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Hi everyone,
I seem to only log into LJ when I want to post in this community, haha. It's the only really active fibro one I've been able to find.
Anyway, wanted to see if anyone else has gone through what I am going through.
Background: I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2010...I don't know if it's "accurate." I had a high anti-nuclear antibody count and so they tested me for all sorts of autoimmune diseases but I didn't have any of the common ones. I didn't pursue it much because I was in the States with no health care (I'm in Canada now). Normally my flare ups were in my shoulders, knees, fingers, toes - in the joints mostly (some people say that's "not fibromyalgia" but...whatever) But I haven't had a flare up in those areas in a long time. Instead, my tailbone suddenly started hurting!
I ride horses once a week, and I like to work out at the gym. I was really having no problems, but I started getting lower back cramping while riding. If you're familiar with horseback riding - when I do a rising trot (where you sit down and stand up repeatedly), my lower back starts cramping a lot. So I decided to start going to a physiotherapist. When I was there for my first session, he poked around and pushed on my tailbone, which hurt really, really bad. Since then, the pain has been localized to my tailbone, and it feels burny and stingy...Like someone is holding a lighted match to my tailbone. It's not burning like it's on fire, but it's been a constant slight burn, and hurts when I sit on hard surfaces too long. (I am currently sitting on an inflatable donut cushion...) I'm also still getting the lower back cramping.
I'm taking a couple weeks off riding because I can't imagine having my tailbone bouncing up and down on a horse.
It's all super weird and seems very random. I don't know if the lower back cramping and tailbone issue have anything to do with each other, but everything is connected, so they might.
Has anyone ever had fibromyalgia tailbone issues? My massage therapist told me she has fibromyalgia patients who commonly have pain in their sacrum and tailbone.
Thanks all.
I seem to only log into LJ when I want to post in this community, haha. It's the only really active fibro one I've been able to find.
Anyway, wanted to see if anyone else has gone through what I am going through.
Background: I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2010...I don't know if it's "accurate." I had a high anti-nuclear antibody count and so they tested me for all sorts of autoimmune diseases but I didn't have any of the common ones. I didn't pursue it much because I was in the States with no health care (I'm in Canada now). Normally my flare ups were in my shoulders, knees, fingers, toes - in the joints mostly (some people say that's "not fibromyalgia" but...whatever) But I haven't had a flare up in those areas in a long time. Instead, my tailbone suddenly started hurting!
I ride horses once a week, and I like to work out at the gym. I was really having no problems, but I started getting lower back cramping while riding. If you're familiar with horseback riding - when I do a rising trot (where you sit down and stand up repeatedly), my lower back starts cramping a lot. So I decided to start going to a physiotherapist. When I was there for my first session, he poked around and pushed on my tailbone, which hurt really, really bad. Since then, the pain has been localized to my tailbone, and it feels burny and stingy...Like someone is holding a lighted match to my tailbone. It's not burning like it's on fire, but it's been a constant slight burn, and hurts when I sit on hard surfaces too long. (I am currently sitting on an inflatable donut cushion...) I'm also still getting the lower back cramping.
I'm taking a couple weeks off riding because I can't imagine having my tailbone bouncing up and down on a horse.
It's all super weird and seems very random. I don't know if the lower back cramping and tailbone issue have anything to do with each other, but everything is connected, so they might.
Has anyone ever had fibromyalgia tailbone issues? My massage therapist told me she has fibromyalgia patients who commonly have pain in their sacrum and tailbone.
Thanks all.