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What Is The Treatment For Severe Tailbone Pain?

I woke up two days ago with MAJOR tailbone pain. It hurts to the touch and hurts to move my legs or bend over. I did nothing to injure it; I didn t fall or sit any differently. I went to the doctor and they said it could be a number of things but herpes and shingles were what I remembered the doctor saying. It s gotten worse the past couple days. I m 45 with no recent sexual partners. What could this be?!
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Those are some of the possibilities. A disk is less likely because the area is below where the disks typically hit. An irritation or injury can occur in that area just from sitting on it without good cushioning. but you say that is not the cause. There can be turmos that can hit there or with osteoporosis bones there can collapse.
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What Is The Treatment For Severe Tailbone Pain?

Those are some of the possibilities. A disk is less likely because the area is below where the disks typically hit. An irritation or injury can occur in that area just from sitting on it without good cushioning. but you say that is not the cause. There can be turmos that can hit there or with osteoporosis bones there can collapse.