| Coccyx Pain and My Doctor's Appt Posted: 18 Sep 2009 04:32 AM PDT I have my doctor's appt today. The only good thing about that is that I get to tell her about my tailbone pain and finally find out what's going on with it! As for the diabetes, I'm not thrilled about what my numbers will say. It's been a hard 3 months. The last time I was there, I was told that I wasn't eating enough carbs and that I HAD to learn to incorporate more of them into my diet. Well, I did and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
I kept it up over the 3 months to give my body a chance to get used to them again, but to be honest, I feel MUCH better when the carbs are limited to one meal a day! Because of the increased carbs, (and the feeling after eating them) my exercise dropped off. So there is no telling what the numbers will say this morning, but that's ok.
A few days ago, I started my LOW, LOW carb "diet" again and I feel better. I'm going to up the exercise again and put things right! The nutritionist I saw last month said that I am "carb sensitive" and that's why I feel so bad when I eat most of them.
Has anyone ever had Coccydynia, (tailbone pain)? This is what I pulled off of the web:
- Pain during or after sitting, the level of pain depending on how long you sit. This is the main problem caused by coccydynia. How painful it is also depends on the design of the chair and the padding. The increased pain and sensitivity caused by having to sit for a long period may continue for days afterwards.
 - Acute pain while moving from sitting to standing. This symptom is particularly interesting, as Dr Maigne found that all of the patients he tested who had this particular symptom had a coccyx that partially dislocated or moved abnormally when the patient sat down. This was reported in the medical paper, Treatment strategies for coccydynia. Note - Sally Cowell wrote: To avoid this pain, try sitting leaning forward a bit and hollow your back a lot. This got rid of pain going from sitting to standing for me.
- Pain caused by sitting on a soft, but not a hard surface. As I understand it, this is usually happens when the joint between the sacrum and coccyx is unstable, so that the coccyx can be pushed out of place when you put pressure on it by sitting or lying. When you sit on a hard surface, most of your weight is taken on your 'sit-bones' (ischial tuberosities), the hard bits at the bottom of your pelvis. But when you sit on a soft surface, the foam rubber pushes up between the bones, increasing the pressure inside you and pushing the coccyx out of place.~~~~~http://www.coccyx.org
It started mildly, but now it's getting worse. We'll see what the doc said. I refuse to let her minimize the importance of this. It affects me every time I sit down!! Something needs to be done!
Well, I'm off!
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