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tailbone?
about 9 weeks ago, my horse bucked me off. and since then, my tailbone still hurts, i cant recall if i actually landed on it, but i might of bruised it/cracked it. I didnt notice that it hurt so badly until i went back to school, which was about 1 or 2 weeks later. And it still hurts, I try to exercsise to lose weight and some of the exercises are ones where you sit back on your tailbone, and they hurt. My mom wont take me to a doctor or get my back xrayed. She says it wont do any good. And I continue to ride horses now, like 3 or 4 days a week. So are there any exercises or therpy exercises that i can do for my low back and tailbone? My mom wont take me to a chiropractor either, obviously. So for MY benefit, I would like to get my back better =]
Thanks!
15/f
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Hey hun! I did the same thing to my tailbone 2 times, so I know how that is. My mom has also fractured her tailbone before. I didn't go to the doctor for it, but my mom did, and they couldn't even do anything for it. They told her that was something that just had to heal on it's own. If you search fractured tailbone on google or something, it tells you all about it.
It hurt really bad when I would cough, sneeze, lift heavy things, or even sit down. My dad went out to Rite-aid, and he bought me one of those donut pillows to use. It really helped when I tried to sit down at the dinner table, or when I wanted to sit on the couch watching tv. When you get up from sitting down just be really careful with how you get up, so you don't hurt yourself even more.
You can go to the doctor for it, and they'll probably give you something for the pain, but besides that you have to let it heal on its own. Mine is healed now for the most part. It only hurts when I sit down for long periods of time, in a certain way. I still have my donut pillow, and I still sleep with it sometimes! It's extremely comfy :)
I hope you feel better!
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You could have fractured your tail bone, but the only way to know for certain is with an x-ray. The good it will do going to the doctor is, you can get some appropiate pain medication and he can tell you what activies you should limit to allow the area to heal. Actually at this point exercise may make it worse and certainly riding horses won't help. So insist to your Mom that you need to see a doctor. If she still won't take you talk to the school nurse, maybe he/she can write a note.
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The only way to make it better is to see a doctor. You need to tell her that if it doesnt get fixed it will always bother you.
Do you have a bump or bubble by your tail bone? if so, you could have a pilonidal cyst. I had one of those about 6 months ago. Let me know if that is the case and i will explain more, and if not then you need to ask your mom to take you to the doctor because only the doctor will know what to do best.
Goood luck!
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