Butt pain from new car seats

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JV63

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Hello all. I've recently gotten a new car and the seats are causing me discomfort in the butt bone/cheeks area. I have serious buyers remorse over the purchase so thinking it's TMS. I can sit in other cars just fine and when others sit in my new car they feel the seats are fine. In my defense I have a very bony butt :)

The interesting thing is I had back pain with the last 2 cars I've purchased which turned out to be TMS. Seems whenever I make a purchase like this I get buyers remorse for a while. This time around it's not back pain but butt pain instead. I caved in and bought a couple of different cushions but now thinking that I'm conceding to the "belief" that the seats are uncomfortable. This one is being more difficult to overcome vs. the previous 2 cars. I want to ditch the cushions but my brain is saying to me "what if this time it is the seats." Frustrating to say the least.
 
Haha - this is a good one, @JV63.

Your brain knows better than to try the old back pain trick again, so it latched on to your self-assessment of bony-butt as soon as you sat in the driver's seat and it felt ever-so-slightly different, because of course it would, right?

Sounds like a classic example of pure TMS to me! Time to get out the pen and paper and write a letter to yourself about it. Or to anyone else who influenced you in the decision, causing that good ol' repressed rage.

This too will pass. Unless you bought a c****truck, in which case you might actually be well and truly f***ed...
 
This reminds me of a recent trip with a friend of mine, himself an actual Physical Therapist, where he got into my vehicle and arranged a bunch of cushions on my passenger seat for him to sit on. When I gave a curious look, he said it helped his chronic hamstring pain to sit on this pile of cushions. Classic TMS.
 
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