It’s been 10 months on the dot after my first hemorrhoidectomy
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10 months ago I had a Hemorrhoidectomy, 2 internals and one bad external, I'm a 28 year old male and have never had many issues with my bowels until about 2 years ago when my first hemmy came haha it was bad, I was put on steroid Suppositories and it took it away pretty quick! Now fast forward to 10 months post op I have regular BM and me personally it feels as if my sphincter has shrunk, either from scar tissue or the amount of trauma it went through. Every time I go I have to squeeze till it fits to go through, or else it feels like I'm about to tear my anus badly. Idk if anyone else is experiencing these feelings but I have blood coming out as if I tore what used to be a Hemorrhoid, because i get a pinching sensation as if a small needle is pricking my insides. Does anyone have any knowledge on this or experience with the feeling I'm describing?? please any help would be awesome! thank you!!
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henrik11547 mauricio87612
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Hi Mauricio, I'm today 6 months post-op, 30yo male, only internal ones removed and I am also experiencing exactly the same thing as you. Had a follow up like 2-3 months ago but the surgeon couldn't tell for sure but he said I probably had a fissure and that my symptoms are that of a fissure. Some very minor bleeding with BM and at the "start" of BM's I have to strain which also I believe is from scar tissue/anal stricture and it also feels like some minor tearing with every BM. It doesn't seem to get worse but neither better. During my follow up I got some cream for fissures but it was useless. So I'm basically just waiting to see if it eventually does get better...My main concern now is that the straining will cause new hemorrhoids, imagine that, on top of everything else, f'n hell, LOL!
Christy024 henrik11547
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Hi there! I am 9 months post op and I have been in pain since day 1 after the surgery. I used to bleed but then I started taking Miralax at night and it helped my stool stay soft. Still having that "oh my gosh it is going to rip me to shreds" pain even though I take metamucil AND miralax every single day. Doctor thinks the scar tissue is taking long to soften so I too am hoping the pain eventually fades. Also to Maurico...my passage was a bit narrow and my other doctor thought it was a fissure so he did an anal stretch which only made things 100 times worse. I hope we all get through with this!
henrik11547 Christy024
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Hi Christy, sounds like we have the same symptoms other than the pain. For me it just stings at the start of BM but other than that nothing I would call pain, just discomfort. I'm also still using Movicol every- or every other day, can't cope without as it feels like that even a normal stool is too hard. Only good thing is that studies have not shown any negative effects of using Movicol/Macrogol for up to 2+ years, so should be "safe" to use. Using quite a lot of wheat bran in my diet, found that it also helps with eating more insoluble fiber. Question is, how long will this continue and is/has the fissure become "chronic", so fed up with this...
Christy024 henrik11547
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Hi again!
I feel as though once we keep our BMs as soft as possible maybe eventually we will heal. My sister had a chronic fissure and had some sort if flap surgery to cover it. She is still in pain and it has been months. So we are both fed up of pain. They want to do a pediatric anoscopy soon to see what is going on with her so once she does it and survives maybe I will give it a go. I have had so many different doctors check me out and I feel like the more they interfere, the worse I get. Sticking to fiberous foods, metamucil and miralax and I am hoping whatever is going on fixes itself. I hate surgery.
henrik11547 Christy024
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Hi Christy, how are you doing, did you go for a follow up?
I'm going next week. My, what I assume is and should be a fissure, got really bad last weekend, had a pretty bad BM with some straining and the s**t hit the fan, literally. Now every BM is again with some major feeling of tearing, bleeding is again worse and everything else that comes along. My bum hasn't felt this bad since like May, so yeah, a major setback. 7 months after surgery and I'm starting to feel really, really desperate. Regretting the whole thing since this is 10 times worse than having hemmies. Hoping that a Botox-injection for the fissure will be the next step. Since I'm already regretting the hemorrhoidectomy another surgery for the fissure would feel like going to hell...and probably stay there.
Christy024 henrik11547
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Hi! This whole thing is so weird. My pain is decreasing but if I have ONE bad BM then I am back in the same position as before...pain! I have been putting the GTN paste after BMs and honestly it has been helping me. I did not go back to the doctor but after my semester finishes this year I may do an anoscopy. My sister did the botox injection for her fissure and it did not help her one bit. Hopefully it does for you. Did your doctor tell you it was a fissure you had?
henrik11547 Christy024
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Hi, yes they did. Went for the botox injections on Wednesday, have had near perfect stools last 2 weeks so it is hard to say if the botox have started working but it felt pretty good today. On the other hand, I noticed today a blueish lump outside the anus that has showed up since wednesday as I certainly didn't have one before. In my opinion it can't be nothing else than a perianal haematoma or a new hemmie...This f-n mess just wont stop. 😑
JustMe81 mauricio87612
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i think it could be stenosis
HollarGirl1973 mauricio87612
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yea its been like 3 months since my surgery and i have been going 2 times a day and it hurts really bad im still taking stool softners and eating healthy ive lost 30 plus pounds but i see dr friday because im still in pain
brad07986 mauricio87612
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Hi Mauricio,
So sorry to hear about what you're going through!
I'm also a 30ish y/o male and I just had my first hemm. surgery 3 months ago. I hoped I could ask you a question?
I was wondering if you had any issues with discharge / drainage / mucus? I am, luckily, mostly healed (I think!) with minimal to no pain most of the time, regular BMs, trying to get back to normal. However, even 3 months out, I still need to use a gauze pad between my butt cheeks all day / night every day bc I am still having mucus / discharge. It is always heavier in the mornings after a BM (often, overnight, there is nothing), and it varies in color from white to yellow to dark brown. Some days it is worse, some days better, but it does not seem to be going away.
Did you have anything like this? My doctor seemed to think that would naturally stop in 4-6 weeks...but it's been 12 weeks and it is still going. Any advice or even just to hear what you had yourself would be very helpful!
Thank you! And feel better!