5 weeks post hemorrhoidectomy and still so much pain!

Hello, & thank you for responding to me! I am also sorry you had to have this awful surgery. Yes, my dr has me on Percocet for the pain and I often have to take 2 at a time to have any relief. It takes about 2 hrs for them to kick in and they wear off in about 4, but I'm still glad I have them, it is the ONLY relief I get, even temporarily, and I know I'm lucky to have them. Some barbaric drs won't give you any pain meds. I also take 2 stool softeners daily. I alternate between that one day, to a dose of miralax the next. I havent really been constipated but a few times. I work really hard at having soft, formed bm's. I'm with you, all I do is rest and drink. (and try to figure out what I can eat that won't hurt me.) Thank God my work is not pressuring me to return yet, there's no way I could anyway. So you are about 8 weeks post op and feeling ok already?

Just make sure the any pain killers you take dont have codeine as they can constipate you..If they do just have the stool softner and lots of drinks. I feel much better, I was off work for like two months though because 1 month after the opp, I got constipated which brought me down quite a bit. Then got a small fissure! Within 4-5 weeks I could tell the difference and felt better, with no stinging / sore sensation.

Enjoy day time tv!

No codeine in my pain killers and I since I dont take more than 2 a day, I also take 2 stool softeners to balance it out. Dr says since external area looks mostly healed my probs must still be internal and I could have internal fissure, etc that he cant see without an internal scope, which he'd have to do in the O.R. to use anesthesia because the pain of the scope is too great otherwise. Im itching almost nonstop (internally) and no creams Ive tried stops it. It drives me mad. I dont know if it means the inside is healing or that its a fissure. I heard they can make you itch really bad.

So you got diagnosed with a fissure at week 4 and by week 8 you no longer have stinging/soreness/itching/pain from it al all? I dont know how u couldve went back to work if you still had those probs, especially if they were coming from a fissure. OUCH!!!

Thats good news for you then..Externally its healing well. For the fissure, these normally sort themselves out and you can get creams for it which are soothing. My GP gave me one called Fuicidin so that the fissure does not get infected. Also That way you dont need the internal scope which will be horrible!!!

Yer week 4 or week 5 I got a small fissure which was a bit sore. But from week 6 lets say, I woke up one morning and felt like I had a new bum lol. No pain, no soreness, nothing. It was amazing. I took 2 months of work. I didnt want to rush going back until I was 100%.

Give yourself a few weeks and you too will start to see the difference. You focusing on the main things that you need to be..Just rest up

My surgeon gave me a nitroglycerin cream-$600 for a tube. I didnt fill it. I may see if my Gp will call in a cream to help my severe itch. Also, my butt feels extremely hot all the time, between the cheeks, even after Ive had a washcloth soaked in ice cold water and sqeezed out between my butt to numb it. Why would it still be so hot when a cold cloth has been there? Is that a sign of something bad or just normal heat?

did you pay $600 for a cream?? creams in the uk cost around £10!! Not sure why your bum feels hot to be fair, could just be because your sitting on it / lying down all day? I wouldnt worry to much about that. Use the cold compressions if that helps...But your doing all that you can so now just try and let time heal it. Very easy to get depressed in this state, I did feel down at times but things get better, believe me 😃

Thank you, Jane, on your fasting idea. I see my surgeon today for my 5 week checkup and I'll ask him about it. I went on an all liquid diet at first: soup broth, gatorade, water, and all I got was diarrhea. That was just as bad, so no more liquid diets. I've done the dry toast, plain rice, banana diet the dr put me on to stop the diarrhea: and it constipated me. So I stopped it. Raw veg and salads and all that roughage is hard for me to digest, always has been, so I can't even eat the healthy, light foods they say to eat. UGH! I'm tired of my own complaints. My hubby keeps telling me to be patient, that this, too, will pass (I'm just afraid I'll be one of those people who take 6 mos to a year to fully heal and that terrifies me and breaks my heart for my family.) I will put a reply post on here tonight after my 5 week checkup to let ya'll know how my fissure is healing and how everything else looks. THANKS!!

i hope it helps, please do post an update. It is all useful information

So I go back in 3 weeks to see surgeon. Outside surgical site from 3 hemi removals looks nearly healed, but internally is still problematic. Red, raw, tender, painful, etc. He said without doing an internal scope he cant say for sure whether there’s an internal fissure, probs with the 2 internals he left in, or just taking longer for my insides to heal than the outsides. He said I wouldnt make it through an internal scope without anesthesia, so that’d be another trip to the OR. I told him I dont want that if at all possible, so Im doing another 3 weeks of ointments, pain pills, rest, sitz baths, & trying to control my bm’s to allow the insides to heal (Im working really hard on that part.) I cant see him till Jan 3rd because of the holidays, so thats it. 3 more weeks of this and if no better, back to OR for internal scope. Im obviously just one of the “unlucky ones”. Plz pray for my internal healing so that I dont have to go back to the OR in 3 weeks for an internal scope to see whats going on inside. I pray to God its not an internal fissure. Thank you for listerning. I Sure wish I had better news.

I would do the same you are doing, try to get through the three weeks to avoid another procedure. One thing is for sure, you are not alone in your plight. When I was going through the peak of recovery we actually considered opening up a chat room just to provide reciprocal support.

Hi, my diet right now is whatever I can eat or drink that wont give me diarrhea or constipation. Its different each day, & what works for one is a nightmare for others. I never was given laxatives, but I bought miralax and take it (1/2 capful in 8 oz water) every other day. The other day I lay off the miralax & take 2 stool softeners...but never laxative & softeners on same day...I learned the hard way I'll be on toilet all day. I drink 64 oz water daily, cant eat any raw veg or even cooked (diarrhea), no salads or soups or stews (diarrhea) no rice or stuff like chili, spaghetti, anything acidic (constipated or very painful bm's). I try to eat a small pk of oatmeal for bfast to keep me regular, lunch i usually just drink gatorade with maybe a handful of saltines (plain), supper i try to find something that wont make me go or I just have an ensure with more water and/or gatorade. Its not ideal, I know, but if I dont stop using toilet multiple times a day, my inside is never gonna heal. Im at the point that after all the pain the bm's have caused me, Id rather be hungry than full and pooping.

post surgery i was given Laxido and Senekot, laxido, in addition for pain relief i was give a narcotic, IBprofin and paracetamol felt awful taking 3 sachets of laxido a day, by the 3rd day i was pooing pretty much every time i moved, lost all dignity as i gave up going to the toilet because it became soul crushing i'd go toilet pass wind some diarriha would come out and as soon as i cleaned up and go back same urge would come again.. when that happens several times an hour you give up... but what i found was that my first actual solid bowel movement which came 6 days after surgery was not painful, felt strange and relieving but not painful.

My mistake was to then completely stop the laxido and i didn't have a proper solid poo again for another 8 days, that was only made easier because i started taking movicol...