Hemroid surgery an option?

I am a college student i have been dealing with hemmoroids + anal warts for the past three months, although my doctors insist they arent hemmoroids i know they are and i had a surgery to burn off the warts and WOW the pain i felt from a bm. I consider my pain tolerance pretty high and it damn near brought me to tears. Its been two weeks since the surgery and my perscription of percocet have run out and i was so uncomfortable last night i couldnt sleep untill 8am. This whole experience is the worst thing i have ever dealt with.

I just had surgery today for 1 of 3 internal hemmoroids that I didn't even know I had. I went in to have an external hemmoroid removed that feels huge and hurts. After doing some research on line I opted for this new banding technique which supposedly is the least painful. Basically the doctor sucks the hemmoroid into a tube then slides a small elastic band around the base of it. In 48 hours it will (hopefully) just fall off. While there is some discomfort it doesn't seem to be nearly as painful as many of the other sufferers. Might want to check out banding. I went to the Center for Colorectal Health. I'll need to return a couple of more times since they only due 1 at a time.
Good luck.

I had surg in August to remove internals (inflammation was annoying at worst) and an external, which was literally acting like a valve down there...sometimes I could go, sometimes not, sometimes kinda. I thought I'd have a two-for-one surgery (had lypoma as well...benign)...and get this little annoyance out of my life.

IF I HAD KNOWN...of the pain during recovery...I would have not had surg.
IF I HAD KNOWN...I would have eaten very little in the days before...I knew a BM would hurt, but man!
IF I HAD KNOWN...they would come back WORSE I would have not had surg.

I was crying every time I even thought of going for at least a week (mind you I have given birth naturally...I'm not a wimp)...I knew it would be painful, but not to the point where with every gas bubble I would break a sweat and uncontrollably whimper in pain (and a scream or two).

Please, if you can live with a minor inconvenience and they do not seem to be getting worse, DO NOT HAVE SURGERY!!! I had mine banded...or so the Dr. says. I know I was cut somewhere b/c of the pain...but I never remember passing anything that would have resembled them.

Surgery can make them worse, and the pain is NOT worth it...for you or your wallet (even w/ insurance)!

I felt exactly as you for the first week following surgery. On the second week the extreme pain subsided and was replaced with moderate discomfort. I had both good and bad days on week two. And it was depressing because stool was constantly leaking until the end of week four where afterwards I have days with and without leakage.



My body was wracked by the experience and healing was slow, but steady. I'm 54 years-old so that may have something to do with recovery.



I blew off the post surgical follow-up exam with my surgeon. There was no way I was going to let anyone stick anything in my rear. But I'm going to see him next week.



Yesterday (4 weeks post op) I wanted to see for myself what was happening in my rectum so I used an illuminated magnification mirror and was startled to see the scar tissue and still-healing wounds. And I was somewhat alarmed to see a mass of tissue that resembled a hemorrhoid accumulating around my anus. I don't know what he cut out but judging by all the wound and scar tissue he had to cut out something of substance. Also, I don't feel the same protruding mass sticking out like before.



Thank God for narcotics. Percoset and my own personal supply of Vicodin got me through two weeks of pure suffering. Even with the painkillers the pain and discomfort was significant.



The sitz baths and the bidet were lifesavers.



The surgery was followed by four weeks of stool leakage. I was afraid this was never going to end but alas, the last couple days I have been able to dispense with the non-stick gauze I placed against my anus to prevent this most nasty occurrence.



My doctor didn't prepare me for the recovery. I thought I would be on my feet the next afternoon following surgery. Wrong! I was off my feet for two weeks. I spent days and nights on the toilet where I couldn't pass a stool and urinate. While sitting, the pain was so overwhelming I was on the verge of losing consciousness, feeling waves of nausea and the urge to vomit.



All said, the healing has progressed and I'm feeling very good.



The post above makes some good points. Eat as little as possible before surgery because you will pay for it later. Fruit, vegetables, soup and fiber will make life much easier. A soft stool is better than a watery one (which hurt like Hades).



I removed alcohol from my diet. What a difference. Not only did I lose 13 pounds in three weeks, but my bowel movements have become normal for the first time in ten years. And my blood pressure dropped.



Good luck.

I'm not sure which post it has me replying to.. but I have a question for anyone who has had hemorrhoids and can give me some sort of advice. I'm a 29 year old male, who's been experiencing the sensation of something in my anus. It's not painful. Just weird.  It does occasionally burn after a bowel movement, with a Hot/Cold, raw feeling. There's been no blood present in my stool, but this sensation of a lump or something in my anus that I've been feeling for about 3 weeks now.  This all seemed to start after about 3 days of constipation. I had been eating popcorn every night and that always tends to stop me up.  But the kicker was, after I had eaten at an Indian restaurant. I had possibly the spiciest food I had ever eaten in my life.. A day later, this happens.  I also sit in a rather hard chair at work for 3-4 hours on end, with little to no breaks.  I know every sign leads me to believe that this is an internal hemorrhoid, but all the websites I've read said, you don't feel anything with internals.  Could I possibly have non-bleeding internal hemorrhoids?

Thanks for your time,

Brett

popcorn at night, sitting on a hard chair for hours, 3 days of constipation, spicy food... Yes it's possible to be an internal hemorrhoid in the very early stages so the bleeding has not come, or an anal fissure from the hard, burning feces, or both. A couple of suppositories may help. Still good to get it diagnosed.