk and I cannot just sit around here.

I do have an mri scheduled and an appt with a pain clinic but I'm looking for any help I can get until then.

Would building up my butt muscles help with this? I don't think I could do squats but maybe a nautilus machine that you lie down on at a health club would help, I don't know!

Thank you in advance!

Stretch really well in that area, it should make it go away after a while. I got it badly when I started running and stretching cured it. It hurt so bad I almost couldn't drive.

Is it possible you bruised your tailbone working out? A bruised tailbone is EXTREMELY painful and takes a lot of time to heal from. It could also be a pilonidal cyst, try to check and see if it is warm and inflamed around the tailbone area. If it is, see a doctor right away!

If it is a bruised tailbone, there is not much you can do except ice and rest, lay on your side as much as possible and you can buy a special pillow to sit on a the drug store to relieve pressure

Good luck.

Yes! I had this problem.


It gradually got better - I think it was all the squats I've been doing.

That was just the actual "tailbone" BONE pain. I also have sciatica but that's a separate story.

I feel that too, but I don't know why. It is uncomfortable when I try doing crunches.

UGH! I tried to google this and I don't know what the issue is. Every time I sit for too long or try to do crunches without a massive amount of padding beneath me, my tailbone KILLS.

Sigh.

I started having tailbone pain after losing 85 pounds. I have a sit down job and couldn't take the pain anymore and finally ended up in a surgeon's office. Diagnosed with small pilonidal cyst so he said would do surgery for the cyst and than "shave" my tailbone if it was needed. The cyst ended up being nothing but my tailbone, instead of being curved, jutted out in the opposite direction it was supposed to be going, thus excruciating pain. He actually cut the end of my tailbone off. After that it took about six months for the pain to be totally gone, very slow healing process. I can now sit in comfort and actually rode my bike all summer/fall without any difficulty. I never had an MRI, just went right to surgery because they saw a cyst on x-rays, but I wonder if an MRI would show any abnormality of the tailbone. I can relate to all of you who have this pain. It's not fun and I hope you find relief.

I injured my tailbone as a child flying out a swing backwards and landied on my bottom. I have tailbone pain all the time and can't do some yoga positions. I tried padded cyclist shorts but the padding does not go high enough I am considering making my own.

Inflatable donut cushion, like the one they recommend for pregnant women. Ice, ice, ice. Some heat. I don't do heat but ice everything all the time. Good luck.

I know this is an older post but I just found it now and I have a similar issue.

I just lost 42lbs in 6 months and whenever I sit down in my car, on the sofa, in the chair Im in now typing this, I can feel my tailbone. It doesnt hurt, just feels funky.... I imagine it will take longer to "rebuild" my body & build some muscle. I never worked out before during my weight loss until after I dropped under 180, Im 168 now. I guess had I worked out along with the weight loss maybe I wouldnt be feeling my tailbone so much...

I know this is an older post but I just found it now and I have a similar issue.

I just lost 42lbs in 6 months and whenever I sit down in my car, on the sofa, in the chair Im in now typing this, I can feel my tailbone. It doesnt hurt, just feels funky.... I imagine it will take longer to "rebuild" my body & build some muscle. I never worked out before during my weight loss until after I dropped under 180, Im 168 now. I guess had I worked out along with the weight loss maybe I wouldnt be feeling my tailbone so much...

Nope. I started a workout regimen at the beginning and am more muscular than I've ever been and still have the problem. It's loss of the fat pad.

This can be a totally unrelated coincidence. Fat people and thin people can experience this. Either you have a cyst or you don't. You can have them your entire life with no problems or they can become inflamed and cause an abscess which requires surgery.

If you have tailbone pain and press at the tip of the tailbone and this is where your pain is, especially after significant weight loss, it's probably not related the pilonidal cyst, which you may or may not have.

i haven't lost much weight post my 4 month course on decdak steroids along with the intense 6 week radiotherapy to treat my tumors and help the facial palsy resultant of the one in my ear and neck. But i did manage to come down from62 kg to 54 and gained much of muscle and bone power in the last 6 months...

In June i went through the radiotherapy with a dose of excessive steroids to salvage my face, and my bones refused to support my weight while going up and down the stairs or even walking..

Now i am sure 62 kg don't sound much but being a dancer all my life.. it was a weight very hard for me to manage.. especially with the weakening bones underneath, and then i spent the best 5000 bucks of my life.. i mean Rs. 5000/-. I bought i bicycle.. plain and simple no gears no shockers.. Just like the one in used to ride when i was a child.. cause in the good old days.. there was not much of an option, here in this country. I would like to mention that i am 28 just for the reference.

So in the last 6 months i lost 8 kg, the hardest weight loss in my life. I would like to mention, i one went down from 56 to 38, but i was young and had the strength to do it all back when i was 20.But this time it wasn't just the weight loss, i came from barely climbing the stairs to riding my bicycle all up and swingy for an hour at least 5 days a week. Naturally, the tailbone had to hit me..

Well being a dancer i haven't really had a very strong tailbone since i have always tried to defy the limitations it set me too.. but loosing weight sure does **** things up. Mostly because of the muscles around the tailbone. If you have a fat lump around the tailbone, it would cushion it.. but not all slim people have issues with their tailbones.

It is so because the muscles around the tailbone need to be strong and developed. When you are fat that is not possible, and while you loose the extra fat around your tailbone, it takes time for the left over muscles to get strong enough to support the tailbone without the fatty cushion we are so used too.

So give it time, and if you are young, don't give up on your exercise because of it. The more persistent you are, the better your situation will be with time and the healthier it is for you. If you are old, i would suggest, relax a bit and cut on your diet to not gain back the extra fat around it. That's the worst punishment.

Having the same issue. Pain both at the base of my spine around the tailbone and near my pelvis beneath my bottom. If I'm not the only one, then that's got to be it. I haven't changed anything else (as if changing your entire lifestyle to lose 150+ lbs is no big deal, right?). Posture change helps me temporarily, and I'm hoping to get the mild muscle swelling, etc., to go down using NSAIDs and the like. My couch is too low, and I can't just "sit back and relax" anymore. I have to sit up straight, which usually means a pillow under my butt and another behind my back. Keeps me temporarily in line, at least. I use a donut pillow at work, but I don't sit right on it: I sit forward on my chair and let my tailbone hang over the back of the cushion without touching anything. It takes the pressure off and helps the swelling to subside. In this way I hope to heal - and I know it takes time. I guess this is why the skinny people are never comfortable sitting still for lengthy periods of time and always have to get up and move around.