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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 09, 2012, 05:24:16 PM
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Oh my.
This campfire was lit in January, but it's still on fire as of today.
auntAgonist (16,242 posts)
Hemorrhoids: Has anyone had surgery for this?
Or do you know of someone who has had surgery.
Warpy (63,401 posts)
1. It's often necessary but one of the worst ops if only because you can never show anyone your scar unless you're incredibly annoyed at them.
The two other bad things about it are the prep and the aftermath, meaning that first bowel movement after surgery. Most people are surprised they still need the surgery after the prep. And everybody feels like they're passing tin can lids, razor blades, broken beer bottles and barbed wire the first time afterward, even with laxatives and stool softeners.
However, recovery is extremely rapid and people get back to better than normal very quickly.
auntAgonist (16,242 posts)
2. I have heard that the pain is horrible. I can't imagine it being worse than what I have now though. I'm scheduled for a colonoscopy this Friday. (Mother died of colon cancer so I'm tested regularly) I've had chronic diahrea for ever it seems and the bleeding hemorrhoids are just getting worse. I know the DR is going to suggest surgery as he did last time. I don't think I can put it off any longer
shanti (15,942 posts)
4. if you're having bad pain now the surgery will probably be a blessing, like having a tooth pulled when it's infected.
shanti (15,942 posts)
3. my father did many years ago. i believe they did the rubber band surgery, where it just dies and drops off. he was in excruciating pain and had to sit on a donut pillow for awhile. it cured him, though.
ProfessorGAC (23,627 posts)
5. My Wife Did
The first couple of bowel movements made her rethink the decision, but after that she's been glad she did it. The recovery time was really pretty short. Probably around a week, and doctor told me she had one of the largest internal hemmorhoids he had ever removed.
After her experience, i think i'd be ok with getting them taken care of, though thankfully, i don't have that issue.
auntAgonist (16,242 posts)
6. Thanks. I'm glad it worked for her. I can't imagine it being more pain than I'm going through right now. It's gotten progressively worse over this past year. My issues are mostly internal with some external activity too.
I am living on pain killers these days and AnuCort suppositories. The pain killers are killing my stomach and I don't have much of a stomach to work with so I'm quite afraid of the damage they are doing.
Zoigal (1,483 posts)
8. Had the op years ago...not really bad..fast recovery..MD gave me some sort of oil (not castor oil) from the first day and the first BM was a breeze...no pain at all.
He said that was a trick he had learned as a resident. No problems since...
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roody (6,701 posts)
9. Did you have the surgery?
How did everything go? I hope you are better now.
auntAgonist (16,242 posts)
10. roody, thanks for asking. I had a terribly rough go of it but I'm on the mend. I did NOT have the surgery. The pain became unbearable and the Dr admitted me to the hospital a week before my surgeon's appointment. It turns out that I had fissures (tears) that had become infected and bleeding a lot. Did I mention the pain? ouch.
Anyway, there were complications ( I have other health issues) and I was kept in for 6 days on IV nutrients, anti-biotics and pain meds.
I still have issues 'down there' but not surgery worthy.
roody (6,701 posts)
11. Sounds awful. Are you on a special diet? I hope you are out of pain.
auntAgonist (16,242 posts)
12. No special diet but I do try to avoid eating a lot of red meats, they are harder to digest.
I have malabsorption issues hence a LOT of loose movements (TMI sorry) I try to get a good balance of fiber though to bulk up. The problem is too loose or too bulky causes irritation.
I don't absorb 90% of the fats I eat so I try really hard to limit that as well.
Water, lots of water helps.
Some days are better than others re pain.
The primitive needs to put some fiber and roughage into her diet.
I still consider the brown bread sold in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants as the best damned bread I've ever had in my life.
As it was manufactured by the government, it was made from a little bit of flour, some ground-up potato peels, and sawdust.
That's right; sawdust, because some crooked socialist entrepreneur working for the government had purloined the flour and sold it under the table elsewhere.
I thought it was great--even after I learned (and then later saw) what was in it.
Keeps the channels as clean as a whistle.
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Why is it that any time a see a thread title concerning DU that includes the words "pain" and "ass" I wonder what they've rammed up their rectum this time?
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Why is it that any time a see a thread title concerning DU that includes the words "pain" and "ass" I wonder what they've rammed up their rectum this time?
Actually, it's a natural, and quite reasonable, assumption to make.
