I cannot get an xray because I'm pregnant. I fell last night and injured my tailbone. I cannot lay on my back without support and even then, its excruciating to move. I can't bend over without feeling imense pain. On a more personal note, it's even painful to let out a fart. Do you think I've broken my tailbone?
2007-11-10 15:19:46 · 12 answers · asked by Abby C 5 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
I can't stand when people say that if something is broken you wouldn't be able to walk (untrue). You very well may have broken it, but unfortunately they don't do anything for a broken coccyx anyway. X-rays of this area are usually quite difficult to see anyway - it is such a small bone and it usually obscured by stool.
Taking it easy is about all you can do, but talk to your doctor about it.
2007-11-11 01:32:26 · answer #1 · answered by RadTech - BAS RT(R)(ARRT) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt she did that to you yet there are muscle groups alongside that section that could harm like heck while they are in discomfort and what she did to you've got placed them into discomfort. to get rid of that discomfort you may unlock the muscle groups around your tailbone and right this is a thank you to do this: decrease back, Lumbar: at an identical time as sitting place your hands in the back of your physique basically above the buttocks and press in on the muscle groups next to the backbone and carry. After 30 seconds slowly decrease your self forward as far as you could. Then launch the stress yet carry your physique there for yet another 30 seconds. pass some inches down and do it back and shop repeating till you attain the tip of your tailbone. For superb consequences relax your physique first by employing taking a deep breath and exhaling then proceed to be this unstressed.
2016-10-16 02:14:06 · answer #2 · answered by benedick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
X-rays aren't that good at diagnosing the things anyway. The best way to diagnose (you'll love this) is a rectal exam, so the examiner can get it between the thumb and index finger. Both fractures and sacrococcygeal sprains are pretty common, and the treatment is usually the same, so a precise diagnosis is probably not that important.
2007-11-10 15:38:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to your doctor and get a xray is the only sure way
2007-11-10 16:05:47 · answer #4 · answered by George 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have I Broken My Coccyx
2016-10-16 09:58:00 · answer #5 · answered by yousef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~there is a good possibility that u have done some damage to your tailbone. speak w/your dr on monday. they can do ultrasound and view it.
2007-11-10 15:22:53 · answer #6 · answered by evanlah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is cracked and i would just sit on a pillow or something very soft and try to ice it
2007-11-10 15:27:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like the pain is really bad. I think you should go to an ER, get an exam, and ask your questions there.
2007-11-10 15:23:43 · answer #8 · answered by _I_love_warm_bananas_ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if u broke ur tailbone u would not be able to walk.. i have bruised mine before and the pain is terrible but bearable. alot of ice and rest is all i can advise.
2007-11-10 15:24:09 · answer #9 · answered by b dog 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
yes u have done really bad damage to ur tailbone stay home ice it and be careful wat u do.
2007-11-10 15:28:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