tailbone pain

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I have a doc who diagnosed me with a cystocele and a rectocele and basically said that the surgery is only moderately helpful and can be problematic. He told me to live my life and try to cope for as long as I can. I am 35 and have 2 kids. That was a year ago, but now I am having tailbone discomfort. If I tighten up to do a kegel, my tailbone hurts and I also feel as though I'm sitting on something under my tailbone at times. Is this part of it or an unrelated problem?

Yes, tailbone pain is a common symptom with these conditions. It

No known tailbone injury that I know of. I've been doing a lot of elliptical training and some jogging recently along with pilates. I'm wondering if any of this could have aggravated things.

I've done some of the posturing, but need to concentrate more on this. I felt so good for a while that I forgot to think about it. Then, recently, I started running (only 2 miles a day) and elliptical training and am having trouble. I constantly feel crampy as though I'm on my period and feel like my abdomen sticks out. I spend half of my life tightening my ab muscles to flatten out my belly so I don't feel so pudgy. I'm 5'4" and usually weight 128-130. Over the last year I have ballooned up to 139, but I'm working hard to rectify that situation. Anyway, I'll review the video and begin putting your exercises into my daily routine in place of the pilates videos I've been doing.

Hi,

Maybe someone else knows more about cystocele and rectocele and the relation to tailbone pain, but I also had a lot of tailbone pain when I started doing a lot of kegels and/or learned to consciously lift and tighten my pelvic floor muscles during everyday motions and exercise. Eventually the tailbone pain went away. I had a tailbone injury when I was younger and I sort of feel that the strengthening of those muscles helped re-align my tailbone and that's where the pain was coming from...

Don't know if that helps. Did you ever injure yours?

Evie

:) I see Christine did know about it!!!

Thanks for your response. It's nice to know that this doesn't have to be a permanent sensation. :)