Painkilling patches to treat coccyx pain

If you use painkilling patches to help with coccyx pain, you need to be careful not to use them to mask the pain, sit longer, and aggravate the cause of the pain.

People have reported the use of three types of patch to help with coccyx pain. The patch is placed over the coccyx, and releases a drug into the skin.

• Lidoderm patches, which contain the local anesthetic lignocaine, which is slowly released to give local relief of pain. Several people have had these patches, and report varying levels of pain relief. See Treatment of coccydynia with a 5% lidocaine patch: a case report
• Duragesic patches, which contain the opiod drug Fentanyl, which is slowly released to give both local and general pain relief
• Cortisone patches, which contain an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid drug.

Personal experiences of painkilling patches:

2000-12-16 - Gogooky - Lidocaine patches for pain relief

2001-12-19 - Kim and Alan - Kim is facing surgery

2002-05-05 - M O'Brien - Any link between coccyx injuries and IBS?

2003-01-12 - Gogeomol - Fell over the cat

2001-08-05 - Nancy - Tried everything but still in pain

2003-09-07 - Donna - Update - I've fallen and I can't get up!

2003-10-19 - Karen - Had coccygectomy after other treatments failed

2004-11-07 - Alan Palmer - Pain in the backside cured

2004-03-28 - Bruce Ashmore - Pain patches don't work so well any more - any doctors around Chicago?

Updated 2005-04-03