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Symptoms of anal stenosis

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studentmum2
studentmum2

Hi hope you're all doing good. Can anyone who developed anal stenosis following a hemorrhoidectomy plz describe your early symptoms plz x

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  • kathy96513
    kathy96513 studentmum2

    Posted

    At about 4 weeks postoperatively I started having smaller stools and at times flat and ribbon like.  Even though the stools were smaller the pain with the stools were more painful and continued to feel like razor blades cutting like it felt early after surgery.  It did not make since if the stools were smaller that it would hurt more.

    My tried to do a recital examination and the opening was to small and it was too painful to do in office thus past Monday.  On Friday I went back under anesthesia so he could dilated my rectum and remove some scar tissue that caused the stenosis.

    I have only had a very small amount of stool that was liquid about midnight the night of surgery.  I have taken morals. , milk of magnesia and now mag citrate to get things moving.  

    My doctor told me I may have to use my jelly with gloves to manually dilated myself until swelling is down and having bowel movements on my own.

    He told me sometimes people with severe stenosis end up having to have a temporary colostomy.  I am scared to death .

    All I have happening is more swelling and passing no very small blood clots followed by bleeding.

  • kathy96513
    kathy96513 studentmum2

    Posted

    There are a lot of typos on my reply to you -my screen on my phone was partially covered by advertisement and could not see what was being typed.   Sorry.

    It should have read taking Miralax, Milk of magnesia, and this morning started taking mag citrate to get things moving.

    Should have also said my doctor attempted to do rectal exam in his office but opening was too small and it was too painful so I ended up having dilation of anus under anesthesia 2 days ago.  

    Only small amount of liquid stool the night of procedure since procedure done .  I only have had tiny blood clots followed by light bleeding since liquid stools Friday night.  

    My doctor told me I may have To manually dilated my anus using KY jelly and gloves until swelling goes down and able to pass stool.

    He told me there will be bleeding because I had tears on the walls of my anus from trying to pass stools with stenosis.  He told me that is why it felt like razor blades when I went to bathroom.

    I am so over this hemorrhoidectomy stuff- I had no idea this was the potential problems that would develop.

    Going in to hemorrhoidectomy I was told could go back to work in about 2 weeks.  It had been one problem after another.

    On the humor side - I guess I could say it had literally been a pain in my ass.

    • studentmum2
      studentmum2 kathy96513

      Posted

      Lol Kathy you certainly could say that. He told me he didn't remove all of my outside ones as it was so much worse than when he saw them originally in December in case it caused stenosis doing it all in one go and yet there's no external hem there. I'm having bms between 5-7 times a day and every one of them feels like I'm passing glass and are thin yet weetabix like ( if that makes any sense). Opening and closing my anus is horrendously sore particularly closing and closing can take anywhere from 10-20 secs after finishing my bm.

    • sez123
      sez123 kathy96513

      Posted

      Hi Kathy

      What you have described is my symptoms too.  I have a wound that hasn’t healed so opens everyday during bm hence I do have bleeding 6months on 

      However at times I feel like I tear myself trying to have a bm against a tight pelvic floor muscle 

      I’m curious abt the self dilation thing. Even though the dr said I have no stenosis I feel like I do. 

      What do you do ?? And for how long? 

      Tia 

    • kathy96513
      kathy96513 sez123

      Posted

      My doctor told me to get latex gloves and KY Jelly and to insert a finger every day to stretch the tissue at least daily to 2-3 times daily to keep the rectum from closing too tight again until able to have bowel normal bowel movements on my own.

      He told me to expect some bleeding when I do this.

      I had been tearing tissue in my rectum each time I had a bowel movement which began scarring when healing which contributed to the stenosis.  I am still doing stool softeners per his request and eating a soft diet  and fiber diet as well per my doctors advice.

      Good luck to you and hope you feel better.

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