Today is day nine from surgery on two internal/external roids on each side of my anus. It has been excruciating. Beginning the might before, the drink made me violently ill so I ended up toting up as Much as I was passing. I was overdue. I am a 54 yo male and have suffered since high school. They affect my work, my gym routines ( I work out 4-4x a week). I would have extreme bleeding once or twice a year so if I was going someplace nice I would wear all black for feet of blood appearing on my trousers. And sometimes at might they would pop out and I couldn't keep them tucked. It was brutal. I have had a total knee replacement and sleep apthnea surgery so I thought, how bad can this be? The answer, worse! I agree with those that said a good pre surgery is recommended cause those first bowel movements are going to be gothic. Ten days out most of the bleeding has stopped but not the awful, smelly brown/tan mucous. Which makes the sutures sting like burning fire. I do have a recommendation. After a BM sit in a sits bath with the salt. Then dry thoroughly with a hair blower set on low. I would then unroll one of the larger size cotton balls and them fold it softly three times. I would then cut a pieces of 4" gauze about 5 inches and stretch it was out so it was very loose and gently wrap it around the unrolled cotton ball. My doctor told me to gently apply those directly over the sutures to absorb all that gross smelly mucous. The cleaner and drier the stitches are kept the faster they heal. I am still in pain hell, I have been foolish and trying to stretch an extra hour from the percs but if I let the pain get ahead of me it's really hard to catch up. Can anyone tell me how long this oozing is going to go on for? I appreciate all the stories, except the grossly hysterical ones cause it hurts my butt hole to laugh. Tomorrow is day 11, it seems like mornings and nights are worse. I hope I can turn the corner soon