My boyfriend had a Hemorrhoidectomy on Thursday. they sent him home with Tylonal 3 and instructions for high fiber diet and warm baths. They said he could take fiber supplements to help with constipation from the pain meds. They didn't work and he had his first BM on sunday and wanted to be hit by a bus instead of ever feeling that pain again. I feel helpless. If anyone could give me tips to help him. I don't know the difference between stool softners and laxatives and which one he is supposed to be taking or not taking. Which is best and what is the dosage. The doctor takes a full day to get a hold of and are pretty rude. I need help so I can go get some supplies to help him. He's barely sleeping and he woke me up when he had his second BM this morning at 3:30am because he make some awful noise of pain. Please help me help him. Tips? But especially tips on pain creams, stool softners or laxatives. What to stay away from, because I'm about to go buy the whole medicine isle in Walgreens.
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1) My surgeon advised Advil is better than Tylenol for recovery. He said something about Advil helps more with reducing the swelling. I think you can take both together. Definitely ask a pharmacist though.
2) I was also prescribed hydromorphone. If there's no history of addiction maybe he can ask his doctor for something more than Tylenol 3? Honestly the hydromorphone doesn't help extremely well with the pain but it makes me fall asleep so I can at least sleep off the pain.
2) I was also given 2 laxatives (no stool softeners) - lactulose (prescription) and lansyol (over the counter). At first I took the prescribed doses of each and had explosive diarrhea..which was excruciating. I've since cut the doses in half and my stools are soft and regular and it's still painful but at least I'm no longer seeing stars and damn near blacking out from the pain.
3) Rest. Yesterday I was feeling great so I didn't take any pain meds and did some minor errands (shopping, taking my kid to the park, went for lunch) and by 4pm I was in extreme pain. I took my max dose of Advil and hydropmorphone and I was still in tears. It came in waves like labor contractions. If I didn't know any better I would have thought I was in labor....the pain was radiating up my back and down my thighs. It was similar to the 20 hours of back labor I endured when having my son.
That's all I have. Somebody else that is already healed or has more experience probably has more tips lol.
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I just had my hemmorhoid surgery over 3 weeks ago, and returned to work in the office last week after working from home. My doctor prescribed hydrocodone (325 mg) initially, but one of the side effects for this pain reliever is that it causes constipation (which is the opposite of what you want after the surgery, when they want you to have a BM within 3 days of the surgery). I requested Ibuprofen 800 mgs from my doctor, and was able to have someone get my prescriprion that same day, and the ibuprofen was 100 times better, because it didn't make me as drowsy like the other medicine did! I did sitz baths after any trip to the bathroom (as even urine has bacteria that can cause an infection), and used 4x4 sterile gauze pads with Depends diapers so I didn't have to worry about bleeding through my underwear and clothes while healing. When returning to work, I put together a small pouch with what I would need to keep my surgery area clean: Lysol wipes to wipe the toilet down; Good Wipes Rosewater Flushable Wipes from Amazon (rosewater is a natural antiseptic); 4x4 sterile gauze; and 2 Depends diapers, if I ever felt that I needed it for some reason (I didn't). When I returned to work, I would do the gauze and just wear my underwears like usual, and I bought a Cozey cushion for my desk chair (that looks more like a chair cushion than a donut) to help with sitting at my desk for long periods of time. Now I almost never need my pain meds--I'd say I take the ibuprofen 800 mg once a day, every other day or as needed. The pain is fine most of the time, but with BMs, can sometimes return (at times excruciatingly so) and make me have to take something. Overall, glad I had it done--had these dang hemmorhoids for over 10 years before they really were giving me problems (I had 3 that were removed, 2 internal and 1 external).
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