For those who had a hemorrhoidectomy, what was the pain like? Was it similar to the banding pain?
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So I've had 3 different banding litigations done. Each time after I got the banding, it felt like when you have to get to the toilet RIGHT NOW or else you will poop yourself. Except of course, I knew I didn't have to go and it was just the bands. It also hurt a bit to sit down like normal. There was definitely a throbbing kind of pain. Each time I had the bands done, the feeling of needing to have a really urgent bowel movement (that wasn't actually there) went away after 4 hours or so.
The first banding was really painful, the second two were very uncomfortable but the pain was certainly manageable. I can imagine how bad it would suck if that throbbing pain the first 4 hours after each banding stayed there for a week or two, that would definitely not be nice.
So my question is - For those of you who have had the hemorrhoidectomy, when people talk about the pain, what is the pain like? If you had the banding and the hemorrhoidectomy done, was the pain from the banding similar to what you felt when you had the hemorrhoidectomy done?
*EDIT: I realize there's a lot of threads that describe the pain of bowel movements ("like glass cutting your insides" seems to be a common description), but I haven't come across a thread that has compared the pain of a rubber band litigation to that of a hemorrhoidectomy. *
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Toddy0191 kyle2020
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NO!!!!
Completely different ball park. Banding is a little uncomfortable but the first week post haemorrhoidectomy ranked as the worst pain I've ever experienced in my 43 years on the planet!!!!
Pain where you cant breathe, feel like you're going to pass out, are shaking and have sweat dripping off your head.
Thankfully I'm 3 weeks post op and as long as don't get constipated I'm fine now and despite the initial pain it was worth it.
emma90284 kyle2020
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I've also had 3 banding experiences, plus the 4th one yesterday. The first 2 were "severely uncomfortable " during and after the procedure for a few hours. Third one, I passed out on the table from pain (doc pinched something the wrong way), was fine the day after. Yesterday, I SCREAMED and cried, in horrible pain during the whole procedure: 7 days ago I had a colonoscopy that resulted in 5 external very irritated and swollen hemorrhoids, they had barely gotten better all week and then yesterday, doc had to push them back in (he couldn't do it) to band the internal one. He said that if I couldn't handle the pain of banding, I wouldn't be able to manage the pain oh hemorrhoidectomy. He compared the hemorrhoidectomy to "crowning" in childbirth, but for WEEKS. I have had 2 kids, I barely tolerated the crowning for a few minutes, so I'm convinced I'd want to kill myself if I had to endure that for weeks and weeks. So I'm opting out of the surgery.