Post Op Hemaroids Question

pita, have a question, starting to see some blood post BM every other day, clean and bright. Is this normal or should I be worried (in week 4 now).

Paul

Really depends on how much exactly you're seeing. If it's just dripping out of you that could be concerning but if it's spotting on toilet paper / pads, it's probably normal. Regardless, I'd schedule a follow up with your surgeon just to be on the safe side. I had a follow up at 2 weeks, 4 weeks and now again at 8 weeks (next week).

The wounds tend to heal up, open, heal up, repeat in my experience as you're healing. I'm at week 7 now and I still have some swelling but it is finally going back down. I don't have any blood, but I still notice a sharp stinging pain that turns to a burning/ aching after a larger bowel movement. I also seem more narrow down there now, so I do get concerned I developed a fissure. Generally post op, if it's not the wound bleeding or hurting it's probably going to be a fissure. I'll be finding out about that myself when I see my surgeon again in a few days. Hopefully I don't end up with a chronic fissure and end up needing another surgery...

Hang in there, it can really be a long recovery as I've found. There have been a lot of moments for me of "oh I feel better" followed by a new pain in a new area. Just hang in there, try to eat well and keep taking stool softeners and fiber if you can tollerate it.

Thanks for the reply, have scheduled to see the surgeon on the 25th Oct. The blood is just at the end when its wiped so no major dripping. Same as you every now and then a sharp stab of pain just to remind me that it's still there, no pain during BM which is good. The two lumps are still there but in my opinion they are getting smaller, Sometimes they increase in size but do go down. I had a fissure last last year and boy was it interesting, had to have it rescared as it wasn't healing, now it's OK so I can sympathise with you. Still taking fybogel, tastes lice crap but it helps.

i am 17 days in and have dripping blood with some more explosive bowel movements. I'm getting really concerned as it is happening more frequently.

if you are dripping blood go to A&E to get it seen to, flowing blood is not a good thing.

Yup I had the same exact thing. Infection week 1 and a halfish post op and went on a week of antibiotics for it. The discharge should start to go down after that. Now I just get a little bit after I've pooped. 

You're in for a long ride though. Not saying that to discourage you, just to be realistic. It really starts to wear on you when it's been a month since surgery and you think something is wrong with you. Not everyone gets this post op swelling (everyone heals differently) but it seems like it might take people like us up to 8 weeks to be really back to pretty much normal from what I've read and experience so far. I'm at almost 5 weeks now and while I'm able to do most things, I'm still pretty sore and tender with a fair amount of swelling still. Really just feels a lot like a flared up hemorrhoid. 

Best thing to do in the meantime is to try to keep your poop as soft as you can (without diarrhea) and keep taking NSAIDs for pain. Keep drinking lots of water and taking plenty of hot sitz baths with epsom salt. I'm still wearing women's underwear liners at 5 weeks to deal with the occasional leakage. 

Have you had a harder time passing stool or had it coming out very thin? That's been something I've experienced and it really freaked me out that I had stenosis. I saw my surgeon though who assured me that it's just the swelling still and not stenosis, so that was reassuring.

After about week 2 and a half to 3, you should be in pretty good shape pain wise. I really only hurt after a bm (sort of a burning soreness) and it'd go away after a few min in a hot bath. I wasn't able to sit really until about week 4 because of that swelling poking out. It was very tender and sitting on it was painful. Sitting is still a little uncomfortable at this point too but its doable now. 

Most of what I've experienced and seen online about the swelling is that it really doesn't seem to get better day by day. It's hard to describe, but I've noticed it myself. It seems like every Sunday I wake up and have made a little "leap" in the right direction with healing but on a day to day basis it just seems like it's not getting better at all and then all of a sudden I'll see a big improvement. You'll also have some set backs in the next few weeks too, so don't get discouraged. Just today after a week of pretty much no pain, I am very sore after having a little bit of a watery stool this morning. Just take it all in stride though and accept that full recovery from this is multi-month marathon. 

Hope that helps a bit. 

thanks for all the info, now pretty much without serious pain, except when I go and everyonce in a while a sharp stab. Still a bit of a watery discharge and some blood in the stool but as it's nice and bright it looks OK. Will be at home for the next two weeks as I don't fancy bouncing around in the cab of my truck ans turning the air blue.