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I have a large tailbone, have any info?
I wasn't really sure which topic area this would be under... I have a oversized tailbone that sticks out. I'm 18 now and I've had this problem my life.. it bothers me a lot. It doesn't hurt or anything but it is very irritating. I tried to look this up on the internet but couldn't find anyone with the same problem. It seems like I'm the only one that has it. Can someone give me some information about it or tell me if there's anything I can do about it? It's very noticable and I always have to wear a long shirt or a long hoodie to cover it up. Your help would be appreciated :) Thanx
Your tailbone will look bigger if it sticks out more. Sometimes this is a sign your really skinny. Or you having really damaged it yet like the most of us who have fallen on our butts as kids. Or your big boned and it just occurs to you when u feel it. Try no to sit back on it or this can cause spinal problems.
Hi,
I have the exact same issue! Both bumps stick out and ones way bigger. I have actually considered butt implants as well in my sorrow. I was wondering if you have gotten anymore info on this? Also how have you e mailed doctors? It's real interesting the type of feedback you've gotten. Please let me know!
I have the exact same issue! Both bumps stick out and ones way bigger. I have actually considered butt implants as well in my sorrow. I was wondering if you have gotten anymore info on this? Also how have you e mailed doctors? It's real interesting the type of feedback you've gotten. Please let me know!
I too have a prominent tailbone. Never really bothered me up to now (I'm 63) and does'nt bother me now really except I am doing lots of yoga these days and cannot do one particular yoga pose. Never mind, just put lots of padding under the bum and carry on - there are far worse things and, yes, it is a little bit of an unusual feature - stand out from the crowd as it were :o) - never had a problem with intimacy - that might be a larger problem of self esteem generally perhaps?
I have the same problem. I think mine is from falling onto a sharp rock as a child. That was over 40 years ago. I notice it more when I am thinner.
I am 21 and all my life since i can remember i have had a boney butt until one day i realized i had a small peice of extra fat at the end of my tail bone. Its not noticeable when i stand up because my butt muscles are more bigger but since i got into cross fit i feel self conscious thinking people might see my tail bone sticking out. Im hoping just to keep building my butt and legs and back muscles and it might not be so noticeable and stretch lots. It ***** i have a lot of confidence and i feel like i could never be in a relationship because of this fact. Or even join competitions because people with notice it while checking my form. This really gets me down sometimss but ive learned to not be sad for to long about it.
I was just watching embarrassing bodies and thought I'd search for my 'condition' again, I completely forgot I'd found this forum and had left a message on here, 4 years ago now. There has been various comments since I left mine and I'm still shocked at how many of you suffer from the same thing yet there is hardly any information surrounding it.
I just wanted to say although it still bothers me from time to time I've learnt to live with it. I have found that only I really notice it! As for being intimate I've been with my boyfriend for over 3 years now and although I've never properly showed him he is very supportive about it and he always tells me how much he loves my bum, which gives me great confidence!! My advise will be to not let it get you down, yes from time to time you'll probably think about it but only you will really care. If your worried about getting intimate then please don't be, men can be very kind and caring when it comes to sensitive issues like these and if you've found the right guy they should support you through it!!
I hope most of you who have posted on this forum have gone on to live happy confident lives, don't let it bring you down guys!! :)
I just wanted to say although it still bothers me from time to time I've learnt to live with it. I have found that only I really notice it! As for being intimate I've been with my boyfriend for over 3 years now and although I've never properly showed him he is very supportive about it and he always tells me how much he loves my bum, which gives me great confidence!! My advise will be to not let it get you down, yes from time to time you'll probably think about it but only you will really care. If your worried about getting intimate then please don't be, men can be very kind and caring when it comes to sensitive issues like these and if you've found the right guy they should support you through it!!
