I fell on my tailbone.....Hematoma?

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So earlier today I was running inside from the rain and slipped and fell on my tailbone. I figure I prolly atleast bruised it because of the extreme pain right after and the pain in that area when bending/sitting. I have a chiro appointment for tomorrow and i think im going to ask them to take an xray to see what's up (If its broken or something I'll go to a doctor.) Now I'm icing it but my butt basically hurts. I very rarely bruise anywhere but my legs, and no bruise has shown up yet, but it's really tender especially on the left side where it's also warmer. I was reading about tailbone bruises/breaks and one guy said he had a hematoma too.....How can I tell? Will it show up on an x-ray? Do they ever resolve themselves?

Thanks!

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Hematoma = pooling or severe leakage of blood, aka bruise, and usually some sort of localized swelling too. Perhaps Gallop will chime in here with her medical knowledge. I only know from my own and my horse's injuries. 

The horse had a swollen area a little bigger than l could cover with my hand, just below the point of her rump. The vet said it was hematoma, a pooling of blood between the layers of fascia, between skin and muscle.

I've had two diagnosed hematomas 
(hematomae?). One was from a very bad buck-off. My friend who witnessed it said that I was 3 feet above the saddle when I started to come down. Apparently the medial side of my knee hit the cantle on the way down. It blew out a blood vessel and most of my lower leg filled with blood - one doozy of a bruisey! As it healed, it went through some technicolor stages. My husband called me his colored girlfriend, as the various colors shone through my pale skin.

The other one was a result of a mini donkey resisting getting his hooves trimmed. He kicked out and nailed me inside my wrist. It popped up immediately like a purple half-egg and scared the stuffing out of me. That one resolved within a couple of days, but I got ice on it within 10 min.

If you don't have a bruise, you don't have a hematoma (in my non-medical opinion).

I fell on my tailbone.....Hematoma?

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