How do you treat a bruised or broken tailbone?!


Question: How do you treat a bruised or broken tailbone?
2 weeks ago i went snow tubing and i jumped into the tube and my butt hit the ground hard. The next day my tailbone started to hurt when i walked or sat. It has been hurting ever since. It hurts when i sit and lean back, and when i get up it will hurt for about 2-3 more minutes. It is also just sore all the time in general. I haven't iced it yet, but i have been taking Alieve. Did i break it or just bruise it? it doesn't hurt when i go to the bathroom. Do i need to have a doctor look at it? i don't really want to go to the doctor, so anything i can do at home would be appreciated!

Answers:

To my surprise, doctors don't do much about it, even when it's broken, if you can function. (Mine was broken.) "Function" doesn't mean live free of pain, it means walk around, use the toilet, be able to bathe and dress yourself, go to work or school, like that.

They advise OTC pain medication, heat if it helps (ice only helps in the first day or two), and watching where you sit, avoiding hard surfaces. A doughnut may help if sitting hurts. I got real good at sitting backward on hard chairs, so my butt wasn't on the chair at all, like some teenagers sit. Like you, I could sit, but getting up took an act of courage.

This is an injury which heals slowly; I was six months in, and still in pain, before my doctor agreed it was time to do something more. I got two cortisone shots--that was fun! (not)--and it healed within the next six weeks or so. Never bothered me again.



They cant do anything - a girl in my class bruised hers so badly she had to in an ambulance on a spinal board and they couldnt do anything for her. These things take time



I bruised mine bad once. Donut pads help take the pressure off of you tailbone when you sit down.

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