I am 13 weeks post op and still having pain...some bleeding and painful skin tags. How long did your recovery end up taking? I am scared that this will never heal!
I had my internal hemorrhoids stitched three days ago, and I have so much pain when I have BM like I gave birth to the baby. I don't know what is going on inside but I feel so much swelling and pain. After this procedure it is saying people can go to work after 2 days and feel normal. After 3 days I cannot do anything.
I've read every post, it helped me immensely, I'm on Day 6. The pain after BM's is killing me right now, 4 hours of anus throbbing afterwards. But My hemorrhoids were so bad before the surgery, that after the surgery I felt better. My appendix exploded, oct 1, they took some of my colon and intestines out because of infection. After 2 weeks of recovering from that I developed the nasty hemmies. Tried everything to get rid of them to no avail. Went to 3 doctors the all said surgery was the only way. The pain was so bad I agreed to surgery even after reading all the horror stories. You have to be in pain to agree to this procedure. If not don't do it. I been stAying at hotel, just so no one will bother me. I go from bed, to sitz bath, to tub. I had to drive yesterday, that was a mistake. Been doing my business in the sitz bath, twice I did business in tub. In our condition, you do what you have to do, no matter how vile. I take about 6 hot baths a day, I wasn't taking then norco, but I am now, because BM pain sucks. Haven't been constipated. Been taking colace twice a day, only soup, water, fruit, oatmeal, eggs, jello, so far. Going to have tuna today. Eat very small portions. Praying, crying, all part of recovery. Good luck to all. What a nightmare!
I hope the swelling goes down to.im going on 4 weeks.im freaking out hoping the surgeon didn't screw me up.when I came home from the hospital,the nurses never told me I had gauze in my ass.so the gauze was pushing on my bladder,not letting me sleep and in horrible pain taking tramadol every 4 hrs that did absolutely nothing for pain.so I went to my family doctor to get better pain medicine.i told the doctor all I want to do his sleep and feel no pain and this pain medicine sucks and all I do is pee none stop he says that I have some gauze with ng numbing stuff that I had to pull out.so the doctor gave me some numbing medicine for when I do have a bowl movement and told me not take the stool softeners from the surgeon that they are no good to get this over counter stuff called laxaday .I finally went home pulled the gauze out slowly trying not to die got some relief from no pressure on my bladder.day 4 woke up at 400 am to try to go to the bathroom i thought I was going to die in and out of the bath still nothing but torture.its now 10am m lying on the floor telling my husband I can't do this no more I think I'm going to die,he said I'm probably have anxiety because it's day for DND nothing so I was still on the floor telling him my heart racing my head is pounding and then I just started throwing up.he rushed me to the emergency,you had to to the sitting around game tell they take your carecard and stuff.the more I sat the more I really thought I was doing,it felt like I was in a dream
So they finally got me in and husband told them about my operation and all the stool softeners that I took and that I've been up since 400am not able to go to the bathroom and crying in pain.my husband was thinking infection because the mind grain throwing up and delerium.so the hospital admitted me and gave me g fluids and more strong antibiotics it turns out low sodium from to much stool softeners
So they finally got me in and husband told them about my operation and all the stool softeners that I took and that I've been up since 400am not able to go to the bathroom and crying in pain.my husband was thinking infection because the mind grain throwing up and delerium.so the hospital admitted me and gave me g fluids and more strong antibiotics it turns out low sodium from to much stool softeners
Hi everyone, I’m one week post op and as everyone else on here says the pain is unbearable... excruciating to be honest... I had 3 large internals removed and stayed in hospital for 2 nights... Due to the pain I rang my surgeon and lucky for me I have a very good one... he told me that what I’m experiencing is normal but not very nice at all... he said that days 6 & 7 can be the worst which he’s been totally correct... write now as I right this I feel like I’ve gone backwards and not forwards... I too have a lot of swelling which looks like prolapsed ‘H’ which I’m going to ask about as that’s where my pain is... Constant throbbing... Somebody mentioned discharge and how bad it is, I’m suffering with it as well, I was told that was totally normal and will eventually stop after one to two weeks post op... In saying all this you can’t help but worry, I know I’ve been sh%t scared and still am a bit... I’ve basically decided that if I’m 2 days from now that if I’m still in so much pain I’m going to re-admit myself to hospital purely for pain relief... I hope what I’ve written can be a help and maybe someone else can give me a few tips... get well everyone
I was told to expect 2 weeks before I started to feel somewhat normal but it may take a few more weeks until full recovery. I'm now on day 8, after 6 days of misery I had two better days and here I am on day 8 and the spasms and trouble with BMs has been intense, so I was mistaken when I thought it was all going to be roses from here. I had 2 children naturally and can honestly say that the pain I was in for the first few days made childbirth feel like a walk in the park. The spasms were and still are horrendous, and I can't seem to find a balance between stools being so hard that it's like pooping rocks covered with shards of glass and razor wire or being a liquid ball of oozing burning lava. I'm still trying to find the right balance. Both glass shard rock doodoo and lava doodoo seem to be followed by intense spasms and sharp stabbing pain. I can't move, all I can do is lay there and cry while trembling in nauseating, dizzying pain. I just start to feel good and then it's time to go again and I'm quickly reminded that I am anything but suitably recovered. And now I have this horrible feeling of pressure on my tailbone. Wake me up when it's all over
Well I figured I would share my experience as reading this and other boards really helped me at times as I went through this process. The long story short is…it was awful and I had several scary “setbacks”…but it ended up ok. If you need some encouragement and you are in the middle of recovery, read.
