Immense pain, would not wish this on anyone, not joking. Slipped down some non-carpeted steps, fracture, can stand fine but cannot sit. Worst pain on the planet. Sleep ok, but cannot sit. FML.
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Immense pain, would not wish this on anyone, not joking. Slipped down some non-carpeted steps, fracture, can stand fine but cannot sit. Worst pain on the planet. Sleep ok, but cannot sit. FML.
may it pass quickly.
Sorry brother, hope it gets better. That is a bad beat.
Bruised mine once slipping on some black ice like a cartoon character. Smacked elbow and tailbone on frozen street. A bad beat.
How many cocktails deep were you when this occurred?
Would have been a better story but no. Just got back from the Doc, nothing they can do. Refused pain meds, just going to tough it out. Going to be a miserable month. Just canceled our Thanksgiving trip. The thought of being in a car for four hours, vibrating, cannot do. Prayers are welcome, this fucking sucks.
good decision rejecting the pain meds just don’t take the easy way out using your immobility as an excuse to lay around getting hammered
you still owe an explanation for exactly what happened the coccyx just doesn’t suddenly break. you had to have fallen or tripped somehow
Slipped on a step with socks on, second from the bottom. Landed right on the tailbone, no time to brace. A fracture. Deep bruise from lower back to the upper thigh. Funny thing is I can stand fine, I just can't sit without immense pain getting up and down. Tried to drive a minute ago YEAH NO THANKS.
Yeah this is going to be a horrible month. They offered me Percocets, or whatever they are called. I said I have battled alcohol my whole life, not getting anywhere near that. Won't be drinking for at least a month, I simply cannot get up after seated without assistance to take a piss. I'm not even eating, afraid to take a shit. This is the worst. But refusing the pain meds no matter how tempting. Feel bad I made some fun of UGAISTHETEAM. Karma is a bitch, first hand.
I don’t mean to be a dick…… lol
Anyways, get some stool softeners, better to be loose than have to strain.
Sit on a heating pad.
That sucks. I’ve known people to get shots directly into that coccyx area, like anesthetic type trigger point injections, but from what I just read, I don’t think it would do much. It appears those are more for degenerative type issues.
You probably wouldn’t want the percs for the reason split mentioned. It would have the opposite effect of a stool softener, which would make for a miserable experience. One of those cushions will probably help at some point, not just likely for a few weeks.
It sucks not to be able to sit, but thankfully you can lay down without discomfort and sleep. I’d just take it easy way and catch up on sleep and get through it.
Yeah, I got about 11 hours of sleep yesterday, which is a ton for me, I am usually 5 to 6 a night. I went to bed last night at 8pm and woke up at 3am, everything is just off. I actually got a cane delivered from Amazon yesterday. Balance purposes, terrified from falling again. I am not a complainer, but the pain is immense. I can see why people take pain medication. I am resisting and staying away, but when you get shooting barbs up your spine you just want it to go away. Fucking worst.
Did that like 20yrs ago. Fell out a damn shower back in 2003 and didnt think much of it. Yeah it hurt, but then when I had a car wreck in 2005 did xrays and they asked hey when did you break your tailbone (apparently it snapped off and was pointing inward at a weird angle and had healed in that position).
Still stinging pain, although getting better. Basically its like a toothache at this point, you just deal with it. I will admit, non stop pain just creates a depressive mindset. I was up at 3am this morning. Then a Wounded Warrior commercial comes on with a soldier with no legs and you basically tell yourself stop being a fucking pussy.
Plunging toilets must be super painful. PRAYERS
While the pain is on the decrease, my sleep patterns are completely fucked up. I know Druff posted on and on about his anxiety issues and how they affected his life. I can relate now. Waking up at 2am fearful of going back to sleep over anxiety of a blood clot given my huge bruise is taking its toll. Then you sit alone in your office pitch dark in pain, it just wears on the psyche. Then I starting going through all the dumb shit I did over the years, how much more money I'd have for my family if I just played it close to the vest, played by the rules. This morning I remembered that stupid fucking oil well I "invested in", turned out to be a scam, lost thousands. Then the stupidity of online poker. Gambling on penny stocks. It's all come to a head with this fucking injury and keeping me up most of the night. I can see why people enter a depressive state, sitting in a dark room for hours in pain is mentally crippling. I know Druff posted during the height of his anxiety he'd pay $500,000 to have his issues go away. I don't have that type of revenue, but I'd write a check for $20,000 in a snap minute if I could make this injury and anxiety just go the fuck away.
I think I broke or fractured my tailbone jumping off that 60 foot rock in havasu on spring break cuz i was too drunk to remember to pencil dive and then my asshole friends made sure to hit every wake possible in the boat brutal time for like 6 weeks
You have 0.0 chance of embolus from the bruise on your ass. Obsess about something else.
Correct, opiates very well could be me in. Not going the Matt Perry route.Not sure which is worse, dying from opiates or the maniac behavior of doctor shopping. It gets so bad for addicts they actually go to real estate open houses looking in bathrooms for pills.
Find a homeopathic doc.
Mainstream medicine is shit.
Thanks Jerry, I have been feeling better, no tailbone issues to mention but it was a rough go. But I no longer have a residual pain. But you know what Jerry, cracking your tailbone was a miserable experience, but I had a neighbor break his elbow the other day. He is in pretty rough shape. I am just glad I can post on a forum where free speech is celebrated versus a bunch of paranoid politicians that are banning Tik Tok. Thanks again Jerry, please me know how are things are going.