im not sure if this goes on this thread, but here goes...on saturday i noticed that it was somewhat painful to sit. today (monday) it is now incredibly painful to lay on anything other than my side, it hurts a lot to sit, stadning is not horrible but walking or moving around in general does not feel good.the pain comes directly from my tailbone area, i seem to have a bump or a lump or something on the area slighty below where my (sorry to be blunt) ass crack begins. The left cheek near the aea also feels swollen, and its almost like i have a giant zit on the area. but thats not what it is, cause something would have popped by now.I havent fallen or injured the area in any way, so I have no idea how this came to be and this is the first time anything like this has happened. I've been taking advil like crazy but nothing seems to stop the pain. I have taken a few warm baths and applying warm washclothes to the area but again, nothing. I have a doctors appointment on Wednesday, thats the earliest they could get me in, but does anyone have any ideas about this? What I could possibly do to releive some pain and maybe get some sleep? My mom thinks it is a cyst or even a tumor. I just dont know. ANy help, thanks
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Bump on tailbone area
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Kinda sounds like a boil to me. Check out the link and see what you think.
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it mostly sounds like the Pilonidal cyst, and I did some research on it. It seems surgery is the best way to go in terms of getting rid of it permanetly. I have some Draw Out Salve on it now...hope it works cause surgery is one thing but surgery without health insurance is really terrifying. Thanks for the link.
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I'm agreeing with the cyst.. my dad had one, sounds exactly like what you described. And he had to have it packed with gauze for a couple of weeks!
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shudders my dad's got more infected or something and he had to have the gauze changed every couple of days.. took longer healing .. blah!
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hey, thanks for the reply. turns it out it was the cyst, and it was infected and all that good stuff, so they did minor surgery without me having to get knocked out. it really wasnt that bad, but when i had to go back yesterday to have it checked out- when they took the packing out- OMG, painful. I have to go back tomorrow to have it checked again, then I am done with going there and it gets to heal while I check on it at home. Since then, I am in practically no pain, but that could be cause of all the not so necessary painkillers I am.