Haemorrhoid support thread

[scheherazade_79]

I spent about half an hour sitting on a stone cold wall yesterday... and it looks like the old wife's tale has come true - I now have piles It's nothing significant, but I spent all day today being constantly aware of my arsehole.

I've boosted my fruit intake and I'm about to go to the chemist to see what I can get for it, so keep your fingers (or sphincters) crossed for me.

I just wanted to put this up because it's one of those things that lots of people get, but few are willing to admit to - and believe me, it's not nice.

So if you're suffering now, or have suffered in the past, you have my complete and utter sympathy.

 

[impressive]

The word "piles" has always cracked me up. (No pun intended.) I mean ... why?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

The word "piles" has always cracked me up. (No pun intended.) I mean ... why?

I like 'grapes' better.

I've suffered with them and god knows, it ain't funny.

 

[scheherazade_79]

The word "piles" has always cracked me up. (No pun intended.) I mean ... why?

Because when you call them 'piles' you can speak in rhyming code without anyone knowing what you're on about.

Eg. "I'm not in the best of moods, because Farmer Giles has come to pay a little visit."

 

[scheherazade_79]

I like 'grapes' better.

I've suffered with them and god knows, it ain't funny.

Abs, you have my sympathy. 'Grapes' is a bit of an exaggeration for what I have, though. Nevertheless, the image has filled me with horror and I've decided to have a spoon of olive oil tonight to ease the pressure somewhat.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Anyway you cut it (so to speak) they're a pain in the ass (if you know what I mean). I once had an uncle do a hemrrhoidectomy on one of his bulls. From then on, all that bovine was good for was hamburger. You'd walk into its pen and he'd back up into a corner. Kinda broke his spirit.

Anyway, he's dead. So is my uncle. There's probably a lesson there.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Abs, you have my sympathy. 'Grapes' is a bit of an exaggeration for what I have, though. Nevertheless, the image has filled me with horror and I've decided to have a spoon of olive oil tonight to ease the pressure somewhat.

Witch Hazel works wonders too. God my life sucks.

 

[Alex756]

My GI (you know nothing good ever starts by saying my GI) but my GI recomends running a bath as warm as you can and then just relaxing in it until the water cools. Something about the slow temp change or something.

And it could be MUCH worse.

Oh and sometimes upping your fiber is the wrong thing to do. depends on the reason for them. Sometimes you want a low residue diet.

But everyone agrees water water and more water.

~Alex

 

[matriarch]

*wincing in sympathetic discomfort*.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Sympathetic hugs from a fellow sufferer.

This is the reason I just don't understand the attraction of anal.

Well, this plus farts.

 

[Carl East]

This is something I've sufered from for a couple of years now, and it certainly isn't a joke. I got them from straining, when I wasn't eating correctly. So to all those who don't think fiber is a good thing, think again.

I've found that the only thing that really eases my discomfort is a good shower, whilst using medicated soap. For whatever reason, they seem to shrink when I do that, making it more bareable and enabling me to forget them for a while.

The worst thing for me is when I eat something that doesn't agree with me, and I end up getting the runs. I find I get really sore down there, and apart from bathing there doesn't seem to be a single thing I can do about it. Incidently, is there a cure for Haemorrhoids?

Carl

 

[Alex756]

This is something I've sufered from for a couple of years now, and it certainly isn't a joke. I got them from straining, when I wasn't eating correctly. So to all those who don't think fiber is a good thing, think again.

I've found that the only thing that really eases my discomfort is a good shower, whilst using medicated soap. For whatever reason, they seem to shrink when I do that, making it more bareable and enabling me to forget them for a while.

The worst thing for me is when I eat something that doesn't agree with me, and I end up getting the runs. I find I get really sore down there, and apart from bathing there doesn't seem to be a single thing I can do about it. Incidently, is there a cure for Haemorrhoids?

Carl

As I said depending on the medical reason for the hemeroids. some situations call for a high fiber diet, some for a low residue diet. As always anything like that should have a doctor's opinion given.

And yes there are many treatments for such, medicines and surgical procedures amounst them.

~Alex

 

[matriarch]

This is something I've sufered from for a couple of years now, and it certainly isn't a joke. I got them from straining, when I wasn't eating correctly. So to all those who don't think fiber is a good thing, think again.

I've found that the only thing that really eases my discomfort is a good shower, whilst using medicated soap. For whatever reason, they seem to shrink when I do that, making it more bareable and enabling me to forget them for a while.

The worst thing for me is when I eat something that doesn't agree with me, and I end up getting the runs. I find I get really sore down there, and apart from bathing there doesn't seem to be a single thing I can do about it. Incidently, is there a cure for Haemorrhoids?

Carl

If they get really bad, the usual last resort is surgery.

 

[hotchkiss]

I made the mistake of having them injected with cortizone! If you think the piles hurt its nothing to that. I'd only gone in for an exploratory examination, the lying doctor said it wouldnt be too uncomfortable.

To top it I had parked about half a mile from the hospital and had to stagger back to the car in agony just to save a couple of quid on the parking!

Makes me wince to remember. Metanium Nappy rash cream works for me and its less embarrassing to buy. that or Sudocreme

 

[Huckleman2000]

I made the mistake of having them injected with cortizone! If you think the piles hurt its nothing to that. I'd only gone in for an exploratory examination, the lying doctor said it wouldnt be too uncomfortable.

To top it I had parked about half a mile from the hospital and had to stagger back to the car in agony just to save a couple of quid on the parking!

Makes me wince to remember. Metanium Nappy rash cream works for me and its less embarrassing to buy. that or Sudocreme

I had one flare up to the size of a marble on a business trip once. I walked about a mile and a half to the closest drugstore or supermarket, and picked up some creme, but I got the hydrocortisone-laced variety out of ignorance. It's useless. Get the stuff that says it will shrink them. I wound up using a match to sterilize the needle in the hotel room sewing kit and piercing it myself. I wadded up a bunch of TP between my cheeks, and counted the hours until I returned home to my stash of suppositories and Prep H. I never travel without both ever since.

Years ago I had a proctological exam that was right out of a fetish film, complete with a good-looking nurse in heels (!) and a coincidential sighting of the doctor at a restaurant that same evening.

Thank you so much for stirring these memories.

[edit to add]: I love the anonymity of Internet forums. I've never even told my therapist these things. I think they're hilarious, except that I'm the subject.