open wound after hemorrhoidectomy

Its the worst operation i think any if us on here have ever been through. If you read through my posts higher up i had days i was feeling suicidal because it messes with you mentally.

Talking to others on here sat in my salt bath really helped. I knew i wasnt alone and what i was going through was normal. I found the diet to be the big factor in all of this. Plenty of fruit and veggies. Im 5 months post op now and if i get lazy and eat junk food i find i pay the price, back to straining and sore a few days afterwards. We all know straining is the cause so eating healthy is a life long change ive had to make. Days im sore and the healed wound is sensitive i think back to the times they were thrombossed and realise its not that bad. I had internal ones removed and tested and felt no pain internally its been the outside wound like you said. Week 8-10 i saw a massive improvement i could actually go to the toilet not sitting in a sitz bowl and could use wet wipes without wanting to vomit from the stinging. If your wound is very painful and stings opening your bowels do it in cool water. You'd be surprised what people have done on this forum just to poop lol

Your almost there keep up what your doing!

Everyone on this forum with the sympathy and the advice were what got me through. Family and friends dont understand what theyve not experienced.

I thank you all on here, your words meant a lot!

THANKYOU xx

Thankful I found this. day 10 after double thrombosed hemorrhoidectomy. I'm also only a bmi of 18.6. (28yr/ 5'4 / 114lbs) I have gastroenteritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and now this.... 5yrs of being told it was cosmetic, multiple er visits and two hospital stays later, my surgeon got me in in less than a week. I am dying here. All stitches have burst. The wound is wide open. I have a fissure across from it. no pain meds since day 3... then i got my cycle today.... this page, you people, made this a bit more comforting in the most uncomfortable of times. thank you all.

Im on day 10 of recovery. I am wondering if we are supposed to be having a BM every day, or how often? what is normal

for everyone on here? Any good updates would be great to read!!

Wow. so grateful for this news feed, I am 10 days post-OP and the recovery has been AWFUL. All my stitches are ripped open, the toilet fills with blood if I so much as fart, im in constant pain, and my butthole looks like ground beef. And if you Google it, almost every search result is some medical expert saying hemorrhoidectomy is NO BIGGIE. Safe/painless and should be basically back to normal after a week. That made me feel crazy. Finally, reading all your stories made me feel so much better, thank you:)

My main question is for people who's stitches ripped open, do things eventually look normal? even if the hemorroid is gone, I'm worried about my butthole looking gross. I'm young and sexually active and would feel super uncomfortable doing doggy style or other things with a lumpy ripped up bumhole. .. ugh this whole thing has been so traumatizing.

if the area doesnt look better, I'd be willing to go through surgery again and my plan is to straight up not eat. I'll just do a juice diet for a month or something idk.

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hello all... new to here

I had a hemmroidectomy and sphincter surgery last Friday due to years of painful hemmroids and then recently fisures. OMG. the pain is out off the charts. I haven't been able to eat out of fear of what goes in has too come out! I've lost so much weight over the last few months. when I did go pain was so bad all I could do was just cry my eyes out.. so now I'm even more scared to go. this is so debilitating and depressing.!!! I have an infection and can barely walk too. I need to buy a sitz bath due to getting in the tub is too hard for me on many levels.. I heard it was a bad surgery. but when the nurse called to check up on me.. she said I was doing good considering I just had the worst most painful surgery ever.....its hard too see the light at the end of the tunnel.. with the other issues that have popped up too....... I wished I never had too have it done. good thing tho I quit smoking so thats 💯 good thing... praying for a speedy recovery for yall

Wow, this thread has been so hopeful. Thank you for sharing. I thought I was losing my mind with how i am going thru this. Today is day 7 after hemorrhoidectomy and sphincterotomy. Post-surg pain has reduced but still quite uncomfortable. My main issues are the bleeding that doesn't stop and the pain with BMs. I'm taking baths multi times a day but when I pat dry, there is already some blood seepage. I suspect open wound or blown stitches. Sounds like I need a lot more time to get thru that. I hate that I have to put gauze in my cheeks with a pad, and I am a 46 yo man! mentally it is draining not knowing if or when you might get better. seems everyone is different but i appreciate all the tips. not quite the weight loss program i was hoping for, but it is a little bright spot.

Had hemmorids since my first child who is 10.

Just had a baby 7 weeks ago. 1/26/21

2/26/21- Hemmorids flared up, to a point of no comfort, no relief no matter how many sitz baths, prep H I used.

3/1/21- Visited ER. hemmorids lanced, blood clots removed. - Caused a ton of pain with no relief, only made them bigger and more thrombose.

3/2/21 Visited a Colorecal surgeon, who told me I’d be having surgery the next day.

3/3/21 Had emergency surgery. Went home and spent the next few days in bed. Found out I had 3 HUGE external hemmorids, about 1 1/2 inches long & about 2 cm wide- per my surgeon. not including the internal hemmorids.

