In thinking 'piles' should be more talked about?

[Nicknameinvalid]

First time in my life I've had them.. And OUCH!

But I'm sooo embarrassed.. I've had to make up a 'pulling a muscle' injury at work to cover why I keep wincing and squeaking when I sit down wrong!

Allegedly 40% of the population has had them.. So why aren't they ever talked about?

Or am I just a total prude lol

[HeySoulSister]

the word 'piles' is a kind of nickname for them...so they are talked about!

[MrsTerryPratchett]

My DF talks about his all the time. I wish people talked about them less.

[Nicknameinvalid]

MrsTP - I wish I knew your husband we could compare stories lol.. I truly don't know anyone whose admitted to
Having them!

[Thepowerof3]

Are you pregnant Nickname?

[currentlyconfuseddotcom]

40%?! Ouch.

[ToriaPumpkin]

I've talked about mine (they followed labour) because I've got friends who wouldn't and I want them to feel comfortable asking for help/advice. I don't go on about them, even my husband isn't entirely sure how I treated them (think he prefers not to think about it which is fair) but I did rant about them four weeks post partum and if someone talks about after effects etc I've said I had them. A shocking number of people I've said it to gaze had them too!

My FIL is like MrsTerry's DF though. There is a limit to what I share

[onlysettleforbutterflies]

My family suffer with piles, you have my full sympathy, they are incredibly painful and really inhibit every day life. Have you been to the doctor?

[MistyB]

Good lord No!! But poor you!!

I hope you had your best 'I am in serious agony' face on when you went to the doctor. Witch hazel poured onto moist tissues are your friend.

[sonlypuppyfat]

I had a flare up a few months ago and it was honestly the worst pain of my life. I was crying in my DD arms my DH had to sleep downstairs I have really had to look at my diet and try and drink a lot more water. Try and keep your motions as soft as possible that really helps. Hope they get better soon

[SourSweets]

I always talk about mine. I had a baby just over 3 weeks ago and my god, I wish someone had warned me.

[Nicknameinvalid]

Noooo not pregnant! Just a bad case of constipation which literally turned me inside out cringes

[littlemog]

water as hot as you can bare

[eddiemairswife]

Had them with my third baby. When she got them with her first I said it served her right. She was not amused!

[onlysettleforbutterflies]

Just a little tip, although not conventional and a bit yuck, when you're in severe pain and nothing is alleviating it, trying sticking one of these over that area [http://www.boots.com/en/Kool-n-Soothe-Migraine-4-Pack_9869/] it works I promise!

[grimbletart]

You're right. I had them operated on over 30 years ago (they were so bad that none of the other treatments - creams, injections, banding - would do any good; but I was so embarrassed that I told my work place friends that the op was for "women's troubles". How daft is that?

PS - was the best thing I did - the op I mean, not the lie - as it was a complete cure after years of misery.

[Fakebook]

Apparently it's hereditary, so your family will have a good idea about the problem. My sister has them too, exacerbated by pregnancy and child birth. I compare and share stories and pain with her. I would never share piles stories with my friends! It's a family thing!

[OhTheDrama]

Yep I've heard they are hereditary too. You would love my dad OP, he is very vocal about the operation he had to remove his piles ! I had them in all my pregnancies and boy do I not miss sitting sobbing on the toilet!

[trashcanjunkie]

oh god me and my close buddies regularly discuss our arses, piles, shit, you name it. We are a mixed gender group all in our mid thirties. I was late to the 'piles gang' (although we all have mild to severe ibs and can't keep quiet when it comes to the quantity and quality of our bum custard)

my favourite piles conversation of all time came when my best mate was poorly as fuck with her pile. She was convinced it was visible through her clothes if she bent over (it wasn't). She sent her DH to the pharmacy in sainsburys for some kind of botty easing product. Her DH is really quite posh, and terribly naice. I was at home with her when DH rang from the pharmacy, and the conversation I heard went something like this

DH: DW, I'm here with the pharmacist. (strangled pause) she wants to know whether you'd like some anusol cream or a suppository? What would you like me to tell her?

Friend: Both! Get both! It's the size of my fucking thumb. It really hurts.

DH: Could I take both please. Yes cream and suppository please. Yes.

I was no help at all due to pissing myself laughing from the corner of the room at the thought of my friends DH dying inside but struggling on for his lovely missus.

Of course, soon after, I got my very own arse baby, and how they chortled when I rang to say I thought I'd definately either sat on or somehow wegded a piece of glass/splinter of wood up my bum. I too was in the unenviable position of limping to the pharmacy for cream and suppository. Mind you, instant blessed relief. Sigh.....

[insummeritrains]

YANBU I've had ishoo's since birth of DC1 and it seems to be the only taboo amongst my friends. I talk to my parents about it as my DF has suffered with them quite a bit.

[Nicknameinvalid]

Trashcan, I laughed so hard at that post that I needed to apply more cream!

[SHarri13]

They're a bloody nightmare. 3 babies has made sure that mine are there all of the time. I had a thrombosed one web expecting my last baby, OMG it was horrendous!

[BooCanary]

Its horrendous. I've had them since bad IBS a few years before DC. DC2 well and truly wrecked me though and I have bad flare ups now and again. If I have a sickness bug it nearly finishes me!

[trashcanjunkie]

[PoppyWearer]

I was very fortunate that one very kind work colleague warned me about them when I was expecting DC1. She just said in passing "oh and no one mentions it, but make sure you have some pile cream in the house for after the birth."

I think the pain from mine after birth was worse than the stitches, TBH.