Please please, please, please - do you have any advice on painful piles?

[ithurts]

I've changed my name so if anyone who knows me irl searches on my name they don't find this, as I don't want to share my arse problems. I am in agony with piles, over a month now. My GP prescribed cream, proctosydl I think. I've been using it for a week. He said there is a man at the hospital who injects them if the cream doesn't work but I would like to avoid this at all costs due to the cringe and pain factor.
I eat lots of veg, am not constipated or pregnant but the pain is so bad it sometimes wakes me up at night, as it has done now. I suppose that's because lying down on my back puts pressure on them, does anyone know? I've taken painkillers just now but please if you have any great advice, share it with me here please.
Thanks.

Oh you poor thing. I've never had them but posting this to keep you at the top of Active Convo's (well for now anyway)

ithurts

Please, please see your GP again and get referred to a specialist. Embarrassment is a big factor here but you must get this sorted out. The usual treatments are just not working.

Piles are really varicose veins and are often caused by pressure and or straining. Injection of piles is not all that awful believe you me (these people won't be embarrassed by your problem and they've seen all this and worse before now) and it can really help.

Some more info for you:-

The main cause of haemorrhoids is constipation. If you have constipation over a prolonged period of time, and have to strain to pass large stools (faeces), it can damage the lining of your anal canal. The increased pressure in the blood vessels of your back- passage, causes them to swell, resulting in the formation of haemorrhoids.

Anything that restricts the free upward flow of blood through the blood vessels of the rectum, will lead to an increase in the pressure within these vessels. For example, the weight of a baby forming in your womb can press on the veins of your rectum and may actually press on the main blood vessel that returns blood to your heart, and this is why haemorrhoids are common during pregnancy.

If you are overweight or do a lot of heavy lifting you are more prone to haemorrhoids. Sitting on cold, hard surfaces, standing for long periods of time, and doing sedentary work, does not cause haemorrhoids.

Eating a high fibre diet is also beneficial.

ah yes, farmers - my specialist subject. i've tried the cream you mention but to be honest found anusol more effective.

pile tying/injecting is a monster that lurks threatentingly in my future too, especially am pg again.

one tip (sorry to anyone breakfasting): when they're bad, do not wipe. at all. get in a warm bath after going to the loo and squirt with a jet of water (sports squeezy bottle essential). far less painful and won't aggravate them.

good luck

It must be agony for you. I'm guessing the piles have prolapsed, you can use ice packs to reduce them. At work we use gloves, filled with water & frozen. a "frozen finger" can be snapped off, wrapped in paper towels, to avoid skin damage, placed against the area, and changed at regular intervals, also bed rest.

Am almost 30 weeks pregnant with second and the all too familiar has happened again in this pregnancy - I have the most horrendous prolapsed piles - can' sleep, have difficulty walking (but have to walk my 3 and a 1/2 year old backwards and forwards to nursery in complete agony) am definitely going to try and get them operated on after the birth of this baby and am absolutely dreading the piles more than the stitches after the birth - have found that the spray you can get is quite good as you don't have too touch them - but if yours are anything like mine nothing seems to work - short of getting this baby out of me!

Have def had them when not pregnant aswell but they seemed to slightly less obstinate!

I'm getting booked in for the op too! I know people who've been 'done' and they've told me that it makes life SO much better.

Like you, the cream and suppositories don't work. Oh the joys of childbirth!

My Mum recommended Tcp ointment, better than Anusol. But do go back to the Dr, you know you will feel so much better afterwards!

Have been back to doctors and they discovered that the reason for my agony was that one of mine is thrombosed (I think it means twisted). The nurse took one look and called me 'poor lamb' - and even though it is really undignified it felt so ggod to at last ave someone realise how much pain I have been in.

When your piles are thrombosed you can go to hospital and a surgeon will cut into the twisted thing and let it bleed (gross I know but apparently instant relief), or you can just ride it out and let them sort themselves out which may take longer and be more painful!

My full and undivided simpathies and empathies going through a similar nightmare!!!

the only people who laugh about piles have never had them
if they are not too severe, try a salt bath as hot as you can bear, then a little johnsons baby lotion before bed. i always found that helped

I've found that a gentle application of vaseline is very useful to prevent friction (which makes them even more sore.....) I always use when they first appear and before I need to poo (TMI? ) and this alone helps them quietly disappear without too much agony.

I'd look into the intervention thingy tho if they were really bad - sod the embarrassment. Feel for you.......