I developed internal hemmorhoids after a bad bout of food poisoning about 15 years ago. I couldn’t go, so I forced and forced and forced, and got hemmorhoids.
I had several banded successfully, but one, which was a large one which had prolapsed, the doc said was beyond banding. I had no insurance at the time, I think he knew surgery was not an option, and so he said “you can try pushing it back in you know”.
So for the last 15 years I have pushed this BIG thing back in after EVERY BOWEL MOVEMENT. It sucked but I lived with it as there was no pain.
About two months ago it seemed my situation was getting worse. Blood, pain, etc. So I went to the (same) doctor. He examined me, found the one large prolapsing hemmorhoid, and suggested surgery. I was scheduled for surgery within the week, which was a shock. He told me to get on fiber (Metamucil), get on stool softeners, and eat soft and bland IMMEDIATELY. So I did. He told me to take mineral oil post-surgery, I did this too.
So I went in for surgery three days later, on November 9th, 2017. The surgery went ok I was told, and I walked out of the hospital that day to my car with my wife.
The first day was not awful, as the local anesthetic was still in action.
The next 10 days was exactly as bad as most other posts you will read about in these threads. The pain was amazing. I have had an old-fashioned hernia surgery, this made that seem like a hangnail. I had percocets, Alleve, and all I did was rest. IT WAS AWFUL. I’m a 38 year old man, and I cried at times, I writhed, I made deals with every god I knew the name of. The throbbing butt pain was constant and the constant nature was almost worse than the level of pain…it just never stopped and I got SO frustrated with constantly being in pain. I spent most of each day in the bathtub. I fell asleep in the bathtub many nights. The hot bath was my best friend and honestly I think it gave me as much relief as the percocets. The tiny sitz bath thing in the toilet is NOWEHRE NEAR as effective as getting in a real bath IMO.
I had my first movement about 2 days post surgery. It was no fun. Blood, pain, a gross yellow puss type fluid, all the stuff I read about. But it was soft due to all the fiber etc. They were about the same until I got on the Percocets.
My doc had told me to go as easy on the Percocets as possible, because they would back me up. But after day 3 I couldn’t NOT take them. So I went to one every 4 hours. Guess what…I got backed up. About 5 days in I felt very very backed up and pushed kind of hard while having a movement. Uh oh.
The next day I felt what I thought as another hemmorhoid. I freaked the hell out. It was big, and touching it hurt me on the inside. I googled, and I finally called my doc over 4 days later (I was being stubborn, and he was out that day). However he told me to relax, that it was likely just swelling, and to come in the next week. I went over the weekend convinced the doc had messed me up, that I had another hemmorhoid, that I’d have to have another surgery. Mentally, it was a very BAD weekend.
(However, I will say, at 10 days post surgery, my pain “broke”, almost like a fever. Like, seriously, it went from a level 9 to a 4 or 5. Almost overnight. That was a big relief, but I had still convinced myself that I was going to need another surgery, so mentally I was still very messed up.)
I went in Monday. Doc looked at it, said this is swelling. Relax. It would either go away or it would be a skin tag and he could remove that (yeah right I said in my head, no one will never go near by butt again). It had swollen so much (seriously, it was BIG) that my sutures for one of the wounds was on the OUTSIDE, and it was yellow and GROSS (this was the suture itself I discovered, not a sign of infection as I thought it was). I say ONE of the wounds as I found out then that he had actually found ANOTHER hemmorhoid in there during surgery and he had gotten that one too! OH! What a surprise!
