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Prolapsed Pile

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Jumpitha · 30/12/2022 18:47

Hi all,

Please help me. I’ve been diagnosed with a prolapsed pile at the hospital yesterday and was prescribed Scheriproct and Lidocaine to numb the pain.

I am now on my 4 day with little relief. Painkillers aren’t working, sits bath have stopped working…I am in so much pain I feel sick.

AIBU to ask when the pain will subside? It’s driving me demented and on top of this, I now have stomach cramps (IBS sufferer and have barely eaten as the pain is so bad)

Help me get some perspective please

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Jumpitha · 30/12/2022 18:57

Bumping. Please help give me some reassurance. I don’t know how much more I can take

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Greenqueen40 · 30/12/2022 18:59

No ideas but sympathy, I have had 2 bad attacks of piles and they were absolute agony, hope it settles down soon.

Datinghellscape · 30/12/2022 19:00

When I had a thrombosed pile I was told to go back to the GP within 5 days if I was still in pain so they could call through to the surgeon's. Luckily the treatment worked and I didn't need to do that!

Pain relief and call 111

SockGoddess · 30/12/2022 19:02

This sounds awful OP, you poor thing. Can you phone the hospital back and tell them what you’ve said here, that the pain is so bad you don’t know how to cope? Or out of hours/nhs 24 might be able to help. There must be something stronger they could try.

Datinghellscape · 30/12/2022 19:02

NHS advice on piles says severe pain is a hospital trip, so take yourself back tonight.

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Jumpitha · 30/12/2022 19:03

thank you for your replies.

mine apparently isn’t thrombosed, according to the Dr in a&e.

i have suffered before but this time I can’t concentrate on anything, been bed ridden for 2 days now. It’s really depressing me

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Doggiky · 30/12/2022 19:04

Took about ten days for mine to get better - I tried putting e45 on it at one point and I’ve never, ever felt a pain like it so I’d avoid that. Shoving an ice pack in my bum crack helped, so did witch Hazel and aloe Vera. Technically you shouldn’t but I put ibuprofen gel onto mine and that helped a bit too.

Doggiky · 30/12/2022 19:05

You’ve said you’re bed bound, I found that made it worse because the pain is always on one position. The more I moved, the less it hurt (although it bloody hurt to move in the first place)

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Jumpitha · 30/12/2022 19:06

10 days 😫was there any relief at that time.

This is seriously worst than labour. What I would do for an epidural now

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Jumpitha · 30/12/2022 19:07

Doggiky · 30/12/2022 19:05

You’ve said you’re bed bound, I found that made it worse because the pain is always on one position. The more I moved, the less it hurt (although it bloody hurt to move in the first place)

I think this is why I’m bed bound…hurts so much to move. So a walk round the house?

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LunaTheCat · 30/12/2022 19:08

Sit on ice… frozen peas.
I have heard of people putting an iced lolly between their buttocks.

sexnotgenders · 30/12/2022 19:15

Oh OP, you have all my sympathy. I had the worst attack of piles after my labour - it was horrendous and rendered me completely bedbound with pain. I was miserable. The only thing that helped the pain was lying down with a couple of frozen brussel sprouts wrapped in a muslin cloth wedged up around the pile (the size of the sprouts should mean you can surround the pile with the frozen sprouts, so it's encased in cold frozen goodness). That brought a lot of pain relief (until my arse warmed up again!). Get a bag of them and keep refreshing them every 30 minutes or so.

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Jumpitha · 30/12/2022 19:17

Thank you. How long was it until they went away and you were no longer bed bound?

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sexnotgenders · 30/12/2022 19:21

About 2 days before they calmed down enough for me to get up and about. I used frozen sprouts nearly constantly during that time (seriously, whenever they weren't frozen, those piles were fucking unbearable). Piles are the devil's work. A friend of mine used frozen tampons and inserted them, but my piles were outside, and I found better pain relief keeping the external ones frozen

Doggiky · 30/12/2022 19:32

Jumpitha · 30/12/2022 19:07

I think this is why I’m bed bound…hurts so much to move. So a walk round the house?

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Yes, walk around the house. I’ve also remembered that mine was during the heatwave last summer and I got DH to buy the biggest T-shirt he could find (a Sainsbury’s men’s xxl) and I wore it like a dress with nothing underneath. I looked like Homer Simpson in the episode where he gains weight and can’t fit into real clothes and gets a moomoo. So, anyway, no pants is a winner

SheilaWilcox · 30/12/2022 19:37

sit in bath, poke back up. Sounds gross but helps.

Lou834 · 30/12/2022 19:37

Oh god I feel for you. I have chronic fissure. Hell. Have you got stuff to make your poop v soft or loose? Any hardness or constipation will exacerbate it. It will ease. A hot water bottle balanced on your backside whilst laying on tummy x

Lou834 · 30/12/2022 19:39

.....and don't underestimate the power of paracetamol and ibuprofen

Fumnudge · 30/12/2022 20:01

Codeine with ibuprofen, or a decent codeine/tramadol from the docs, ice, ice and more ice (without contact on skin, obvs) and yes, lying on your back sticking it back in with your finger, it was my only true relief. I tried to fall asleep like that.
I so feel for you. Go back to the docs for better pain management even if they can't fix it.

Cakeandslippers · 30/12/2022 21:35

Sympathy, it really is agony. I had a reaction to sheriproct which was awful but GP then just gave me codeine, not sure if it helped or just took my mind off it! My main advice would be constant ice and witch Hazel on a pad, over time I think this is what shrunk them for me and is my immediate go to as / when they ever threaten to reappear. Major sympathy though, any kind of movement was agony.

EddietheEagle · 30/12/2022 21:43

I had this problem back in August. We were on holiday in Dubai and went up the Burj Khalifa which is the tallest building in the world. On the way up I was fine. On the way down my bum started itching terribly, and when I got to the bottom I had an external pile.

It was agony. I had to then try and find a chemist in the Dubai Mall that had something for piles. Nothing they had was any good. The cream I swear by is called Germoloids and they don't sell it there. It ruined the last few days of our holiday really.

It took a good week for it to disappear, and not until I got home and put the germoloids cream on it. I could have kicked myself for not taking it with me.

It was absolute agony and soooo painful

solvendie · 30/12/2022 21:50

Ask your GP for xyloproct for external pile or proctosedyl for internal/external. Much the best stuff I’ve used. Xyloproct shrinks quickly. Also ask for codeine-based painkiller and lactulose in case of constipation from codeine.

NewHopeNow · 31/12/2022 18:06

How are you doing? Any better?

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Jumpitha · 31/12/2022 23:42

Thank you for checking in. So the diagnosis was wrong and it was a perianal abscess (which I actually suspected).

Have been referred to the surgical team as the fucker burst (but at least I can now sit!) so it needs to be drained. Waiting in a&e now after being at an urgent care hospital which has now referred me here.

Happy New Year to me!

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EddietheEagle · 31/12/2022 23:46

Jumpitha · 31/12/2022 23:42

Thank you for checking in. So the diagnosis was wrong and it was a perianal abscess (which I actually suspected).

Have been referred to the surgical team as the fucker burst (but at least I can now sit!) so it needs to be drained. Waiting in a&e now after being at an urgent care hospital which has now referred me here.

Happy New Year to me!

Oh gosh that sounds painful. At least you have the right diagnosis now. Let us know how you get on x