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A fucking hemaroid
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I'm 21 years old, just went to the doctors for a hemaroid. never had one before.
She took one look and said, it's a thrombose vein and you need surgery.
Anyway, going to the surgeon tomorrow. A quick google search yields terrifing ordeals of hemmoraging, infection, weeks of incontinence, pain during and after (requiring morphine, epidurals, etc) so I'm freaked the fuck out.
What do I do? Any other experiences here?
She took one look and said, it's a thrombose vein and you need surgery.
Anyway, going to the surgeon tomorrow. A quick google search yields terrifing ordeals of hemmoraging, infection, weeks of incontinence, pain during and after (requiring morphine, epidurals, etc) so I'm freaked the fuck out.
What do I do? Any other experiences here?
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Honestly, the procedure is what sucks the most (and it's pretty quick). It aches a little afterwards, then goes away. You'll be fine.
took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
Just soaked in a tub and applied some PrepH and put in a suppository they gave me.
Feeling around, I actually don't think it's internal... it seems to be connected or coming from my anus. (the outer part) - is this good news or bad news for my surgery?
Seriously though, it's common. Just grin and bear it.
That sounds like a pretty typical hemorrhoid.
External ones though range from annoying to debilitating. The last 2 external i've had were large. The latest being about the size of my thumb, and I got it while living alone in Korea. I spent an entire weekend locked in my apartment that was 30 degrees celsius pondering if I should cut the blood clot out myself(I didn't do it ofcourse cause that would be retarded). I've never had "Surgery". I once had the blood clot cut out by a doctor and I had wished I didn't do it afterwards. They go away after a few days.
It is a genetic thing and common. My father had his problem vein cut out and tied off and he never had one again. I've never had surgery and have been hemorrhoid free for almost 2 years now. I do exercise with squats and deadlifts on a weekly basis.
Make sure the doctor doing your surgery is reputable.
As for being worried, look... I tell everyone I take to surgery (orderly) that the only minor surgery is the one not happening to you. Being nervous is a mechanism everyone deal with in their own way. However, take heart in knowing the very last thing you will remember is "here comes the cocktail". You will be awake and not care, not care at all. In fact most of the time people stay awake (if theyre not under general) and tell jokes and shit.
You'll get a bunch of local and wont feel a thing til long after you wake up, your first bowel movement will hurt, I am sorry but it will. They will get you pretty hefty pain meds too... so don't worry about it so much. It beats having it rupture or get worse, and all the pain you feel keep in mind it's healing pain, getting better not worse.
Don't sweat the surgery though, that's definitely the easy part.
Nope. I have no relevant expertise whatsoever, and my advice should have the same filter of scrutiny and suspicion applied to it that you would (hopefully) apply to any advice you received from strangers on the internet.
You've got things mixed up a bit. Internals rarely require surgery and rubberband ligation is done for internal, not external.
Actual surgery is rare, usually it's outpatient of some type. It really depends on what grade it is.
took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
For future reference, don't poop so hard next time.
Couldnt help myself. I will say my bout with this problem never laster longer than a week and PrepH helped me out. If the Dr. says you need a Op to fix then please listen to them. Do you lift a lot of weights?
If so maybe adjust your workout from this point forward if that had anything to do with it.
G's and the Anti G straining maneuver combined to give me huge external ones. That was an awkward talk with the flight surgeon until he told me pretty much everyone in the entire command in flight status had it happen to them at least once!
So know that you are sharing the pain of most fighter pilots! and people that poop to hard.
As for prevention, I read sitting on the toilet for extended periods is bad. So no reading in the bathroom! Also those cushion rings made for sitting on also increases the risk of growing hemorroids. Which really suck because I think those are advertised to bring relief for hemorroid sufferers.
Don't know how I went about that, but yeah listen to this guy not me. I apparently suffer from dyslexia of the assparts.
Edit: It's not so much sitting on the toilet as straining on the toilet. A lot of people sit down and start reading and just sit there and squeeze and harumph and push, if it aint comin out you're doing something wrong, or you're done and need to realize that.
So.. does your ass bleed when you wipe it? Does it hurt really really bad at all times? How do I know if I have one?
I'm freaking out here!!!
Another thing to remember is to avoid strawberrys, raspberrys, and chew the fuck out of any nuts you eat unless you like rubbing sandpaper on the wound. The raspberry seeds can also get stuck in there and cause of diverticulitis which hurts really bad.
Miralax, use it, love it.
I had my first and only one a few months ago (I'm 26 btw), thanks to weight lifting and.. umm.. excessive straining bowel movements at the time. It was 'external', no bleeding or anything, and about the size of a grape at its largest. At its worst it was just a little uncomfortable when sitting and sometimes itchy. I used Prep-H, but it didn't seem to change for well over a month. I then accepted that I'd have to stop/cut down weight lifting for a time if I wanted it to go away on its own, which I did, and it did. I actually stopped using the Prep-H, so that didn't help it to go away.
So, be a lazy ass with no strenious exercise, be careful not to irritate it from sitting on it or rubbing it, don't strain too hard when taking dumps... and see if it at least shrinks a little. If it does, there is hope that you might not need surgery.