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A few (like 4 or 5) weeks ago while tapping a keg at I fell and hit my tailbone. It still hurts in the morning and bed time. Depending on the day it still can aswell. I take a few aspirin to stop but It It's still hurting. I can bearly bend over. How can I fix or cope with this.

Ouch, been there, done that.

Time is basically all you can really do for it long term but short term I find hot water bottles/heating pads help when sitting down.

If you have a jacuzzi, setting the jets to a low pulse to very gently massage helped me out some. Four or five weeks sounds like a pretty long time though (Dammit Jim, I'm not a doctor) so you might want to consult with your physician, maybe even just call them up and ask whether or not it's something that needs to be checked out.

Well, I still deliver kegs and beer all day.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
A few (like 4 or 5) weeks ago while tapping a keg at I fell and hit my tailbone. It still hurts in the morning and bed time. Depending on the day it still can aswell. I take a few aspirin to stop but It It's still hurting. I can bearly bend over. How can I fix or cope with this.

Go to a doctor. It might be broken, and trust me, you don't want it to heal badly. My wife fell and broke her tail bone in middle school and it healed badly because her parents were pretty much negligent; to this day she cannot sit normally in chairs for very long at all without pain and has a lot of back pain from the way that she does sit.

I don't have pain when I sit ever

Go to a doctor anyway.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I don't have pain when I sit ever

Look, you started this thread for a reason. 5 or 6 weeks of pain seems like more than a bruise to me, and we are talking about the extremity of your spinal column rather than a pinky toe, so maybe decide whether you hate going to the doctor more than you hate possibly having this pain for foreseeable future.

It is some thing I am thinking about. It went got OK for two weeks then today spiked up.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I take a few aspirin to stop but It It's still hurting. I can bearly bend over. How can I fix or cope with this.

Go to an actual doctor.

You should go and see a doctor.

I bruised mine snowboarding.
It took 18 months to heal properly.

 Ouze wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I take a few aspirin to stop but It It's still hurting. I can bearly bend over. How can I fix or cope with this.

Go to an actual doctor.

This made me spit water all over my desk.

Well played, sir. Well played, indeed.

But yeah, go to a doctor.

Ouch 18 months. That gotta hurt.
I do plan on seeing how I can see a doctor(Medical never got back to me) But I wanted to see if anyone had similiar experiances.
Maybe I should talk to my boss ad ask if I could stop doing so much heavy lifting.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Ouch 18 months. That gotta hurt.
I do plan on seeing how I can see a doctor(Medical never got back to me) But I wanted to see if anyone had similiar experiances.
Maybe I should talk to my boss ad ask if I could stop doing so much heavy lifting.

See a doctor first. He'll probably suggest that you take it a bit easier in that kind of thing, anyway, then you can get a note to excuse you from that side of work. Boss can't argue with a doctor's note.

My wife did this a year ago. She slipped on the stairs, sat down very hard and most likely fractured her coccyx. (The little vestigial tailbone at the bottom of the spine.) We took her to the local hospital for a check-up. (Thanks NHS for free treatment!)

The problem with this is there is very little the doctors can do to help. They can't put your arse in a cast.

You just have to take painkillers, sit on a blow-up rubber ring, and bear it for the eight weeks or so it takes to heal naturally. Obviously you should also try to avoid the kind of activities that might put a strain on your bottom.

Hopefully you are well on in the healing process and should by now have noticed a reduction in the pain and swelling.

 Kilkrazy wrote:


Hopefully you are well on in the healing process and should by now have noticed a reduction in the pain and swelling.

I have, I mostly see it in the morning from stiffness. today was weird though.