I hope most of you who have posted on this forum have gone on to live happy confident lives, don't let it bring you down guys!! :)
I'm 41-years-old and have had a protruding tailbone as long as I can remember. I hear everyone talk about how it bothers them, I've certainly had my share. I've never gone to an orthopedic about it, however, I've been to chiropractors, and also tried neuromuscular therapy, which helps a little. Going to such practices can be costly, which is the bind that I'm in now. I'm hoping that I can find some practical exercises that could help. Has anyone come up with some new resources?
i am a 51 year old female, heavier than i used to be...my fat has somewhat obscured the two bony lumps that are right over my but crack,,i can bend over now without them showing through my clothes. i can still see them and feel them but not as much as when i was skinny...i have always been self conscious about my bony lumps and my ex husband literally tormented me about my bony lumps. this forum is the first time i have ever heard of anyone having the same problem. i intend to stay a little overweight because of the extra padding around my bony lumps . it makes them not noticeable in my clothes. I have been teased about them in the past, and i was humiliated. i was never comfortable being intimate except with one partner that i spent 5 years with. he passed away last year and i will always miss him......i have never come to terms with this deformity
i am a 51 year old female, heavier than i used to be...my fat has somewhat obscured the two bony lumps that are right over my but crack,,i can bend over now without them showing through my clothes. i can still see them and feel them but not as much as when i was skinny...i have always been self conscious about my bony lumps and my ex husband literally tormented me about my bony lumps. this forum is the first time i have ever heard of anyone having the same problem. i intend to stay a little overweight because of the extra padding around my bony lumps . it makes them not noticeable in my clothes. I have been teased about them in the past, and i was humiliated. i was never comfortable being intimate except with one partner that i spent 5 years with. he passed away last year and i will always miss him......i have never come to terms with this deformity
I'm in my late 50s, I've had the 2 knobs sticking out above my butt crack as long as I can remember. I just figured it was from falling out of a tree, or falling off my bike, or falling down the stairs... I was an active kid. I've never noticed it much, except when doing situps on a hard surface. So I put a pad under my tail then, otherwise I'll rub the skin off. I did hundreds of situps a night as a teenager, I never let this slow me down. I never felt self-conscious about it. Recently a new partner was giving me a massage and asked me if I knew I had a big cyst above my butt, and I had no idea what she was talking about. I had her take pictures of it to show me, and I laughed when I saw it. I just told her, "That's part of my spine, it sticks out." Nothing to be self-conscious about for me. That's how I'm built, as much as the scars from my active life and everything else. I sure as heck wouldn't worry about what somebody thinks about it, if they do then that's their problem. If I was the vain type I might do a tattoo to highlight it in some way, but I just continue to ignore it as I always have.
have the same problem a large knot the seems larger over the past four years and bends like a perfect L into my body. It took four hours of pushing to deliver my first child and his skull was nearly crushed. My dad used to kick me with steel toed cowboy boots there and hit me with boards but the bone is so thick it broke them in half. Maybe god prepared some people for a fall he looked forward and seen in our lifee.
Just want to share my experience here. I'm a 21 year young guy living with a protruding tailbone ever since I was 13. It is still unknown why I did not have this problem at all before I was 13. It might be that I fell on my tailbone a couple of times when I was young and somehow did not notice that it became deformed/dislocated/etc.
What started as a protruding coccyx (little bit red and itchy at the skin in the buttocks) I went to several doctors/orthopedic surgeons/etc. but nobody would take my problem serious and just told me to live with it. So I did, and while sitting was really uncomfortable, I still continued for years to get used to it and sit on it anyway which put a lot of pressure on the coccyx/sacrum.
After a couple of years sitting on it, I noticed that the protruding coccyx (which was visible back then) started to slowly get pushed INWARDS. And even though it became less and less visible with the eye, even to the point that it the protrusion isn't visible at all anymore now, and people who look at at would see nothing anymore.. The more my tailbone gets pushed inwards due to sitting, the more problems I get with my back (stiffness), and my posture is significantly getting worse. While I could sit up straight 8 years ago, I am losing my balance with sitting straight now. My lower back became more stiff over time, after that I started to get problems with a chronic stiff neck. Even after visiting chiropractors/physiotherapists for years, the help would only be temporary, and right now 1 hour after treatment my neck is stiff again, and they cannot "loosen" the stiffness in my back anymore as it became too stiff now.
