I hope you are doing better.. and how was your doctors appointment?
1. When does discharge stop?
2. 4 weeks and still painful at suture sites, when did they dissolve for everyone?
3. When did the swelling go away for everyone?
2. I didn't have sutures so I can't answer this question. but the pain will subside gradually, make sure u have a light diet and squat during bowel movements. can use 5 percent instillagel licorice gel for numbing the area before and after bowel movements.
3. I read swelling can take 3 months max to go down, but just make sure in you follow up it's swelling and nuthing else.
be patient this recovery can take much longer than we expect ... I hope u feel better soon !
btw is ur excess skin still there? i have it too. im worried it wouldnt go away.
much discomfort n itchiness because of t.
I know that people can do a hemorrhoidectomy and be fine.
I was not. If you have external hemorrhoids, just do it normally through topical means and do a liquid diet.
I had major internal hemorrhoids that extended to outside my anus.
I had so much pain, I begged for death.
I got mine October 5, 2018. 4 days later, I had a bowel movement that caused me internal bleeding that almost killed me. I went to the ER, lost so much blood, that I nearly died in the hospital. I couldn't make it to a commode to bleed out large gelatinous chunks of blood and possibly Jell-O and other soft things I was instructed to eat. Mostly blood.
After this, I underwent repair surgeries (plural, yes) and anal widenings (plural yes). I have been under anesthesia about 6 times and have had stool stuck in my anus unable to pass countless times, regardless of the stool softeners, volume of water consumed, or fibrous/nonfibrous material ingested. It was terrible. I am in February 2019 and still suffering. My anus feels like I am passing stools that are the byproduct of eating hot and spicy wings or flaming hot Cheeto bags. I am using stool softeners and I had used Depends in order to get through my life at this time. I do not know when my stool will come and when it does, it hurts and I cannot make it to a bathroom in time. I spend nights and much of a day covered in my own filth. My clothes stink and the smell of feces is hard for me to detect. I use gloves and baby wipes to clean myself and have had to tactically ingest water and use ZZZQuil to force myself to sleep at designated times.
I was prescribed Oxycodon and then Hydrocodon with Antibiotics to prevent infection, but at one point, I did have an anal infection, regardless of how much I cleaned myself with wipes, showers, and sitz baths. It was horrendous in the beginning. I was screaming and crying, begging whatever higher power exists out their to Kill me or End my suffering one way or the other. I fell in the shower one time , trying to escape the shower and bruised myself, crying, asking my stepmother to come over to my house and save me when I fell. I fell because of an unexpected bowel movement that made me bleed after the 3 week mark. I fell in my own feces.
My dignity and pride in my appearance quickly left me.
I lost 110lbs due to the restricted diet and proper eating. I removed Soda, a lot of carbs, sugary anything, lots of anything... I used to eat a lot, like enough to get me to 298. I am 188 lbs.
Last week, I had nearly fainted at work, my temperature fell to 95.6F and I slurred, etc. I got sick, had the flu, and my body's immune system was so compromised, what people could go to work with, nearly took me down in a heartbeat. I didn't even have time to know what was going on.
I have /plan/ my bowel movements now. I would pass stool and piss myself in front of people and scream because of the pain, attempting to make it to the restroom, fall down, and have to change my pants. My wife, the treasure she is, has helped me, cleaned me, taken care of me, like an angel. Had I not had her, I would not have gotten through the pain unscathed.
+5 Months, I tell you. I had it super bad. My doctor after Month 3, put his finger in my anus to test my sensitivity and how deeply he could go (less than half an inch), and I screamed in his office.
I would go back in time, beat myself up, and force myself on a liquid diet and take off a month of work, use whatever I could internally and externally to cleanse my hemorrhoids and do it naturally. Never again.
Do what you have to in order to survive. Do your best. Never underestimate what an Ensure can do for you in terms of vitamins and minerals (especially protein). Do not destroy yourself trying to quickly heal. I did and it cost me , put me in the hospital. I couldn't sleep for 4 days with the pain medication and sleep aids they were giving me. I was going insane.
When I almost bled out, my family thought I was going to die. So did I.
I hope the lot of you out there do well with your procedures if you choose to have them. Slow and steady wins the race.