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Dont laugh! has anyone had a operation on their piles?

43 replies

kbaby · 23/03/2009 23:11

Ive had them really bad since DD was born about 5 yrs ago. For the past yr ive bled while going to the loo so after being nagged by my mother I saw the doctor who has booked me in to do a banding and also to cut off excess tissue(I feel sick just thinking about it)

So ive come to ask if anyone has had anything similar. If so does it hurt, work and what did you have done.

Thanks

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MinkyBorage · 25/03/2009 10:19

I remember that thread! That is hilarious! I couldn't do it though. The whole idea of a band is just so gross, I think I'd be perpetually cringing all the time it was on iykwim!
I'm hoping that my bunch of grapes subsides after the baby's born. Am due tomorrow, but have a feeling they'll get worse before they get better!

Miamla · 25/03/2009 15:39

i was telling DP about this thread and told him i was going to carry on ignoring them. Ooops, obviously i mean my friend is going to carry on ignoring them. He started telling me about how that would be really dangerous, how I could get blood poisoning. Is he talking out of his arse?

Pheebe · 25/03/2009 15:55

Fraid not, thats what the consultant told my SIL - life threatening blood poisoning or a couple of weeks of pain and discomfort...

Miamla · 25/03/2009 16:03

gah! I'll get my friend to make a doctor's appointment this afternoon or maybe tomorrow...

Miamla · 25/03/2009 18:35

doc's appt booked

Pheebe · 25/03/2009 21:22

Well done. Trust me your GP will have seen it all before and worse most likely.

Miamla · 27/03/2009 14:55

oh its not the gp looking that's worrying me my friend. its not even the operation, its the recovery period afterwards

Ohforfoxsake · 27/03/2009 15:01

not laughing. Reading with interest

solowitch · 27/03/2009 15:10

My SIL had them injected and has never suffered since. My mum had them 'topped' or something and has never looked back and my (male)friend had them banded and has never looked back either...None of these people have said anything about suffering afterwards and I was thinking about having mine 'looked' at , but I think I've gone off the idea. I used to worry when pg with Dd and in the bath as I felt like they were going to sucker me to the bath.
Haven't bled with them for years, but they are sooooooo ugly and potentially embarrassing.

Pheebe · 27/03/2009 15:35

I think I should emphasise that my SILs was a particularly severe case, she had internal piles and had a full under sedation op and tissue removed which is what the OP mentioned.

I'm sure there are many less intrusive methods for less severe cases. Sorry if that wasn't clear from my earlier posts (thought it was )

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kbaby · 29/03/2009 21:46

I am dreading it. All booked for the 7th april.
From what ive read on some sites the banding is meant to be painless, with virtually no recovery time and done at a clinic by a GP. Then youve got what pheebe sil had which is the full removal of them via general which is meant to be horrendous.
My consultant assures me I will be having the internal ones banded and an external one removed and stitched. The recovery time is a week. Aparently ive had them for so long that I will never get rid of them without surgery now.
Think I may email the consultant now and just make sure I am not going to be passing out in any toilets with pain.

Oh god I am bricking it!!

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MrsFawlty · 09/09/2009 17:22

Ressurecting this as I have just had mine banded this afternoon. It didn't hurt at the time but I feel a bit ropey now. (Mind you, that could be PMT, am sure I'm due on around now.)

How did you get on kbaby?

ProfYaffle · 09/09/2009 17:28

My dh had his banded about a week ago. He was vaguely uncomfortable, felt like he needed a poo a lot for a day or two but was then fine. He hasn't helped himself though as he's insisted on continuing his running programme (has done about 3 or 4 6 mile runs) impact shock can't be good can it?

MrsFawlty · 09/09/2009 17:38

Prof, that's good to know, glad he's feeling better. Would running affect it then? (No danger of that here...)

(I have to say, that despite feeling like I've been kicked in the arse at the moment, I don't have the hideous itch for the first time in about 4 years. )

fanjolina · 09/09/2009 17:45

I saw a consultant a couple of years ago. He was going to band them, but then wouldn't because I was going on holiday to Sth Africa the following week and he said that the risk of haemmorage whennthey fall off was too high and he didn't want me to go through that in a country with a high AIDS rate, in case I needed a transfusion.

He also advised against the op for removing skin tag from old piles as he said the pain would be immense

ProfYaffle · 09/09/2009 17:46

I don't know for sure but I imagine the pavement pounding wouldn't do him any good, he wouldn't desist though

MrsFawlty · 10/09/2009 18:41

I was in absolute agony last night, is that normal?!

ProfYaffle · 11/09/2009 07:00

dh hasn't been in anything like approaching agony. Hope you get it sorted out.

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