I was on our work shuttle, and as I sat down, the bus took off suddenly. I was propelled backwards and down onto the seat, where two seatbelt inserts (metal) were sticking upwards. I landed on them, right on my tailbone. It hurt a lot at the time, but the pain eased off. That was about two months ago. Since then, the pain has begun to escalate again, and it is easily as bad as when the injury was done. Bleh. Not encouraging that effective treatment of this, among nearly every pain I've had in life, seems to escape modern western medicine.

Sitting have gotten painful I'm finding out it's only when I say on my bed, at work when sitting I have not experience an pain when sitting, Lately I have to lay on my side after sitting for periods of time in my bed, the feeling is strange it almost feel like the "cushion" is gone from my buttocks, putting something soft under to sit on helps somewhat but the pain/throbbing is still present. I'm 57 going through menopause.

I have had tailbone (coccyx) pain going on about 6-8 months. The pain is worsened by prolonged sitting and when trying to stand, it feels similar to what I imagine it would feel like to having a garden stake impaled on that area. It has gotten worse in the last 3 months for even walking. I have not fallen or have had any injury to that area. I do have RA and not sure if that is part of the reason for it starting. Finally seeing my PCP and finding out if anything short of surgery can be done.

I have had 2 lower back surgeries and now have this coccyx pain. Riding in the car and sitting make it even worse. Getting up after sitting is extremely painful. I am like everyone else posting here. I am sick of this pain all the time.

My tailbone pain started in the middle of 2011, I put up with it as long as I could. I finally went to see my doctor in February 2012. Of course I ended up in pain management. I have had three injections, and am getting ready to have a fourth. I'm on pain medicine now. First it was Hydrocodone, now I'm on Oxycodone, a much stronger drug. But the pain will not go away, it just came out of nowhere. I was thinking it came from sitting on hard chairs at my church. But I'm in pain all the time and it will not go away. Not sure what to do next.

Several weeks ago, I slipped off a small ladder, backwards. I went down hard, on concrete, hitting my elbow, head and tailbone. The lump on my head went away and my elbow feels fine now. It has now dawned on me why sitting upright and doing situps, pains my tailbone. I am not in severe pain by any means but I'm beginning to think that the lingering pain is from my fall. I suppose it's time to visit my doctor.

I have cocydynia due to levaquin and predisone posioning. The MRI shows extreme inflammation to this area. The pain is horrendous, I cannot walk nor sit. I cannot take steroids or pain meds. I cannot get the inflammation to go away and cannot take anti-inflammatories as this makes the levaquin damage worse. I cannot live like this much longer. It has been 5 months of shearing pain.

I have been experiencing tailbone, sacral area pain for the past year. Very neurogenic type symptoms. I have a Tarlov cyst on my S3-S4 nerve root and according to doctors that is not causing my symptoms, although information online states it can be symptomatic and all the symptoms mentioned I have. How can you definitely diagnosis coccyx pain? I've had no specific diagnosis yet and I have tried every neurogenic pain medicine, 3 epidural injections, anti-inflammatories and nothing helps. For the gentleman who is having intermittent pain when waking up, it could be proctalgia fugax. I am so frustrated I could scream.

I overdid it. I was traveling by car, lots of sitting, and lots of walking. I came home exhausted with lower back pain, but tolerable. After a week something aggravated it, perhaps some heavy lifting or maybe even sex. My coccyx hurts along with the lower part of my tailbone, and deep in my groin, more while sitting. It feels like I'm sitting on a rock. It also hurts when I'm lying directly on my tailbone. I need to lie on my side which is now sore as it's taking the brunt of the load. The doctor is not very helpful, after 2 months of pain he finally ordered an MRI but not of the coccyx region. He says it is arthritis, but I don't think my symptoms correspond. Although it could be. In the beginning walking helped relieve the pain. Now it gets worse after a short walk. I thought it was my sciatica piriformis muscle, but now I think it is a stress fracture.