THD hemorrhoidectomy works!

Well I can't say the same. I have had surgery a week ago and I feel like boiling water has been poured through me.I have taken 4 different medications for pain and still have terrible pressure and pencil like bowel motions. Frequent bowel movements with associated mucus.

I'm going to be heading in for THD Surgery in about a month's time. I made the wrong decision and read all of the Horror Stories on the Web based on people's reviews after the Surgery and wound up scaring the absolute c**p out of myself. It was only after giving myself panic attacks over the upcoming Surgery that I realized my mistake.

By reading people's reviews on here who have suffered post-operative complications I'm taking a completely skewed Sample. First, most people who have had this Surgery are not going to post a Review on it. They will simply have the Surgery and move on with life. The people who have complications are the ones that will be searching for information online and likely leave a Horror Story or two about what to expect.

Second, you have no information regarding the Sample Size of these Operations. Some people are not going to have good results following Surgery. Moreover, you have no idea as to the Anal Problems that the person had going into the Surgery and most of the people complaining you have no idea why they were suffering pain Post-Op for such lengthy periods of time. They could have developed a Fissure or something and just not note it down.

So to get a more accurate picture I started reading the Scientific Studies that you can find online where Doctors took a Sample Size and performed this Surgery on all of them and wrote down the post-operative results.

When you look at any one of the Studies like that you realize quickly how small of a chance you've got of dealing with post-operative complications because of this Surgery as opposed to how you feel after reading all the Horror Stories on this Thread.

We're not allowed to post URLs in this Thread so for those that want to look at the Study Groups simply do a Google Search and see what you come up with.

For most Studies that I've read, for Post-Operative Pain 20% of people had pain immediately following Surgery and needed Pain Killers. Of that 20%, 5% needed Pain Killers for longer than 3 days. Usually 0 - 1% of people needed Pain Killers past 10 days Post-Op.

Post-Operative Bleeding happened in about 8% of people in the Studies that I've read.

Tenesmus was reported in about 20% of people Post-Op (about the same for pain) but this seemed to always drop down to 10% at the end of the first week and completely disappeared by the end of the 3rd week. Which is what most Doctors who provide this Operation state as part of the Healing Period. Healing can last any where from 3 days to 3 weeks.

When comparing THD to the Traditional Hemorrhoidectomy the difference between Post-Operative Pain is significant. Same when compared to PPH or Stapled Hemorrhoidopexy. In fact, being that I'm in Canada, most Doctors refuse to perform the Traditional Hemorrhoidectomy unless significant External Hemorrhoids were present (the only surgical treatment for large External Hemorrhoids is to cut them off). In Canada, PPH has also been replaced with TDH because TDH has much less Post-Operative Pain and the percentage of complications following TDH Surgery is extremely low when there's all kinds of problems you could have following PPH.

"Most" of the complications arising from TDH Surgery also become more apparent when using this Operation on Stage 4 Prolapsed Hemorrhoids as opposed to Stage 3 or 2. However, most Doctors now when Operating will combine a Plexi (stitching the prolapsed Hemorrhoid Tissue) back into place after Arterial Ligation. This significantly reduces the re-occurrence of Prolapse. I'm willing to bet that the people in this Thread that are complaining about an External Hemorrhoid or something else protruding from their Anus following this Operation didn't get the Plexi performed when they probably should have.

So with those Numbers it should make a lot of people feel a lot safer if you are reading these Reviews. You have an 80% chance of not experiencing any pain Post-Op. If you do experience Pain Post-Op within 3-4 days you have a 95% chance of the pain dropping to a level where you don't need Pain Killers. If after 3-4 days you do still experience pain upon defecation then you have a 99% chance that this pain will disappear between 7-10 days.

When comparing pain in with people who have undergone PPH there is also like an 8-10% chance of having chronic pain following Surgery. The Doctor needs to know exactly what they are doing when they perform PPH because if you put the Line too high or too low it leads to a completely different set of problems.

You have a 92% chance of not having significant bleeding Post-Op. Based on this though you only have a 2% chance of needing to be readmitted to the Hospital because of Blood Loss. In some of the Studies I've read you have an 18% chance of experiencing massive blood loss following PPH Surgery and about the same (18-20% chance) following Traditional Surgery.

Unfortunately, you do have an 80% chance of having Tenesmus following Surgery. This is the feeling that you need to have a Bowel Movement really badly when you don't need to. This lends itself to a feeling of Urgency even when all you've got built up inside of you is a very little bit of Stool or even Gas. This is what you've read in these Reviews about people needing to use the Toilet 8 times or more a day. The Urgency that people talk about saying that they feel that they only have a minute or two to find a toilet after the urge hits. This is also what people in these posts are reporting as feeling incredibly backed up and needing to take drastic measures to have their first Bowel Movement following Surgery.

Staying with Tenesmus, keep in mind that many people, even with Laxatives, experience constipation for 1-5 days when waking up from Anesthesia and that this gets worse when you are taking large amounts of Pain Killers since Opiates slow your GI Tract to a crawl.

You should also know that with Tenesmus you simply have the Urge to have a Bowel Movement immediately but when factoring in fecal incontinence there is pretty much a 0% chance of that happening. Meaning that you can hold it till you find a Toilet and you will be able to hold it for longer and longer as you proceed past the point of the Operation.

When you compare Tenesmus and Fecal Incontinence in with PPH the amount of people experiencing it is much higher than THD and there are like 8% of people that actually wind up with Fecal Incontinence.

For me, after doing all this Reading, I feel a lot more confident approaching this Surgery than I did before. Right now my life is pretty much a living Hell. Every Bowel Movement hurts, I always feel like I've got to have a Bowel Movement, the amount of pressure in my Rectum is also putting pressure on my bladder so I've got to Pee like every 20 minutes. Also, the only position that I seem to be comfortable in for a long period of time now is on my back in bed. It's February 7th today and I've been pretty much on Bed Rest since the beginning of 2016. I'm just trying to keep myself calm long enough now to go through with this Surgery. Every day is such a Challenge that I'm absolutely exhausted right now. I just need to get this Surgery over with so I can start feeling better.

I did my THD 7 days ago in a Dubai after 20+ years of problems! Stayed the night in the hospital and had problems to pee after surgery. Finally happened and I got some got meds to sleep. Went home the following day and relaxed, didn't take any painkillers at all and was feeling pretty ok. Since I had a Colonoscopy I was totally emptied out and I guess that was a good thing as I could work like normal on the second day and had my first BM on the third day! I can't say it was pleasant and it did take some time, but in the end all went well! Now a week later I'm like a new man, don't have to worry about bleeding, pain, squatting or even just walking around like I constantly had to do before!
I'm off all meds and eat a normal high fiber diet and can't thank this surgery enough!

Get it done now. You don't want to know how much worse it WILL eventually get.