During these years I've tried consulting numerous doctors, even flew to visit a coccyx specialist Dr. Maigne in Paris, who made sitting/standing x-rays, but refused to provide me with surgery and simply assumed that it would get better if I gained more weight (which is absolutely false, I went from 48 kg to 63 kg and it has nothing to do with the tailbone problems).
As if the stiff back and neck problems weren't enough, it doesn't stop getting worse, and I am getting more problems every few months. At the moment, I have lost even more balance at my pelvis while setting, which causes my legs to get numb after sitting for a while. While sleeping, I have to switch positions over 20-30 times every night, as each position will cause numbness in either my legs or arms/shoulder. Lying on my stomach with a pillow under it feels most comfortable, but will cause numbness as well and is really bad for my neck.
And many more symptoms that words can't easily explain to somebody who never experienced the same problem.
Recently I've even visited many different hospitals and doctors in China, and even they would not take my problem serious simply because the coccyx itself doesn't hurt. Nobody believes me when I tell them all the stiffness/nerve problems are related to my coccyx (due to increasing bad posture).
Even though doctors assure me this won't happen, I am still afraid to end up in a wheel chair or having severe back issues such as hernia. It is just a matter of time. My back problems started since 5 years, and getting worse as time goes by, I don't even want to imagine how bad it will be when I turn 30, or 40, or 50, etc. (Currently studying business and will probably get a office job, which would make things even worse).
The most frustrating part of this is that even now, with all the symptoms that I am suffering with, when people look at me from the outside, they think that I am perfectly healthy just like them. (But if I didn't have this coccyx problem at all, I would look even triple as healthy).
Sometimes I really feel depressed about it, especially at times when I feel that my posture has drastically changed and completely feel immobile for a few days until you body adapts to getting used to it again. This problem has taken away my hobbies from me, and I find it unfair that I cannot do many of the exercises like everybody else while hitting the Gym. But I learnt that the most important thing is to STAY motivated in everything you do, and even if it gets really hard, try to keep a positive mind and think about the fact that there are millions of other people in the world who have it MUCH worse than you. (Even though this problem bothers me every single minute of the day, I would still prefer this 100 times over life threatening diseases such as cancer/aids). And seeing that some people who are paralyzed from their feet up till their chest, and still motivated to enjoy life, I continue thinking that I should not whine that much at all.
Still hope one day to miraculously bump into a surgeon who agrees to remove this bone for me, and I wish you all the best.
What started as a protruding coccyx (little bit red and itchy at the skin in the buttocks) I went to several doctors/orthopedic surgeons/etc. but nobody would take my problem serious and just told me to live with it. So I did, and while sitting was really uncomfortable, I still continued for years to get used to it and sit on it anyway which put a lot of pressure on the coccyx/sacrum.
After a couple of years sitting on it, I noticed that the protruding coccyx (which was visible back then) started to slowly get pushed INWARDS. And even though it became less and less visible with the eye, even to the point that it the protrusion isn't visible at all anymore now, and people who look at at would see nothing anymore.. The more my tailbone gets pushed inwards due to sitting, the more problems I get with my back (stiffness), and my posture is significantly getting worse. While I could sit up straight 8 years ago, I am losing my balance with sitting straight now. My lower back became more stiff over time, after that I started to get problems with a chronic stiff neck. Even after visiting chiropractors/physiotherapists for years, the help would only be temporary, and right now 1 hour after treatment my neck is stiff again, and they cannot "loosen" the stiffness in my back anymore as it became too stiff now.
During these years I've tried consulting numerous doctors, even flew to visit a coccyx specialist Dr. Maigne in Paris, who made sitting/standing x-rays, but refused to provide me with surgery and simply assumed that it would get better if I gained more weight (which is absolutely false, I went from 48 kg to 63 kg and it has nothing to do with the tailbone problems).
As if the stiff back and neck problems weren't enough, it doesn't stop getting worse, and I am getting more problems every few months. At the moment, I have lost even more balance at my pelvis while setting, which causes my legs to get numb after sitting for a while. While sleeping, I have to switch positions over 20-30 times every night, as each position will cause numbness in either my legs or arms/shoulder. Lying on my stomach with a pillow under it feels most comfortable, but will cause numbness as well and is really bad for my neck.