3/5/21 I had not been cleaned out (drinking stuff to clear colon), prior to surgery, so I was “impacted” with stool at home, standing in my Bathroom and pooping on the floor, while screaming bloody murder. When I say I’d rather birth another child, I’d rather birth 2 at once!!!! The pain was excruciating & the worst thing I’ve ever felt in my life! This happened for 2 days (pooping in the shower, with HOT HOT water, and crying/screaming and biting on towels)

3/7/21 - the day after my 30th birthday!! I returned to the ER, because I couldn’t do ANYTHING. Sit, stand, lay without crying and screaming in pain. I was MISERABLE!

I was admitted for pain control (they gave me every narcotic you can think of) including injections of lidocaine in my anus.

I was on stool softeners, miralax, milk of mag, and a liquid diet until I followed up with my surgeon.

3/11 came home, stayed on stool softeners 3x day, miralax 2x day, 2 different pain meds not including ibprofen and 2 fiber supplements a day, I use a squirt bottle to clean my area after a poop, gloves and baby soap to clean, baby wipe to pat dry & lidocaine ointment to help relieve some pain! But let me tell you STILL MISERABLE. Not to mention the mental toll it takes on you. I can’t even love on my children including my brand New daughter.

3/16 follow up visit. Dr says I’ve ripped a few stitches but it looks “better than he figured it would” (he did not treat me at the hospital as he does not have privileges at the hospital I was at- his associate treated me) he tells me to start regular food /healthy diet, and use “BAG BALM”, inserting my pinky knuckle deep inside my butt, to “lube the area to help my stool pass” & put it on the outside for healing. I still have what look like skin tags every where (4-6 of them) and a few stitches left in there. 3 have came out that I found on a wet wipe/cleaning process!

Here I am 2 weeks and 2 days post op.

I am MISERABLE still!!!!!!!!

I’m going back on a liquid diet, because even having stools dime sized and log-ish are PAINFUL. I’d much rather have diarrhea than this. I took a picture of my rectum to see what it looks like & it surely looks like I may need to be re-stitched, as towards the back it looks like a tear, about 1/2 inch long, and is very tender and sore.

This is by far the worse thing I have ever been through. I have never hurt so bad physically, mentally and emotionally. I can hardly walk around but it feels better than sitting. Very sore, tender and I feel useless to do anything...

I would never have had this surgery had I known the results of after care for it.. i keep thinking “tomorrow will be better” & I’m proven to be wrong again.

I hope my story helps someone or someone can comment me any sort of “advice”. Because mentally, I can not take much more.

I just want to do some laundry, or drive to the store. Or even EAT some regular food.

you have wound

im eight weeks now i have thin stool so painful and wound and nhs not interested in me

i just had an Exstensive hemmroudectomy horrible but im 9 days in im definintly not myself but im back to managing my recovery i dont feel good enough to enjoy this weather and im having and like itching problem i guess its healing but what can i use to stop that part that is annoying and it still feels like i have to use the bathroom not no pain i realized just to let it drop when its ready****

8 months...it has been 8 months since mine and still have open wound that bleeds and drains. most God awful surgery I havr ever went thru in my life. revision surgery...had fissure and tunneling...didn't heal it. had silver nitrate outer on it and nothing. I'm so beyond depressed over it.

hey,

I had a hemroidectomy done almost 2 weeks ago. needless to say it has been absolute hell. and reading all of these comments tells me it's not going to get better any time soon.. the worst part is my stools recently have become hard. they were not. it would just fall out. and now going to the bathroom is a even worse experience to where I am screaming and in sobbing tears. they have me taking 2 stool softeners. I take meta mucil in the morning and mirlax in the evening 2 days now. my stool has not changed. I feel i have to go and can't. so if anyone can give me some advice I'd really appreciate it.

also I'm struggling with getting really hot and then cold then getting really hot if I attempt to do anything.

I got a donut pillow bx I have not been able to sit. I have been off the pain medication just tynol and advil. driving is a horrible experience. I really just want to feel better. feel my self. I feel like I can't do anything. I go back to work next week on light duty for 2 more weeks. I just feel like I'm upset all the time and just want to sleep mu recovery away.

hell all,

I just had my hemorrhoidectomy 3 weeks ago and 1 day. Fr removed 2 inside Hemorrhoids, and one outside (thrombosed). he said the ones inside were huge and we took a lot of skin. had a nightmarish first 2 weeks, doing much better now keeping poop soft and runny.. but, doctor said I need to eat and listen to my cravings ( lots of protein ). apparently he will also put his finger inside to see if it will go in otherwise, we have to do another operation to open up my anus more! anybody else experiencing this (ps : I am still in pain after every BM, I have to rest and appease the pain with baths and sitting or laying down for hours)