He gently removed the sutures from the wound that was now OUTSIDE, saying they were actually hindering healing. He said that I needed to give myself time, and to keep doing everything (I begged off the mineral oil, and he said that was ok).
For the next week I maniacally tracked the size of my swelling, even as my pain continued to get better each day. It did not get ANY smaller for two freakin’ weeks. I know because I tracked it with a photo each day, hoping it would give ME hope. Finally, I stopped as the results were just depressing me so much.
I continued to soak in the bath 3-4 times a day. Movements were ok but still uncomfortable due to the swelling.
Right at about three + weeks….my swelling finally started to go down a bit. I was elated.
However, my movements, which had been fine, suddenly contained blood for a day (not a ton, but not a drop either). My brain shut down again. I thought something had gone wrong. Called doc again…relax he says. This is normal. And yup, after two days, the blood was gone for good.
My swelling continued to go down a little bit each day. I am at over 5 week post surgery now and it is down to near nothing. I don’t even think you can call it a skin tag, more like a tiny wrinkle! Thank goodness, no more cutting on the butt for me.
Right now I am just over 5 weeks out. I finally feel “normal”. I have stopped stool softeners etc, but am continuing to take fiber and I have changed my diet immensely (I will do everything to never develop roids again!)
So for people fearing the pain: I’m sorry, but you should. No way to lie about it, and no one SHOULD lie to you about it, including your doctor (you will NOT be back to work in a week!!!) . The pain is awful. And people doing more than one or two roids…I seriously salute you as it can only be worse.
But on the positive side…I had several scares, whether it was the swelling, or thinking I was infected, or the blood coming back in movements after it had stopped. They were just as the doc said. Relax and let your body heal!
So right now, I am 15lbs lighter (being scared of pooping, I was scared to eat) and can wipe my butt like a normal human being again. LITERALLY, I smile every time I have a movement now because I am not pushing anything back into my butt. I wipe a couple times and I am done. I am “normal” again, and I no longer feel gross after every movement (pushing that prolapse back in was mentally a hurdle for me, though there was no pain)
During recovery, I questioned over and over why I had done the surgery, my regret was constant. Post recovery…I feel like a new man with a new lease on life. This is a tough thing people. There is no underestimating the pain IMO. But I now think it was worth it since I am on the other side with good results.
If you do this surgery, be strong. Prep yourself for lots of pain, and expect to need way more time off than any doc or nurse tells you will be necessary.
(My tips…have a bathtub. Seriously. Slipping into hot, hot water was the biggest easer of my pain, even more than drugs IMO. I LIVED in my bathtub. Prep yourself PRE surgery by starting fiber and stool softeners days beforehand. And do your best to not let the pain or despair get into your brain too much. It’s very hard but you have to get through to the other side, and I think you can and will.)
I developed internal hemmorhoids after a bad bout of food poisoning about 15 years ago. I couldn’t go, so I forced and forced and forced, and got hemmorhoids.
I had several banded successfully, but one, which was a large one which had prolapsed, the doc said was beyond banding. I had no insurance at the time, I think he knew surgery was not an option, and so he said “you can try pushing it back in you know”.
So for the last 15 years I have pushed this BIG thing back in after EVERY BOWEL MOVEMENT. It sucked but I lived with it as there was no pain.
About two months ago it seemed my situation was getting worse. Blood, pain, etc. So I went to the (same) doctor. He examined me, found the one large prolapsing hemmorhoid, and suggested surgery. I was scheduled for surgery within the week, which was a shock. He told me to get on fiber (Metamucil), get on stool softeners, and eat soft and bland IMMEDIATELY. So I did. He told me to take mineral oil post-surgery, I did this too.
So I went in for surgery three days later, on November 9th, 2017. The surgery went ok I was told, and I walked out of the hospital that day to my car with my wife.
The first day was not awful, as the local anesthetic was still in action.
The next 10 days was exactly as bad as most other posts you will read about in these threads. The pain was amazing. I have had an old-fashioned hernia surgery, this made that seem like a hangnail. I had percocets, Alleve, and all I did was rest. IT WAS AWFUL. I’m a 38 year old man, and I cried at times, I writhed, I made deals with every god I knew the name of. The throbbing butt pain was constant and the constant nature was almost worse than the level of pain…it just never stopped and I got SO frustrated with constantly being in pain. I spent most of each day in the bathtub. I fell asleep in the bathtub many nights. The hot bath was my best friend and honestly I think it gave me as much relief as the percocets. The tiny sitz bath thing in the toilet is NOWEHRE NEAR as effective as getting in a real bath IMO.