And many more symptoms that words can't easily explain to somebody who never experienced the same problem.
Recently I've even visited many different hospitals and doctors in China, and even they would not take my problem serious simply because the coccyx itself doesn't hurt. Nobody believes me when I tell them all the stiffness/nerve problems are related to my coccyx (due to increasing bad posture).
Even though doctors assure me this won't happen, I am still afraid to end up in a wheel chair or having severe back issues such as hernia. It is just a matter of time. My back problems started since 5 years, and getting worse as time goes by, I don't even want to imagine how bad it will be when I turn 30, or 40, or 50, etc. (Currently studying business and will probably get a office job, which would make things even worse).
The most frustrating part of this is that even now, with all the symptoms that I am suffering with, when people look at me from the outside, they think that I am perfectly healthy just like them. (But if I didn't have this coccyx problem at all, I would look even triple as healthy).
Sometimes I really feel depressed about it, especially at times when I feel that my posture has drastically changed and completely feel immobile for a few days until you body adapts to getting used to it again. This problem has taken away my hobbies from me, and I find it unfair that I cannot do many of the exercises like everybody else while hitting the Gym. But I learnt that the most important thing is to STAY motivated in everything you do, and even if it gets really hard, try to keep a positive mind and think about the fact that there are millions of other people in the world who have it MUCH worse than you. (Even though this problem bothers me every single minute of the day, I would still prefer this 100 times over life threatening diseases such as cancer/aids). And seeing that some people who are paralyzed from their feet up till their chest, and still motivated to enjoy life, I continue thinking that I should not whine that much at all.
Still hope one day to miraculously bump into a surgeon who agrees to remove this bone for me, and I wish you all the best.
I have the same thing as you and the pain is getting worse day by day. it is so hard to sit and the bones feel like it cuts my skin. It gets very sore irritated and at times gives me scores. They stick out so far and I have dimples on each side of them and it does look like it is a small stub like a dogs tail. it does not matter if I was over weight or thin, I have tried both nothing works to get the pain to go away..... it is just getting worse!
Hello again
how did your mother teach you to fall without breaking your backbone then neck if you accidentally did fall on your Achilles heal if you understand what i am saying.
A genuine question friend and thank you for sharing this to all involved .
Wish my mother told me, worked it out for myself though even though did not realize how fatal a negative fall could be resulting in being paralyzed.
Look forward to hearing from you sometime soon i hope.
All the best Mr Grumpy!
Tamerlame...
how did your mother teach you to fall without breaking your backbone then neck if you accidentally did fall on your Achilles heal if you understand what i am saying.
A genuine question friend and thank you for sharing this to all involved .
Wish my mother told me, worked it out for myself though even though did not realize how fatal a negative fall could be resulting in being paralyzed.
Look forward to hearing from you sometime soon i hope.
All the best Mr Grumpy!
Tamerlame...
Hello Lady Tail,
i liked what you had to say on
your outlook to your lets say your physical trait, you learn to live with like a way of life through your youth and adolescent life.
May i ask does any of your family members share this trait !
Rock on Lady Tail
.
P.S. are you as good looking as your husband!!!
All the best to you both.
Tamerlame.
i liked what you had to say on
your outlook to your lets say your physical trait, you learn to live with like a way of life through your youth and adolescent life.
May i ask does any of your family members share this trait !
Rock on Lady Tail
.
P.S. are you as good looking as your husband!!!
All the best to you both.
