4 weeks post partum and I bleed when I poo...

[Ledodgy]

It's not piles because it only hurts when I poo can't feel any grapes so to speak but have red blood is this an anal fissure or do you think when they stitched my perenium they left me with a bucket fanjo and a tight arse?

Could be internal piles. They only bleed/hurt when you poo. You don't get the itch associated with piles normally.

Is it red blood? That would be fissure or piles.

Darker blood would indicate the blood is "sitting" somewhere beforehand. Or so I was told by the doctor when same thing happened to me.

It is red blood. Shit if it is piles it will serve me right for laughing at dp when he got piles when it was me who was 26 weeks pregnant!

Sorry. TBH, it probably is. Possibly happened whilst giving birth.

Got an internal pile when I had DD 12 yrs ago and just get the odd tiny bleed now and then. I think you can get them fixed, but tbh, the trauma of having a doctor root around in there is far worse than a bit of blood on a tissue.

The day after giving birth to ds1 the midwife checking my stitches said 'oh I can see one little pile'
Well all its friends seemed to join it over the next couple of weeks.
It felt like shitting glass and I bled when I pooed. It hurt so bad that one night I burned my hand on the towell rail that I was gripping on to, and didn't even notice my hand... When I found I was pg again 8 months later all I could think was omg those piles will be down to my kneeeeeeeeees.
Still cause me trouble now occasionally and he is 3.

god that's how I feel when I poo I literally have to breathe like I did when I was pushing in labour! Does this mean I have to show someone else my nether regions or can I just buy a cream and hope for the best. It wouldn't suprise me if it was piles as the pushing stage of my labour wa shorrenous.

Sounds like piles to me. i had lots of bright red blood when pooing after DS1 (sorry tmi!). When you are going to the loo try and breathe out to relax your muscles. Also |(and this will sound odd) relax your toes and your top lip - appparently this relaxes your bottom muscles. helped me!

Thank you how did you get rid of them?

I've never had piles (just like to make that clear!) but I think the idea is to keep stools as soft as poss by drinking enough water and eating wholegrain cereals, fruit and veg (including plenty of prunes!) And get enough exercise.

Once I went to book club and as usual the discussion turned away from the book we were reading, to the subject of piles and similar poo-related problems. All of us were in our 30s with young children. Every one except me had a story to tell. So it's more common than you might think. Your doctor will not be shocked.

sorry no advice but I just pmsl at

'or do you think when they stitched my perenium they left me with a bucket fanjo and a tight arse?'

ledology, I have never got rid of them. They just come back to annoy me from time to time.
Elasticwoman - yes i can tell you have never had piles as I eat all that and drink all that and do all that exercise and my piles still re-appear from time to time 3 years on
I pant while pooing!

For some more immediate short term help you could get some lactulose from the chemist, it makes your poo's softer and is a laxative, doesn't affect breastfeeding (if you are), i had exactly the same thing, took lactulose, drank loads of water, made sure i ate fibre.

lol sparkly!
Flibberty what? You still have them? Bloody Nora!

TY dalry think i will try lactulose..I'm eating alot of fibre anyway as am back on slimming world.

Yes. The other day I ate loads a junk and crisps with the kids all day - no roughage at all and didn't drink a lot. Had to puuuuuuush a hard one out (only on mumsnet ).
Later on when I sat down on a stool I realised they were BACK and had to sort of wriggle about to get them back 'up'.
Urgh.
And there are people on mumsnet who post about anal sex.... obv. not pile sufferers!
Personally I blame the registrar who delivered my son, stitched me up and then surprised me (and thats an understatement I can tell you), while i was still in the bloody ventouse stirrups she says, as she does the actions to go with her saying - 'I'll just POP my finger in your anus to check for any fissures from the birth'....!!!

Oh god I've never told anyone that before!

Oh poo does it efect bf? I'm mix feeding now one or two bottles of formula, breast feeding and expressed.

Don't worry Ledology, if you are combining then the effect of lactulose in a small amount of formula will just make your baby's bum act like a fully bf baby ha ha

Oh good so he'll be pooing after every feed instead of every other?

Anusol, etc, can help along with the lactulose. And sitting on a small rubber ring (or indeed one of those padded toddler toilet seats). When DS was a week old, my piles were miserable and my kid brother produced (as a joke) this mini rubber ring for me to sit on. He was slightly surprised when I sat on it and then promised him millions of peculiar favours if I could keep it...

the thing is it literally only hurts when i poo. Otherwise no pain or itching at all.

Soundsl like an anal fissure to me - feels like you're passing glass when you go? You can get cream which heals up the fissure pretty quick.

what cream?

Anusol or any own brand heameroid cream. They come with a longish smooth applicator so you don't have to use your finger.

Also drink loads of water - really loads. LActulose (still got a bottle just in case!) and I found the suppositories helpful - just breathe out when trying to insert.
Motherhood is so glamourous....

I had this post-partum too, Anusol didn't help so went to dr. (after months of putting it off), she said internal piles + slight fissure, prescribed a steroid cream and suppositories that healed them up in a week and were OK with bf - definitely worth the 5 mns inconvenience of being examined and much easier than trying to constantly manage them with fibre + fluids!