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I have just joined this forum as I have found these blogs most comforting during the last 4 days post op. I like many others have suffered ill health in varying forms over recent years and had convinced myself that I had a HIGH pain threshold. However the echoing voices of the nurses, doctors and consultants did little to justify the actual amount of pain that I have been in. I found myself to be suprisingly jovial post op and secretly wondered if all the aforementioned accounts of pain had been written by wimps. These thoughts were slapped straight from my face upon opening my bowels for the first time, I take it all back, grown men had shared experiences of likening the pain to be worse than broken bones and worse and let me tell you they are not wrong.
I have been on a rollercoaster of emotions and as a nurse myself I am angry that medical professionals allow patients to leave the hospital under the after effects of anaesthetic without slightly dealing with the pain that their patients will experience once the anaesthetic wears off. How could you leave a patient to go home and experience this pain without professional help. One of the tips that has not been mentioned here is that of your partner/family/friend who lovingly lifts you out of the bath, fetches you pain medication and changes the dressings on your bottom, sometimes at 2.00am in the morning. There really is truth in them marriage vows of for better for worse and in sickness and in health. Love ?? him. We have joked that if our relationship was in the early days we would have parted by now as how would you expect your new partner to do that for you. These feelings of love him soon change as he brings up the large dose of lactulouse you know you have to take. Think of your bum as Jesus and it will give you some idea of how much lactulouse is the devil. I am hoping and praying as I talk the pain away in the bath that this is all going to be worth it in the end and am considering a career as a pain nurse specialist that will hunt down all those post op heamorroidechtomoy patients and arm them with a carrier bag of pain relief to take home. Oh and don't get me started on the spasms where did they come from and yes you will utter the words WHY DID I DO THIS on more than one occasion x x x
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sorebutt nicola_davern
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sara81299 nicola_davern
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Hi Nicola, I totally know your pain and hope your feeling some what better since you wrote this.
I had the surgary 15 months ago and have had nothing but trouble since.
The pain has never gone completely, I just have better days than others. I've been back and forwards to doctors, even paying privately a few weeks ago.
Still have no outcome as yet so being referred for colonoscopy next.
When I'm having a bad day which is 5 days out of 7 roughly, I'm spend most of my day in the bath, taking pain killers and crying.
The pain as you know is unbearable, and feel it's quite barbaric to let patients home knowing the pain they will endure.
Since the operation in march 2016 i have also had about 12 accidents whilst indoors thank god, and that had never happened before.
I hope your well again soon x
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