Barking and everyone else suffering with piles, after a horrid day yesterday which included having to go for a meeting in a stiffling warm room with a load of people taling about Brexit (what could be more depressing), travelling there and back on the tube after having already travelled into work on the tube and THEN picking up DD at nursery and spending an hour with her in the playground, all the while in massive pain, my piles have finally got better today!
What seems to have done the trick is taking a sitz bath last night and one in the middle of the night when I woke with pain (just sai in a flat and low bucket, didn't have the strenght to scrub the tub sufficiently clinically clean), using the Anusol with hydrocortisone (there are two versions of Anusol, one is milder and does not have hydrocortisone and did nothing for me), drinking loads of water, trying not to sit for too long at the time, and finally, when the pain got too bad and kep me awake last night, I remebered that I had a stereoid cream from when I had a very swollen cut after giving birth to DD, so I put some of that on. Know that it's not reccommended for pregnancy and wasn't even prescribed for piles but for a cut near the vagina, but reasoned that steroids are steroids, and that one application would not harm the baby. And this morning the pain was soooo much better!