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Hemorrhoid recovery experience... getting me down majorly

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kai35139
kai35139

So I’m on night two after my hemmariod surgery, I’m in absolute agony and cannot sleep! I can’t take any more medication as I’ve had the limit for today... does anyone have any tips? the GP or hospital never said the recovery would be this painful... I’m currently in my lounge having a tea as I cannot sleep, laying down seems to aggravate the wound more... any tips and advice on reducing pain would be great and also how long before you felt ease of pain from this surgery. 

Thanks in advance!

Kai

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  • sez123
    sez123 kai35139

    Posted

    Try an ice pack. Sit on it 

    It will give you more localised pain relief 

    It gets better. Hang in there

    • kai35139
      kai35139 sez123

      Posted

      Ok I will try that now, it’s woke me up in pain again. Thank you. 
  • teresa34100
    teresa34100 kai35139

    Posted

    The only brief relief for me was the sitz baths, every time the pain felt too much I’d sit in the warm water for 15 mins. Nobody warns you about the extent of the pain, I guess because nobody would go ahead with it if they did. It will get better though I promise and you have to hang on to that. I started feeling human around day 12, but you will have periods before that, for me from day 6/7 where it was one step forward and two back. It’s a brutal op, that’s for sure. Hang in there, it does get better.
    • kai35139
      kai35139 teresa34100

      Posted

      Thank you for your reply, is the Sitz bath just warm water or with salt? They really don’t, I thought I’d be in hospital with pain like this! I’m hanging on to hope that it will get better just feels like it won’t but time is a healer..
    • teresa34100
      teresa34100 kai35139

      Posted

      Sorry I was probably misleading when I said the warm water gave relief I meant they took me from an 11/10 to a 10.5/10 for a few minutes and stopped me from howling. I too felt I should be in hospital, but by that stage I couldn have got in the car and certainly couldn’t have been examined. In desperation,, over the phone,  my gp gave me Oramorph a liquid version of morphine and even that didn’t touch the pain. I also had diazepam, which helped with the anxiety.  I’m sorry but it was for me just counting hours and days and nights until it was still painful, but bearable. It will come, I promise, however bad it is now, you will feel better. I wish I could help more.
  • mary90364
    mary90364 kai35139

    Posted

    Hi, hope your feeling better. Drink plenty of water and have a high fibre diet. Do not force the BM, the water and high fibre diet should make your BM easier. I was give fybogel and lactulose to take for the BM. Pain I had paracetamol and dihydrocodeine for the pain.
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