Tamerlame.
i hv a tail bone since 2 months. i v some mild pain while sitting.hv lost 16 kgs since 1 yr .is that a possible reason? wht is this new prob i hv now?wt must i do bout it
Hi All,
I'm 27 and I've had this problem for years. My sister also has it but we've also both broken our coccyx so I'm not sure whether genes play a role or not. I now work in an office and the pain has become quite unbearable. Looking at diagrams of the spine, I think it's the sacrum rather than the tail bone sticking out (at least for me). Mine is about 10cm across and sits at the base of my back, above my crack. Surgery isn't an option due to the risk of it being ineffective or making it worse (don't believe surgeons if they tell you otherwise). My best solution for sitting has been to use a half back lumber support cushion and cut the middle out so that there's no pressure on the area. I also sit on my side with my legs curled up next to met, making sure I spend an equal amount of time on both sides (although my physio says to keep this to a minimum). I've trialed kneeling chairs too, and they are brilliant. If I could use one at work I'd do that. Regarding the cosmetic issue, I've learnt to accept that this is part of my body. This is something that can't really be changed so I continuing to dwell on it won't help. I focus in the things I do like about my body (easier said than done). Hope this helps!
I'm 27 and I've had this problem for years. My sister also has it but we've also both broken our coccyx so I'm not sure whether genes play a role or not. I now work in an office and the pain has become quite unbearable. Looking at diagrams of the spine, I think it's the sacrum rather than the tail bone sticking out (at least for me). Mine is about 10cm across and sits at the base of my back, above my crack. Surgery isn't an option due to the risk of it being ineffective or making it worse (don't believe surgeons if they tell you otherwise). My best solution for sitting has been to use a half back lumber support cushion and cut the middle out so that there's no pressure on the area. I also sit on my side with my legs curled up next to met, making sure I spend an equal amount of time on both sides (although my physio says to keep this to a minimum). I've trialed kneeling chairs too, and they are brilliant. If I could use one at work I'd do that. Regarding the cosmetic issue, I've learnt to accept that this is part of my body. This is something that can't really be changed so I continuing to dwell on it won't help. I focus in the things I do like about my body (easier said than done). Hope this helps!
I also have a "large tailbone" one thing I noticed is that if I do butt exercises then it makes the musscles look more round and "normal" but if I don't you can really tell that my tailbone sticks out a lot and looks odd. Hope this helps.
I have a protruding tail bone too. I am a 38 year old lady. It has got worse after pregnancy. I also struggle to sit on hard surfaces if I slouch. It almost looks like my buttocks start too low down my back. Anyway, I just wanted to say to the people that feel embarrassed, I have been married for 16 years to a man that loves my bottom, in fact it is his favourite place of me (well, that and my legs). He used to be a model, looks a lot like a Johnny Depp/Antonio Banderas mix. My aim is not to be egotistical. It is just to say that I do not even notice that I have a protruding coccyx most of the time due to him making me feel so beautiful in how he compliments me etc. There is hope, when you meet someone whose opinion counts. And yes, one of my exes did draw my attention to my weird bottom. So have experienced that too.
i two have the two nots pratruding on my tail bone its almost like my tail bone is backwards. i have been in pain scence i had my daughter 8 months ago but my butt bone was like that scence i was born
i two have the two nots pratruding on my tail bone its almost like my tail bone is backwards. i have been in pain scence i had my daughter 8 months ago but my butt bone was like that scence i was born
I have this as well! I always thought I was the only one with this weird deformity. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one. Mine isn't painful unless I push hard on it or if I'm sitting on a hard surface or trying to do sit-ups.
Mine is a protruding bump, then an indention, and then my butt crack. It doesn't look like it protrudes very much, but it's very prominent when felt. I really wish there was something I could do about it as it makes me insecure.
Photos on my profile.
Mine is a protruding bump, then an indention, and then my butt crack. It doesn't look like it protrudes very much, but it's very prominent when felt. I really wish there was something I could do about it as it makes me insecure.
Photos on my profile.
Wow I'm so glad I'm not alone I've bin looking for someone that has the same problem as me! Mine is also like a little bump at the top of my butt crack. It hurts when I do sit ups or lay in an smears place. Other than that I don't have a problem with it, its really just embarrassing to me...I'm ALWAYS afraid my friends who see me dress or partners will make fun of it. I so have scoliocis (I don't know how to spell that) and I hate that too although its not as noticeable as my crack...I've bin looking if anyone has got a surgery for it also, I really just want it gone or shaved down like a bunyan on a foot
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