[spapas82]

I'm hijacking the thread but I'd be grateful to read about other people hemorrhoids experience. I'll start:

I had hemorrhoids which had to be operated because they become thrombosed. So I did a surgery (with general anaesthesia) to remove them.

The recovery pain was unbearable, a real torture. For like 3 months I was in pain all the time and had to take painkillers and put some special cream on the operated area (my ass). I couldn't sit and had to lie down all the time(I was lucky that I wasn't working at this time). Going to the toilet was really painful at first but that improved after some weeks. This was considered normal.

The thing is that even now, almost 5 years after the operation, it still bothers me, depending on my stool (if it's hard it's a big problem). Does it ever heal?

All in all unless really required I don't recommend operating your hemorrhoids. Change your diet, use a bidet, use creams and try to avoid surgery!!!

[jsqu99]

i had an anal fissure for some time (6 weeks) and it was also unbearable. opiods didn't help at all. the drs told me something about them not working in that part of the body. hot baths several times a day. they wanted me to insert some cream up there using my pinky, which just make the pain worse by re-aggravating the area. I'm still not sure how it eventually healed, but I really started to understand why people in chronic pain would consider suicide.

[unxdfa]

Been there and can sympathise. After a couple of weeks you literally wonder if this is your entire life now and if you want to live like it.

The worst bit though was how I got the fissure. I had a nearly completely obstructed anus. The human body will clear that if you like it or not, with or without medical intervention and it will do damage on the way out. Ugh.

Eat more fibre and drink more water!

[birdyrooster]

Been there and that took like over a year to fully become normal again.

[arittr]

this was my experience with surgery ~5 months ago 100%. the surgery helped, but certainly didn't "fix" it in any sense of that word.

the pain was super interesting. i have pretty bad OCD and it was strange to note that there are levels of pain where anxiety (or any other thought) is just a luxury you don't have time for.

i have a new appreciation and empathy for people who suffer with chronic pain.

[MarkusWandel]

The body knows how to prioritize. I'm a terrible sleeper. Change positions all the time, always too warm or too cold, wake up and need to go to the washroom, think about an itch and suddenly it gets unbearable etc.

So then a broken collarbone. And can only sleep in one position and getting into and out of bed is excruciatingly painful. And nothing itches, temperature is OK, sleep, if anything, better than usual because a lot of the usual things just aren't worth it, you know it took a lot of trouble to get into position just so and things aren't painful if you don't move, so make the most of it.