PILES PLEASE HELP !!!!!!!

[sambrads]

hi everyone please can you help i have really sore piles and am in agony. this is my second pregnancy and i had them with ds.

today was my ds 2nd birthday party and i have been on my feet all day and now i can hardly sit down

has anyone any advice???

im due in 3 days and dont want to push my insides out as well as my baby

[cece]

My top tip would be to have bran sprinkled all over your breakfast cereal. However, this takes a few days to kick in so not much help for today. Have you got any Fybogel, that helps too...

[Honeymoonmummy]

My yoga teacher told me that a natural remedy is to boil garlic for 30 mins then apply it to the "area"...

I've been suffering too but have just been using suppositories, cream and Relaxin which have been controlling it most of the time.

[xserialshopper]

Search this thread on mumsnet

Piles...hmmm a top tip for those having difficulty sitting

(just cut and paste). There was a remedy there

[BigBadMousey]

If you want to go down the cream/ suppositories route read the ingredients carefully and only get the ones with a local aneasthetic. I had this with DS and wasted my money on Germaloids cream - total waste of time. Proctosedyl has the local aneasthetic and can be taken when PG IIRC - that worked quickly but I did OD (desparate times and all that.....)

Hope things improve soon.....

[sambrads]

bigbadmousey you od?????

i have been using anasoul?? i think thats how you spell it

i would love to know how people cope with these and they are not pregnant !! i remember with ds i was sore sore at the end i could not even sit down for 5 hours one time it was awful

[BigBadMousey]

Ahh..right - major backtrack here...

I've just rifled through my medicine cabinet and it was Germaloids that worked - they had the aneasthetic in them. I think it was the anusol (stupid name)that didn't work at all. I rememeber driving a 30 mile round trip to the nearest Tesco on a Sunday to get the Germaloids - it was worth it though!

Yes I OD'd - I used the suppositories and cream together and more often than suggessted - I was very close to my due date too and panicked. Little monster was 10 days late in the end anyway but I was far better by my due date.

[sambrads]

well i think i might get some of that cream today and see how it goes

you would drive 100mies just to get some relief. i think this baby could be over due as well not really looking forward to it at all

[brettgirl2]

use the suppositories, they are much better than just cream.

[lemonlady]

germaloids the best out of the lot. (expert here)

[Pheebe]

OK, you're due in 3 days so you need a quick fix. Get to the docs in the morning and get him to prescribe some cream, they can prescribe stuff with a good strong local anaesthetic in to soothe the pain and a steroid to start to shrink them. Unfortunately its almost certain giving birth will make them worse in the short term. I would also ask the doc to prescribe you a laxative (movicol or some such) as the last thing you want is to get constipated.

I had awful plum sized ones after DS2. Sitting in the bath helped alot and once bub was here I took paracetamol and codeine to relieve the ache as I couldn't bf. They were terrible for 2 days, then sore for about 3 weeks. No problems since.

[sambrads]

thanks so much for your advice pheebe plum sized ones sounds scary glad your k now though.

i cant remember what mine were like after ds but its the last thing you need after having a baby and maybe having stitches

[Pheebe]

tbh I hardly noticed the stiches (had quite a few apparently), they were a doddle. I think lots of baths helped hugely with them.

Anyway, it was a good excuse to spend lots of time laying out on the bed with ds2 for those first few days which (almost) made up for it

[mishkamoo]

I was in agony at the start of last week, and went to the doctors. She precribed me proctdesyl (?sp) cream and suppositories. USe the cream in the day and the suppositories at night. They are still sore but bearable now. Take paracetomol. Try ice packs or warm baths if that seems to help. I am due in 4 days and given how sore they are after doing a poo, I 'm dreading what its going to be like after labour, but I guess there's not much else you can do. Oh the glamour!!

[mad4mybaby]

i hated suppositorys (sp) i just couldnt handle it being up there! Made me gross out! All creams i used never worked but didnt use germaloids. Just a question, ive heard people want to get rid of them as they hurt but i have them (pg but had since ds1 2 yrs ago) and just wont go but doesnt hurt.,. whats that about? It gets in the way! Also do you call them plural only if you have in more than one place?? Sorry 4 taking over but i think i only have 'one' how does that work? Do we just call them piles?