"The average woman does NOT develop haemorrhoids from childbearing"...

[Jacksmania]

Said to me with great conviction by someone I know.

I disagree, based on my own experience, what I've read here on MN, and from what I know of among my friends (not that we sit around discussing each other's arses I only do that on the Ragged Bits thread :o).

What says MN? Is this acquaintance full of it? I suspect she may suffer from a bad case of wishful thinking.

scaevola
"Does your friend think all hormone related conditions are somehow mythical? Or is she so self-centred that she just thinks that because her hormones didn't give her one specific condition (of the several which are cause that way) it somehow can't possibly affect other women?"

I suspect that's pretty much it.