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Oh, I thought they were going full tilt after Nads. :mad:
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I'm reminded of Fat Che's little brother, and his near-fatal encounter with a small car in the hands of his latest queer squeeze.
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It's been said already in a form, but......
Maybe if they took the dick out of their pooper, (or at least slowed down with the anal/dp/toys/whatever else they do) they wouldn't be having this discussion.
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My father-in-law swears that during his first crap after the surgery that he's the one who invented break dancing.
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My father-in-law swears that during his first crap after the surgery that he's the one who invented break dancing.
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I apoligize for laughing, but..... :lmao:
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My father-in-law swears that during his first crap after the surgery that he's the one who invented break dancing.
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I laughed out loud.
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My Uncle likes to say, "I wish you piles".
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This thread brought back fond memories of our poor cocker spaniel who had an affinity for intestinal parasites. My Mom screaming bloody murder as he skidded along on his butt on her new carpet. Also remembered an obscure SNL bit with the brother & sister who would whine "We have diverticulitis"
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So the DUmmie has "a pain in its ass."
You get what you give, DUmmie! Enjoy! :lmao:
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So the DUmmie has "a pain in its ass."
You get what you give, DUmmie! Enjoy! :lmao:
The primitives think along the same lines as the growing-extinct old hippies did; "I can do what I want to do, and if there's any bad consequences, drugs'll take care of it."
I've never seen such a large group of people indulging in such sorry-ass diets, as the primitives; they think they can clog their throats with sweets, sugar, white bread, chemical foods, grease, and glop, and then sit around on their asses all day long, and get away with it.
A story.
franksolich once had haemorrhoids; back when he was 17 years old, and just started college.
It was considered inevitable; all those in my own family had had them.
I went to the student health center at the University of Nebraska, and was given bullet-like objects to stuff up there.
It got worse, and the same thing happened to franksolich that happened to one of the primitives at this campfire; infected fissures.
I went to the student health center, and was prescribed Darvon.
And then later, Percocet.
This went on that whole first summer (I entered college in summer); weeks and weeks of agony and irritation, especially since I wouldn't take the drugs; they were free and all that, but I flushed them down the commode.
I went home to the Sandhills at the end of the summer, and went to see the family physician, an old country doctor.
He told me, "Pull down your pants and bend over," which I did.
He jammed a glass rod dipped in silver nitrate or nitric acid or something, in there.
Problem solved, apparently for life, because it's been a few decades, and despite that I've had a few desk-sitting jobs after college, I've had no problems in this area, not even the slightest twinge.
This was about the time I had made considerable changes in the diet; as a child, my younger brother and I had usually been fed glop by older brothers and sisters resentful that they had to feed us (our parents were usually gone), and food prepared by resentful teenagers is pretty gross.
Upon being on my own, I totally shunned all that had been shoved down my throat in earlier years; margarine, white bread, processed foods, grease, sugar. I think I was 14, the last time I choked down a hot dog, and the merest whiff of spiced ham (bologna?) gives me nausea; I won't go near it. It was probably about the same time I quit dumping sugar on breakfast cereal, dining on it instead plain, with milk.
Canned vegetables, canned fruits, no way.
&c., &c., &c.
And the counsel and advice of the old country doctor; plenty of fiber and roughage, the more the better.
This had far-reaching affects that not only prevented problems with the lower end of the alimentary canal; at this late stage in my life, I'm still free of the "genetically"-caused family afflictions and ailments--diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, overweightness, eroded teeth, &c., &c., &c.
Food is supposed to be merely a fuel, not a decadent indulgence.
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Hot tub with epsom salt, anti-itch cream, and keep stuffing them back in.
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Hot tub with epsom salt, anti-itch cream, and keep stuffing them back in.
Not sure, but, I'm trying my best to figure exactly what. :whatever:
:bolt:
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Me and my anus are just alike....both perfect assholes. :-)
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Me and my anus are just alike....both perfect assholes. :-)
Bragging about your anus again I see.
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My father-in-law swears that during his first crap after the surgery that he's the one who invented break dancing.
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: TEARS.STREAMING. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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Me and my anus are just alike....both perfect assholes. :-)
When you hear "arrow" substitute arsehole
Straight up and narrow...
Harry Nilsson...Me and my arsehole (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmzyVFzmLo)
Everywhere we go everyone knows...