I had my first movement about 2 days post surgery. It was no fun. Blood, pain, a gross yellow puss type fluid, all the stuff I read about. But it was soft due to all the fiber etc. They were about the same until I got on the Percocets.
My doc had told me to go as easy on the Percocets as possible, because they would back me up. But after day 3 I couldn’t NOT take them. So I went to one every 4 hours. Guess what…I got backed up. About 5 days in I felt very very backed up and pushed kind of hard while having a movement. Uh oh.
The next day I felt what I thought as another hemmorhoid. I freaked the hell out. It was big, and touching it hurt me on the inside. I googled, and I finally called my doc over 4 days later (I was being stubborn, and he was out that day). However he told me to relax, that it was likely just swelling, and to come in the next week. I went over the weekend convinced the doc had messed me up, that I had another hemmorhoid, that I’d have to have another surgery. Mentally, it was a very BAD weekend.
(However, I will say, at 10 days post surgery, my pain “broke”, almost like a fever. Like, seriously, it went from a level 9 to a 4 or 5. Almost overnight. That was a big relief, but I had still convinced myself that I was going to need another surgery, so mentally I was still very messed up.)
I went in Monday. Doc looked at it, said this is swelling. Relax. It would either go away or it would be a skin tag and he could remove that (yeah right I said in my head, no one will never go near by butt again). It had swollen so much (seriously, it was BIG) that my sutures for one of the wounds was on the OUTSIDE, and it was yellow and GROSS (this was the suture itself I discovered, not a sign of infection as I thought it was). I say ONE of the wounds as I found out then that he had actually found ANOTHER hemmorhoid in there during surgery and he had gotten that one too! OH! What a surprise!
He gently removed the sutures from the wound that was now OUTSIDE, saying they were actually hindering healing. He said that I needed to give myself time, and to keep doing everything (I begged off the mineral oil, and he said that was ok).
For the next week I maniacally tracked the size of my swelling, even as my pain continued to get better each day. It did not get ANY smaller for two freakin’ weeks. I know because I tracked it with a photo each day, hoping it would give ME hope. Finally, I stopped as the results were just depressing me so much.
I continued to soak in the bath 3-4 times a day. Movements were ok but still uncomfortable due to the swelling.
Right at about three + weeks….my swelling finally started to go down a bit. I was elated.
However, my movements, which had been fine, suddenly contained blood for a day (not a ton, but not a drop either). My brain shut down again. I thought something had gone wrong. Called doc again…relax he says. This is normal. And yup, after two days, the blood was gone for good.
My swelling continued to go down a little bit each day. I am at over 5 week post surgery now and it is down to near nothing. I don’t even think you can call it a skin tag, more like a tiny wrinkle! Thank goodness, no more cutting on the butt for me.
Right now I am just over 5 weeks out. I finally feel “normal”. I have stopped stool softeners etc, but am continuing to take fiber and I have changed my diet immensely (I will do everything to never develop roids again!)
So for people fearing the pain: I’m sorry, but you should. No way to lie about it, and no one SHOULD lie to you about it, including your doctor (you will NOT be back to work in a week!!!) . The pain is awful. And people doing more than one or two roids…I seriously salute you as it can only be worse.
But on the positive side…I had several scares, whether it was the swelling, or thinking I was infected, or the blood coming back in movements after it had stopped. They were just as the doc said. Relax and let your body heal!
So right now, I am 15lbs lighter (being scared of pooping, I was scared to eat) and can wipe my butt like a normal human being again. LITERALLY, I smile every time I have a movement now because I am not pushing anything back into my butt. I wipe a couple times and I am done. I am “normal” again, and I no longer feel gross after every movement (pushing that prolapse back in was mentally a hurdle for me, though there was no pain)
During recovery, I questioned over and over why I had done the surgery, my regret was constant. Post recovery…I feel like a new man with a new lease on life. This is a tough thing people. There is no underestimating the pain IMO. But I now think it was worth it since I am on the other side with good results.
If you do this surgery, be strong. Prep yourself for lots of pain, and expect to need way more time off than any doc or nurse tells you will be necessary.
