Weird Question...

If I sit down too long my butt hurts.  It's more like my tailbone I guess.  This has just started happening to me over the last couple of months.  It's very annoying and frusterating.  I dont understand why this is happening to me.  I havent fallen on my tailbone or even fallen on my butt.  I was reading a thread somewhere and someone mentioned their butt hurt as well from sitting to long and they were attributing it to weight loss.  Is this true?  Is it because I've lost weight and I'm getting down to my ideal weight? 

It's an embarrasing issue for me to talk about on here but I'm hoping that someone out there will feel my pain, literally. 

sounds to me like you've lost some padding :) Congrats.

I don't know if it's down to weight loss but I get this too.  I have been going to a sports massage therapist for 12 months now and she tells me that I must get up and wander around every 2 hours.  Also posture is very important - concentrate on sitting up on your sitting bones and don't slouch.

If you work sitting down, look at getting a new chair.  I recently bought an office chair made specifically for women and I have a timer set to remind me to get up off my backside every 2 hours.  It has really helped.

 

Yeah, it means you've lost body fat in your bum. I would suggest doing weighted squats to build muscle in that area so you have something between the surface you're sitting on and your tailbone.

Congradulations on your successful weight loss!

Jessica;

I literally feel your pain, I have the exact same issue.  This started about a year ago after losing my first 50#.  I think it is because of the loss of padding in that area.  I have tried new chairs ect. and have found certain chairs that work better for me than others.  However, my office chair in my home office seems to be a frequent culprit, and I just bought it.  I have found that if in my office chairs that if I sit up straight with some of my weight on my thighs I have much less problems.  If you come up with any other solutions please let me know.

Leslie

Original Post by swimchick_123:

sounds to me like you've lost some padding :) Congrats.

 ROFL.  Thanks for the help and input on this.  I really appreciate it.  I stand all day long at work, 10 hrs a day.  Then I come home and sit on the couch and after about 30-45 min of sitting my butt just hurts.  Maybe I am just loosing my padding.  I already do weighted squats, but I will continue to do them.  I will also work on my posture. 

It's really nice to hear that there are others out there that have the same problem.  I just want my butt to stop hurting. lol.

Thanks guys. 

I've just been signed off work cos i bashed mine and i cant sit down properlly, i understand your pain!

Have you had children? (hope you dont mind me asking!)

This can put pressure on you tail bone :(

xXx

No kids.  It's okay that you asked, I'm not easily offended.  My sister had problems with that.

 

Congratulations on your weight loss!!  Trust me, I know exactly what you are talking about and according to my cosmetic surgeon who is doing all of my reconstruction, it is indeed from weight loss...there's no padding left there!

Oh my God...my tailbone hurt so bad, I couldn't sit for any length of time, as you described, it was like sitting right on the bone.  My buttlift surgery was the worst to recover from, but it was sooooo worth it, because the Dr. removed the excess skin and lifted me butt, so it's no longer uncomfortable to sit.  I have to drive a lot for business, so sitting had been becoming an issue, even sitting on a pillow didn't help...now, I have no problems other then just being stiff when I am in the car too long.  Plus, my Fiance says I have the butt of a 25yo now! LOL

Good luck!

Robbyn

Original Post by foreverme24:

If I sit down too long my butt hurts. It's more like my tailbone I guess. This has just started happening to me over the last couple of months. It's very annoying andfrusterating. I dont understand why this is happening to me. I havent fallen on my tailbone or even fallen on my butt. I was reading a thread somewhere and someone mentioned their butt hurt as well from sitting to long and they were attributing it to weight loss. Is this true? Is it because I've lost weight and I'm getting down to my ideal weight?

It's an embarrasing issue for me to talk about on here but I'm hoping that someone out there will feel my pain, literally.

 

Hey thanks for the congrats.  I'm glad to know its just my weight loss.  I dont know how I'm going to fix it???  I definatley am not going to gain the weight back. lol.  Maybe I could talk to my trainer about it, build some more muscle back there. 

I had the same things happen to me too randomly and it hurt so bad! I was visiting Savannah Georgia, and I thought it was from the car (the 5 hour road trip)...it hurt real bad for like 3 days and I could barely sit down at work...

then it went away...and then a few weeks later it hurt again for another few days...so I didn't think it was from sitting down too long.

I'm still not sure what its from, but for me I dont think it was "lost padding" cause I had been maintaining my weight! Good luck on figuring out what it is, I know how bad it hurts!

The only thing I could think of is it was from straining my back maybe from doing my crunches wrong? Because I realized thats when it hurt, a couple days after I did my crunches on the wood floor (on a yoga mat of course, but still it could have been the surface). Have you done any crunches on a not so soft surface lately?

Yeah I do ab work on a matt.  Mine hurts everyday though not just the days I do ab work.  Im really trying to think if anything I do at the gym could be causing this pain. 

I find that when Im sitting on the couch if I sit on the side of my butt it doesnt hurt as bad.  I want to talk to my trainer about it but Im a little embarassed to bring it up.  If my trainer was a girl maybe it would be easier.

I wouldn't just assume its from your work outs or weight lose.  I did and a few months later I couldn't walk drive move etc.... Long story short I herniated (sp?) 2 discs in my lumbar region.  Now I will never be the same again and can't work out or stand up some times.  Turns out if i had taken the pain in my tail bone more seriously I could have avoided the pain I am going threw now. 

A simple back x-ray will determine if your having an narrowing of the spaces the vertibray (sp?) in your spine and are at risk.  Hopefully it is from your weight lose though.

 

Wow.  I truly hope thats not what it is.   Im sorry to hear that for you.  How did you end up doing that to yourself?  Did it just start all of a sudden?

No one had an answer to that question.  The best they could come up with is years worth of little things like 2 rear ended car accidents, a strained back a few year ago at work and several skiing falls....and of course my weight.

I hope its not that either, but if possible I would like someone to be able to avoid the pain I am going threw.  If I had seen a dr for my tail bone pain 1 year ago I would be functioning like a 'normal' person now.  So if someone can learn from my stubbornness of thinking "what am I going to tell the dr? My a** hurts?". I thought it sounded stupid at the time.

My whole point is though, don't ignore little things, if its bothering you enough to mention it in an open forum, its probably worth mentioning to your dr.

Anyway having said that....After weeks of suffering with an sports med/ortho dr a chiropracter helped me the most.  Again me being stubborn only went to a chiro after my ortho dr said they had to stick a needle in my spine to give me any kind of relief.

O well live and learn.  If you would like a specific journal of how my symptom started, email me and I will do a run down of the progression for you. Like one of the symptoms was, what I thought was, a charlie horse in my leg.  Go figure?

After reading your post I decided to look it up on WebMd.  I dont think thats what I have because of the whole leg pain thats associated with it.  No leg pain here.  Although next time I see my doc. I will mention it to her.  Probably not a bad idea.  Cant hurt.

that really can be from the weight loss

 

are you exercising? do more exercises for the butt, gain some muscle

It's from weight loss.  Even when I was my heaviest I had 'Noassat'all' syndrome, so when I lost weight the worst pain I felt was lying in the tanning bed!  I thought I was literally going to die.  My butt bone felt like a giant spike.

I have seen a surgery where they actually shave part of the tailbone down due to that very reason, but I don't think so......I'll stick with reshaping my not-so-there behind!

yeah, same thing with me. When you lose enough weight that your bones are getting uncovered, your tailbone's usually one of the first ones to really show it. Of course, it's not usually visible/noticeable if you're just standing there, but when you sit you definitely feel it.