Should I go to the doctor? Or just cope with the pain?

RyleeLorr · January 2012

Ok, well I fell down the stairs 3 weeks again. Hit nearly everysingle part of my body with it. I got bruises on my legs and arms straight away. Though I had a pain in my back (Tail bone) Just about the butt. There was nothing there until a day after. It had swollen up and I was in alot of pain. I didn't go to the doctors because we thought it might just be a bruise of some sort. So, I just carryed on and tryed to ignor the pain. Now, at 3 weeks later, the swelling is bigger and is still as painful. Very little improvment. It feels much better standing up and walking. But still hurts alot.. though I try not to say anything. But when I sit down (Especally on the ground) It REALLY hurts. It just, AAAAA, really, really painful. It doesn't help ever when we have assembly three times a week for half an hour. And we are sitting on the group too. I sit for a second andit starts hurting. -.- I looked on the internet (Ye, ye, I know I am not serposed to) But I just wanted to see if anyone else had the same problame. They don't. Nothing on there describes what I have. Nothing. It's not bruised or anything. Just a big, swellon patch on my tail bone. -.- I am not joking with the pain here. I have a high pain refreshold (Copes with pain) And, well, as the rumor goes, i'm ginger. (Rumor said gingers have a high pain refreshold) So, ye, I hate the doctors... but it does hurt so I don't know if I should go. Help?

Trianna · January 2012

You might have fractured your tailbone. My sister did the same thing trying to roller skate in the hose when she was young, she tripped, fell down the stairs, and broke her tailbone.

Alabama · January 2012

You should probably get it checked out, but to me it sounds like a broke tail bone, as Trianna said. I did that once coming off a horse and being drug on my backside for a quite a ways. It's not too painful when you stand or walk compared to sitting or going down stairs, that's just agony, let alone trying to bounce or jump. My butt hurt for months afterwards.<br><br>There's not much they can do if it is broke except tell you to take it easy, but they can X-Ray and make sure that's the problem, as well as give you a note so you can stand whenever you need to and perhaps give you some pain meds.

RyleeLorr · January 2012

I was thinking about it being broken, but wouldn't it have just brusied already though? And I don't think I can stand the whole day though. When at school. My whole day is just sitting down, except when we are moving to different classes. I can't bend ever. If I stand, I won't b able to do any work.. but it is very painful when I sit.. sitting on chairs as well.

EmmeZoec · January 2012

Maybe bring a pillow to sit on? Someone at my school broke her tail bone and the doctor had her sit on a pillow at school.

Minx · January 2012

Definitally go to the doctor! <br><br>I was in a race (racing with a green broke mustang is NOT a good idea) with my brothers and my gelding slipped and i literally fell on my tailbone and landed on a tree rot. I couldnt walk for two weeks without being in so much pain i cried. Later that year i had back surgery.... GO TO THE DOCTOR O-o

Alabama · January 2012

Mine never "bruised" as in got black and blue.

Adrianna32 · January 2012

I was training a dog a hundred pounds bigger then me, he took off after a cat, my legs gave out and I fell on my tail bone, then was dragged for a hundred feet or so. -_- Hurt like hell for a few weeks, then dulled down a little, but I still had problems sitting in school, just like you. Go to the doctor. Perhaps they'll give you something for pain/a note like Bama said. I didn't go, I figured it would go away. But it got worse before it got better. Maybe you can skip the worse part by going in.

lablover1993 · January 2012

You need to go to the doctor, since it is probably broken. I missed my chair in class once >.< and hit the concrete floor. my teacher had my mother rush me to the emergency room (I was in like 6th grade) and they did x-rays. I had shattered my tailbone,not broken but like it was in a zillion pieces, the doctor said that if this one piece had been a few more centimeters up it would have punctured a vertebrae and paralysed me. It hurt like a fecker and I had to carry that silly little pillow around for weeks, and sleep on my stomach. You want to get it checked out to make sure nothing is seriously wrong.

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Should I go to the doctor? Or just cope with the pain?

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