Would you have hemorrhoidectomy AGAIN?

Hi did you decide to get it done and if so was it worth it for you? Is the pain unbearable I'm so scared to go through with surgery :(

I have also had the stapling and am having problems with bowel movements. Mine were fine the first three weeks of recovery and then it was like a switch was switched and now I have gas and pencil stools. It doesn't matter what I eat or drink. I am sick of hearing about fiber and drinking water. It doesn't help at all. I wish I would have had them totally removed. I was afraid of the pain but I had the worst pain of my life with the stapled hemorrhoidectomy. I was on morphine for two weeks.

I had mine done 3 months ago. Two external and one internal. I unfortunately did not ask enough questions and trusted my surgeon who while very nice did not do the job of informing me what I was in for. One of my two external hemorrhoids would swell up daily and thus needed something done with it. However, the other external did not swell and the internal one I did not know I even had. Going into the surgery I thought it was just the removal of some skin and was not a big deal. Well, it is a big deal and I am still having inflammation and pain 3 months later primarily from the internal removal. My surgeon says everything looks good, however not much feels good at this point. My advice is avoid this if you can and if you must then only remove those that are giving you troubles. I thought the other two being taken out would not be a problem but now I wish i could go back in time and change my decision/thought process. Surgeons need to do a better job of explaining just more than the pain aspect of the operation (which was tolerable) its the lack of cushioning the hemorrhoids provide which can help keep things from leaking as well as the weird feeling of your new exit hole without them. The damage to the nerves down there so that now you don't know if the pressure you feel is just air or something else. While hemorrhoids are unpleasant, they are better to manage unless you cannot anymore vs having them cut out. I traded 5 or 10 minus each day taking care of them for something that now bothers me most of the whole day! Not quite the outcome I was told to expect!

Thank you so much for your feedback and suggestions. I havr been debating, and scared to death to go thru with it. Ppl ahve said its worse tha labor and I know how bad giving birth was so that freaked me out even more. I have high tolerance in pain but I think my worry is the recovery. I definitely dont want to take more than 2 weeks worth of my vacation so I'm a bit on a fence abt taking 2 whole weeks of "vacation" as supposed to some emergency surgery that I can come up with without having to use vacation pay. I work from home as an executive assistant mostly work standing up because Im more comfortable working standing up. Do you think that will be a problem while recovering? I understand it takes completely a whole month to be recovered. What are your thoughts?

I know it's been 5 months, so maybe you already did it. But I had to do it about 2 months ago; mine were terribly strangulated. I'm glad I got it done! Yes, the most pain I've ever experienced, but mine were already that painful! The first 2 weeks, as predicted by my surgeon, after surgery were super miserable, but then, about the 12th day, the pain suddenly dropped off. Not gone, but SO MUCH better. Even with the hydrocodone and Tylenol, it was rough. Three warm/hot baths a day with Teal's Epsom salt (Amazon) with witch hazel and eucalyptus helped take the edge off the pain a bit. Doctor said 15 minutes; I just stayed in for 45 minutes or more, trickling hot water in the tub to keep it hot. Most days, at 1st, I probably took 4 or more baths to help with the pain. Might as well, it was uncomfortable to do anything else.
Please note! Hydrocodone tends to make constipation WORSE! So, I skipped it in favor of Tylenol as much as possible. Basically, I only took the codone AFTER a bowel movement, because the 1st one is super painful, and for a couple weeks or so, the following ones are just somewhat a easier.
Also, SUPER important to get up and walk around every day, as much as you can tolerate; it stimulates bowel movements. The more you sit, especially before that 1st movement, the worse the constipation can be. I literally made my self go to the grocery store, after the 1st 5 or 6 days, and do some light shopping so that I had no choice but to move! I REALLY should have been up moving more. I found that at home, it was too easy to give in to the discomfort and sit around. Because I didn't move, and probably took too many consecutive cycles of hydrocodone the 1st 3-4 days, it took SEVEN days to have my 1st bowel movement.

Despite all that, I've been SOOO much better off since then.