Before a healthy and beautiful baby is born, a pregnant woman has to overcome a large number of obstacles in her path. After childbirth, the figure is deformed, stretch marks appear, and the likelihood of injuries and tears increases several times. And that’s all, apart from the psychological state in which she is, just sheer stress. But happiness very quickly overshadows the pain that appears almost immediately after childbirth. This is due to the fact that the coccyx begins to hurt in the woman who gave birth.
This symptom is called coccyalgia. Pain in the coccyx or in the anus is usually paroxysmal or persistent. It happens that its occurrence is not limited to one place, and it becomes so strong that it is impossible to endure. Very often, the pain in the coccyx increases when standing up, the same thing happens when sitting and defining, while the area of its lesion increases, moving to the inner thighs, buttocks and genitals.
Common reasons
There are a lot of reasons for such pain. This may even be due to an injury that you have long forgotten about. Also tailbone pain can cause complex births, diseases associated with the rectum or genitourinary system, inflammation of the joints and organs of the abdominal cavity, as well as the deposition of salts. Intolerable pain also occurs for a number of other reasons, such as: rectal disease, anal fissures, hemorrhoids and proctitis. If after the operation in the anus your crotch has lowered and the anus is deformed, then this also affects the condition of your coccyx.
Causes of pain after pregnancy
So what causes tailbone pain after childbirth? Most likely, this happens because the skeleton is formed, in particular, changes occur in the pelvic region, in which the bones tend to move from their places in order to facilitate the safe exit of the child.
There is another version that the pinched nerve that comes out of the coccyx also causes severe pain.
Another reason that doctors call is the threat of abortion. At the same time, pain in the tailbone is associated with the resulting inflammatory processes, including inflammation of the uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries.
How to fight ?
I do not want, of course, to upset expectant mothers, but such pain is a common condition of the woman who gave birth. According to some medical forecasts, after a while it should come to naught. If this did not happen, then going to the doctor for an appointment is inevitable. Most often, the doctor makes a diagnosis of a pinched nerve, which serves as a reason for further treatment. If the doctors could not find anything bad, but you are still experiencing pain, you must try to remove it in some ways, described below.
In order to reduce the pain in the tailbone when sitting, you can do a set of exercises that are recommended for pregnant women. It would be especially nice to do exercises with a big ball. A boiled egg or a bag of salt applied to the coccyx for several minutes relieves aching pain very well - all this must be necessarily hot.
For those who prefer traditional medicine, there are also several recommendations. The best way to relieve pain for them is acupuncture. Also, if you are experiencing pain in the tailbone, do not lift heavy things and carry them around. But in this case, even a lady’s handbag is usually called a severity, so let your husband carry it for you for some time. Even if it’s very difficult and painful for you to sit on a hard one, sitting on a soft one is not recommended. It is very important to lie down more often than sitting to reduce pain. And you should not use a bandage for pregnant women - this will only exacerbate the situation.