Hi,

i'm 31 years old and play racquetball once a week.

About 6-8 months ago I started feeling pain in my coccyx while sitting with my weight mostly to my left side, or when lying in bed on my left side. The pain is not unbearable or disabling, but it is pretty sharp.

I had no idea what it was until one day (after about 1-2 months of the pain first appearing) while playing I crashed the left side of my body against the court's wall (which is something I used to do very frequently while playing) and immediately felt the sharp pain again, very strongly. I immediately started blaming my style of play, or at least that particular move, to my "injury". Of course i'm not 100% convinced...Which is why i'm here.

Months later, the pain's not going away, but i'm not doing anything to fix it either. I'm not crashing into walls anymore, but prolonged sitting and sleeping on my left side trigger the pain..Which subsides after a few minutes.

Also, if I touch my coccyxs and put preasure on the left side (that is, touching the left side of the little tailbone) I feel the sharp pain...It feels pretty superficial! The right side is completely painless.

I read online the rare possibility of tumors and the like. Is there a way to examine myself without having to go through mri's and rectal exams, that would suggest the cause of the pain one way or another?

Thanks!