Chronic Coccyx bone pain. Tingling in legs.

I hope you are sitting on a cushion with a hole for relief

I have a damaged coccyx. I have degenerative disc disease. I have had many joint replacements many surgeries mini therapies many treatments over 30 years. The one thing that has never been removed is my tailbone pain. It comes and goes with the weather. Especially bad when the weather takes a dramatic change. Still after 30 years there are times where I don’t have the pain at all. It’s probably just “degeneration.“ In a general sense at 68 years old. I take light opioids for 25 years because the pain is so distracting I can’t function sometimes. Nobody knows if it was caused by falls when I was a kid auto accidents, horseback riding bad posture whatever it’s just a pain in my bones my tailbone. No one wants to touch it surgically. And they can’t lift me let me suffer. None of the pain medicines worked for me except the Percocet/oxycodone. I see an orthopedic surgeon regularly for the rest of my spine and the degenerative disc condition. I have I see pain management doctors and I see an MFR therapist twice a month. They can’t do surgery on the tailbone or rather they don’t want to because it’s not successful 50% of the time. I am very comfortable with the opioid. There has been no increase of use over the 25 years that I take it regularly. A very good doctors at UCHealth. (Ucsd.) . There are a lot of tiny muscles called paraspinals that connect to your spine and with disc degeneration and age they get weekend and stressed so it helps to see an MFR therapist who can massage them into alignment periodically. But it has zero impact on the bone itself, which seems to be aggravated by whether change in my case. Good luck.

Can’t answer your question but how can such a little thing cause so much pain ? I fell backwards on concrete and ruptured many disks and injured my tailbone . 8 years later that little bugger causes me discomfort . Learning to clench the cheeks before sitting helps and the heated seat in the truck is nice .

Ps I was offered total removal but they said the chance of bladder damage is high and did I want to take that chance ?

Having suffered with chronic coccyx pain for years I finally had an ablation which was a big success. Also have 4to6 month back injections. I am so much better. I have a pain management doctor.

I always sit on a cushion specifically for coccyx pain, never without, car, restaurants, travel.
It does help