Hemorrhoidectomy - My experience

Day 1: I had the hemorrhoidectomy procedure competed at 11am. it was the surgical closed type with stiches that are supposed to be absorbed into my body. I was put the general anesthesia. I woke up with a pain of only 2 (1-10 scale, 10 being worst pain of my life). I only felt pain (3) when moving. I have not had a BM today, after surgery, and I have only liquids send a jello. I feel tired but i oddly not that sleepy. update to follow tomorrow

Day 2: Did not sleep well last night. it might have been cause my pain has increased. I now have a constant 4 pain. I guess all the drugs that I had during my procedure have worn completely off. Still no BM. I started the sitz baths. but honestly while it feels good while sitting in the bath I have noticed that my pain increases once I get out. I hoping that this is just due being in the squatting position and that my body will adjust, I hope. I am also starting to have anus spasms which spike up the pain to a 6. they are not frequent but still really hurt. today I just drank a lot of water, and some juice. I ate a yogurt, apple sauce, and a banana. tomorrow I will have 100 Bran cereal because even though I am dreading it, I was told that I need to have a BM soon. 😩 I am also keeping up with my drugs which are just Tylenol 3 (w/ codine), lidocaine 5%, and a stool softener. honestly I don't really feel like pain reducing drugs actually do anything but I will take them anyways. am hoping that my pain does not increase tomorrow. thanks

Day 3: again I did not sleep well, but was still a little better than the day before. the pain is also a little less today,, but that may be cause I started staggering ibuprofen with my prescribed Tylenol 3. I did not run this by my doctor I just needed to do something more with the pain. am going to bed tonight with a little more pain than this morning but this may be cause I perhaps over did the physical activity today. I did a long walk and then I had to drive myself to store. the pain did increase after. I will try to take it easier tomorrow. Still no BM...😣. I was able to push out the last of the cotton padding or perhaps a better term would be plug from my anus. but still no BM. I started taking milk of magnesia and metamucil so hopefully this helps by tomorrow

Day 4: yesterday I was able to find some old valium (generic name diazepam).which did help me sleep better and longer. I think i sleep like 4 straight which is a victory. the pain is like yesterday which is a constant 4. to help with the BM I started taking 3 things last evening: are "poop like a champion" cereal (Amazon), took 2 tsp of Metamucil, and ,30 ml of milk of magnesium. I was gassy the night of but no BM, however when I woke up in the morning I had the urge to go immediately. it only hurt a little more when I was passing the BM. assume that's because I ate so much fiber and I always took the stool softeners . after my BM I took anothe sitz bath I average around 3 a day. I would say this the pain/soreness increased after my BM .It wasn't terrible but just sorer, I guess from things down there getting stretched out. the rest of the day was typical, a constant pain/soreness (level 4 pain) with occasional anus spasms that are really quick, sudden, and random buy shoot the pain up to a (8). though I did have less frequent spasms after I started taking a muscle relaxer. one thing, at around 7 pm I had v my second BM, it was A LOT. it was all solid and soft but it was a lot. I guess I over did it with all the fiber. again it only hurt a little more while passing it but afterwards I was even more sore than I was before and the pain also increased a little. I guess this is due to having such a large BM. I will not be taking any additional fiber the next day

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Day 5: Much of the same since yesterday, though pain/soreness has decreased slightly 🙂. I also have been able to sleep better and longer. my only issue was a small bout of diarrhea, but that may have been caused by over doing it with ultra high fiber cereal, Metamucil, and milk of magnesium. on days 2 and 3. overall I am not in that much discomfort. I do get occasional involuntarily sphincter spasms that really hurt, but I have noticed that if I "tighten" my sphincter myself once or twice an hour, I have much less frequent involuntarily spasms. overall I must say if I am pass the worst part(knock on wood) then my recovery from the procedure had been pretty easy