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Alistair

Alistair

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Ok, here's my first problem. Since I've come home from the hospital, I've had a problem with hemorrhoids. My guess is it is from all the coughing I did just after surgery. I hated to look myself but squatting down with a hand mirror I see it is two swollen hemorrhoids. I've tried Preparation H, cold water (from the fridge) on a washcloth, cold water from the removable shower-head. I get a little relief, but it just won't go away.

Monday, I have to go to my GP's office for an INR test and I really hate to ask him about this. Any advice???
 
Alistair said:
Ok, here's my first problem. Since I've come home from the hospital, I've had a problem with hemorrhoids.... Monday, I have to go to my GP's office for an INR test and I really hate to ask him about this. Any advice???
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I don't know anything about hemorrhoids, but I do know that if you can't ask your General Practitioner about them, you need a new GP! I mean, if you can't ask "the doctor who knows a little about everything" about a really common problem, what good is he for?
 
Alistair said:
Ok, here's my first problem. Since I've come home from the hospital, I've had a problem with hemorrhoids. My guess is it is from all the coughing I did just after surgery. I hated to look myself but squatting down with a hand mirror I see it is two swollen hemorrhoids. I've tried Preparation H, cold water (from the fridge) on a washcloth, cold water from the removable shower-head. I get a little relief, but it just won't go away.

Monday, I have to go to my GP's office for an INR test and I really hate to ask him about this. Any advice???
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The drugs we take for pain can be very constipating which can add to the problem ... Are you using a stool softener? ... That may help ... And forget being embarrassed ... Your doc has seen them before and they are always in the same place:)
 
I've just never bent my arse over for anyone to look at, that has no reflection on my GP. I did take stool softeners while in hospital; constipation was really not my problem. I do believe it was all the coughing that brought this on. I cough very little now but each time I do, it's my toosh that hurts and no wonder with two almond size hemorrhoids. <that warrants a frown face, but I haven't yet figured out how you guys put the faces on your text>
 
It is important to tell your GP, especially as you are on warfarin, you really don't want them to start bleeding. The bleeding is a problem two-fold, it is both messy and an increased risk of infection.

Get them sorted. I first bared my backside to my GP when I was a teenager, he prescribed suppositories which worked, they had steroids in them.
 
If they are external try some cream for lubricant and pack them back in:eek: ... that will help the pain and allow the reduction in size.

And when you are posting look to the right and just click on the "smiles" you want.
 
I agree with others -- you need to be comfortable enough with whoever your GP is to tell him/her about this problem. After all, there can be even more "embarrassing" maladies to talk about, that need medical treatment.

Is it a gender thing? When I first moved here, I was assigned a young female doctor in the local family practice office. She seemed to be very smart, but eventually I asked myself if I would be comfortable in doing a show and tell for certain male problems -- prostate, for example? I decided that no I wouldn't, and so switched to an older male doc who is far less easy on the eyes but who would be more in the comfort zone should that kind of problem ever arise.

Anyway, that's just a long-winded way of saying you need to be comfortable enough with your GP to talk about any problem, even those down where "the sun don't shine." :D
 
don't know if they do it in the USofA, but my father gets his "banded". A hemorrhoid(sp?) specialist does it, it is done in his office, I think, maybe a treatment room in a hospital. All they do is tie something like an elastic band round the bit that sticks out, and without the blood source, basically they wither and fall off. Apparently almost painless!
 
I just love these bodily function threads......ha ha.
Tucks medicated pads, fantastic, especially over nite.
Prep H, and sitz baths all helped me.
after I gave birth, I had a good clump of "almonds".

Alistair, you will only see the smileys when you use "post reply" , or start a thread. they are not available on the quick reply. They are on the right, just click on one.
 
Proctologists are great people; it sounds like you should meet one. Mine said to me, roughly eight years ago, "The good news is that you don't have hemorrhoids; hemorrhoids don't hurt that bad." He diagnosed something else, for which he did surgery, and fixed me right up.
 
Superbob said:
Is it a gender thing?
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Bob, if by gender you mean sexist - perhaps. My wife wanted a look see and the answer was an unequivocal NO. A sitz bath would be out of the questions since my surgery was just over a week ago. I still have the incision to the left of my groin.

I will probably just have to bit the bullet and ask my GP. Talking about the subject is fine. It's the "bend over and let me have a look" that is hesitation. :mad:

Ok, what I was doing wrong on the faces is click and drag rather than just click.

I thank you all.
 
Preparation H and sitz baths. Get some warm water in the tub and sit with a small towel rolled between your cheeks. I've had this problem especially since taking vicodin post surgery (not ohs). The suppository preparation H works very well if you can look at it objectively as a necessary, medical thing. :D
 
Alistair said:
Bob, if by gender you mean sexist - perhaps. My wife wanted a look see and the answer was an unequivocal NO. A sitz bath would be out of the questions since my surgery was just over a week ago. I still have the incision to the left of my groin.

I will probably just have to bit the bullet and ask my GP. Talking about the subject is fine. It's the "bend over and let me have a look" that is hesitation. :mad:

Ok, what I was doing wrong on the faces is click and drag rather than just click.

I thank you all.
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You have had OHS .... everybody saw everything ... may or may not have made jokes:rolleyes: ... How do you spell relief? ..... Bend over:D
 
Dont forget to keep doing everything you can to keep your motions soft :eek:...as hard stools can lead to more of those dreaded 'roids :eek: Prunes, figs , water and fibre are your friends. For a few weeks until the meds from anaesthesia leave your system and you are off pain meds.
 
Cooker said:
You have had OHS .... everybody saw everything ... may or may not have made jokes:rolleyes: ... How do you spell relief? ..... Bend over:D
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That's pretty funny Cooker, and true. In fact, I became known on my floor as the guy who hated the "hospital gown"...the most ridiculous thing every invented. With all that was going on with my body (tubes, IV's, bandages, etc.) I was very quick to just let that robe fall to the floor many many times. Modesty was my last concern.;)
 
I sometimes get a flareup of 'roids when I've been thinking too much. (I tend to spend too much time on the potty thinking, reading, and even playing electronic backgammon...it's my special room:D)

They usually take their time going away but they do. As others have suggested, relief comes with Prep H and Tucks.

Show the Doc...only you care or can be embarassed...they're immune.

Cheers,

Jim
 
I personally didn't have OHS but when you give birth it is very common and very fixable :) I agree about the stool softner, it was something that the DR prescribed for my hubby after his OHS but you can get it over the counter and much cheaper too. One of his GREAT nurses explained to him the importance and how it is very easy to strain after surgery and how it helps.
 
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