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Jacki - minimiata49@yahoo.com
Posted 2008-02-03
I've been dealing with tailbone pain for almost three years, since March of 2005. At first the pain was very sporadic and intermittent, but as time went on, the amount of time I experienced the pain to the severity of the pain has increased dramatically. There was no trauma to the coccyx/sacrum area at that time.
I first started to get this checked out in June of 2007. I went to a colorectal specialist, as I thought I had a pilonidal cyst in my pilonidal sinus at the top of my buttcrack. Upon investigating, the doctor said no cyst, so I was back at square one.
In September, I began the process of figuring out the proper pathways to treatment, starting with the referral from the PCP for the orthopedic, to a much-needed appointment with the orthopedic this upcoming week. My PCP sent me for an x-ray to rule out any breakages (duh, I knew if it had been broken, it'd be healed by now). I remember my PCP looking at me like I had six heads when I told him about the pain.
Well, with the orthopedic, in the first visit, he sent me to go to physical therapy. I did not go because my finances simply could not handle that much money per month for something that I know won't work. He also sent me for an MRI, which I did not do, simply because I knew it'd be another waste of time and effort. On his referral for the MRI, he had written "bony lesion", which leads me to believe he felt something with a physical exam.
From September to now, my condition has deteriorated to the point where the pain is completely constant when I sit, and now, I'm even having pain while walking. I spend my nights up crying because of the pain. One of the worst parts of this condition is the way doctors think you're out of your mind with this pain. I am so worried that the orthopedic specialist will not perform cortisone injections, but I simply cannot continue living in this constant pain. Any thoughts or comments from other people's experiences would be wonderful. Thanks
-Jacki