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Nice to meet you @ psearby17! It might be a good idea to mention how you've been feeling to your family dr or pain Dr, if you have one. It's common for someone to develop depression and anxiety when they are is constant pain. There thing your Dr can do to help with the. I have major depression, all my life. It did get worse after my failed back surgery and my Dr needed to increase my dose.
Do you have grown children or parents that you enjoy visiting with? Even something like that or a phone call to a friend is just enough to distract you from the pain. It's about all I can do these day since walking is so difficult. I know about the inflamed coccyx. I broke mine during a forcep delivery of my oldest child. I still have to sit on a hard chair with a leg under my butt to take the pressire off. My mom's was so bad it poked through the bottom of spine and thru the skin! Have you tried strategically placing pillows in a way that takes the pressure off that part of your spine? Have you tried a tens? There are good ones on Amazon if you're interseted. Have you spoke with a surgeon or pain management yet? You need to sleep or it's just going to make things worse. Keeping you in my prayers {{hugz}}
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Hey Sweetpam, thanks for your great advice. Good to hear from you. I've been to a pain management doctor. We're planning on doing a ganglion impar block injection in the near future for my coccyx. Also have scheduled a medical branch block in a couple of weeks for my neck. I have the same issues you do. I didn't know about using pillows. Never thought of that. I do use a TENS unit and that helps a lot. I just can't sit for very long even with the TENS unit so traveling in a car or plane I haven't been able to do. I have trouble sleeping and have had trouble for years. I have to take a benzo and an amino acid in order to get some sleep. I wish I wasn't dependent on them but I am. Thank you for your prayers. How do you manage to get on with your life with all of your issues. I have grown children but they do not want to have much to do with me. One lives very far away and the other just is too busy with her own life, so visiting them isn't in the works for me. I try to stay in touch with friends but most of them don't want to know I'm in pain or what is going on with me. They don't have any physical issues. That hurts me. So I don't say anything about how I'm feeling and that gets me more depressed. So nice of you to respond to me. That means a lot to me.