(My tips…have a bathtub. Seriously. Slipping into hot, hot water was the biggest easer of my pain, even more than drugs IMO. I LIVED in my bathtub. Prep yourself PRE surgery by starting fiber and stool softeners days beforehand. And do your best to not let the pain or despair get into your brain too much. It’s very hard but you have to get through to the other side, and I think you can and will.)
Hi, hope u r better now . do you mean fibrosis ? Did it heal after your second operation ?
Ok.. I am 11 day’s post op.. apparently my surgery was more involved than most, as they did twohems..and the internals had become externals.. meaning one big long incision, from what I understand. They also cauterized to minimize bleeding.
First bm was most excruciating pain ever.. and I gave birth to 4 babies all over 8.5 lbs, with no pain meds.. so I feel like I have pretty high pain tolerance.. also have suffered from thrombosis hems for almost 20 years.
Day 8.. felt something working its way out and it appeared to be threads and yellowish/white flesh... it fell off, much like an umbilical cord.. and no pain while that happened. It was almost mesh like, not stitching as I had originally thought.
But now there is more hanging out... but definite stitches...and lots of swelling... and that’s sickening rotting smell, no matter how many times I shower or bath.. I’m unsure as to whether I should be getting all this cut off, or what?
I have been into emergency 2x and my dr. Once. Surgeon is away...
While the bm themselves have become somewhat easier! The burning, throbbing pain afterwards is getting worse and worse...
anyone else experiencing this combo of symptoms?
So reluctant to go to emerg if all they are going to tell me is it’s normal to have some growth with stitching come out your rear after this..
it’s usually a 3-4 hr wait at our hosp emergency dept... and sitting simply isn’t an option at this point. ugh...
hi .. it's been 6 weeks since my surgery ... still some swelling and unexplainable discomfort .. going to doc today ..
you are just 11 days post operation.. hang in there thing will get better .. just make sure ur stools are soft ... try eating purees and cucumber juice ...
I didnt have stitches though but I read in multiple forums stitches do fall out ... and yellow discharge is common.. I still see some discharge on my gauze specially after bms..
one advice is dunt loose hope the recovery isn't fun.. but it gets better week by week.... take care ...
you are just 11 days post operation.. hang in there thing will get better .. just make sure ur stools are soft ... try eating purees and cucumber juice ...
I didnt have stitches though but I read in multiple forums stitches do fall out ... and yellow discharge is common.. I still see some discharge on my gauze specially after bms..
one advice is dunt loose hope the recovery isn't fun.. but it gets better week by week.... take care ...
Curious how your doc appointment went for your unexplainable swelling and discomfort? Last week at 7 weeks post op internal/external removal I went to my doc for the same. He did a digital exam, the first and hopefully last, since my surgery. He said everything was good and that I need to exercise. Meanwhile I am following up with my integrative Doc and trying other things.
I am six days post op and my Doctor never prepared me for the excruciating pain that I have been through. I stopped taking pain meds one and a half days after surgery because I don't want to get hooked on them. I have been taking 800mg Ibuprofen, warm baths help quite a bit. I dread BM'S. My doctor never told me to stop the laxative once I ended the use of pain killers until four days after surgery I called the nurse. Plenty of water, greens, fruit etc. This is all things I had to find out on my own. My doctor is excellent at his job, but not that informative. I had a spinal and then they knocked me out. Once I woke up, five minutes after the spinal wore off, I thought I was gonna die! They hit me with Dilotted (spelling?) Percocet and Torodol. I personally would never do this again and would just deal with the skin tag I had and internal hemorrhoids never bothered me physically. I never knew I had them until a colonoscopy. The skin tag bled every time I moved my bowels, but was fine after a shower. Good luck!
Yes I was the same as you .and even three years later I still have bleeding and pain .If I could go back there is no way I would have it dun again .hope your better now God bless
Omg ...
This post could be me. I had my surgery 6 days ago.
Going to the loo feels like a near death experience. I expect to see the grim reaper sitting on the bath waiting!
The pain is outrageous, Its worse than childbirth. I am at the point where I actually cannot face going to the loo again.....
I am wondering if i might be be tolerant to the pain relief. Taking hyrocodeine which is as effective as jelly babies!
Help !!!!!
This post could be me. I had my surgery 6 days ago.
Going to the loo feels like a near death experience. I expect to see the grim reaper sitting on the bath waiting!
The pain is outrageous, Its worse than childbirth. I am at the point where I actually cannot face going to the loo again.....
I am wondering if i might be be tolerant to the pain relief. Taking hyrocodeine which is as effective as jelly babies!
Help !!!!!
Just curios if they ever went away. Lol