Tailbone Pain & Lyme correction

[Lisa Lloyd]

Sorry! I didn't realize this newsgroup was set up under my husband's email
account. If you reply privately, please send to Li...@Quiltersnest.com

Newsgroups are new to me! Sorry!

Lisa

[RMAgricola]

Dear Lisa,

The tailbone pain you describe does occur with Lyme disease. I first heard it
mentioned at a Lyme disease conference a few years ago by Dr. Dorothy Pietrucha
a pediatric neurologist from New Jersey. It is called sacroiliitis. A couple of
people I know who had this withLyme disease had it go away with antibiotics
although in at least one case it took quite a long time. It was a symptom Dr.
Kenneth Liegner listed in his talk at the LDF conference in New York City last
weekend.

Martha A.

[Maureen Conrad]

I, too, suffer from tailbone pain to such a degree that I considered
having it removed. The pain phenomenon was called "coccydynia" (I'm not
sure about the spelling. I now suspect the doc made up the name). I like
sacriliitis better. I carried a modified doughnut around for years. I
never attributed my improvement to antibiotic therapy, but I no longer
need my doughnut (although it still feels great to sit on) and I can sit
for much longer periods before my tailbone starts the upward pain
cascade. I'll need to add this symptom to Bleiweiss' comprehensive
symptom list. I guess some might argue this is just back pain, but my
experience of it is much different than the chronic back pain I've had
with Lyme. It was another one of my symptoms that was written off as
some latent Freudian manifestation of poor toilet training. Ha Ha Ha I
just love docs so very much. When in doubt, blame the patient! And to
think we pay for such progressive thinking.

Maureen

[RMAgricola]

Dear Maureen,

Your doctor did not make up coccygodynia sorry to say. It means pain in the
area of the tailbone. The coccyx is made up of the small bones at the end of
the spine. The sacrum is part of the vertebral column or spine. However, both
sacroiliitis (inflammation of the sacrum) and coccygodynia probably describe
the symptom experienced by Lyme patient since both the sacrum and the coccyx
are probably involved. Either way it is a pain in the a__.

Martha A.