Grade 3 haemorrhoids please offer me some hope

[Tinkerbellxox]

So after having my second baby January this year I got pretty bad haemorrhoids but they went away. I’ve been having a lot of stomach toilet issues and Tuesday had a colonoscopy in which I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Due to the prep for this being sitting on a toilet for hours evacuating my bowels it caused the haemorrhoids to come back. They said at the hospital they’re grade 3 (I’m sure the camera going up there etc didn’t help ) one appears slightly purple.

I’m in so much pain, I have a 3 year old and now a newborn and it’s making my days miserable. PLEASE can someone with experience of grade 3 give me some hope that they can be reduced . I’m now on a cream called scheriproct which I started last night. Using ice gel packs and everything else they suggest to help ease them. I know time will tell but I’m feeling so anxious.

I just want some success stories of people with big haemorrhoids able to get them down.

I’ve heard absolute horror stories of anything regarding surgery and I will not be going down this route. I have 2 chronic disabilities and cannot handle anymore surgery or pain.

Have you been given the suppositories? I had them terribly after dc1 and they took a year to really go down, I don't have any problems now but we are nearly 2 years on. I am very worried about the next dc.

The only thing that worked for me was the suppositories, I also used a supplement horse chestnut, which did genuinely seem to help!

They are so awful, I really feel for you.

No I haven’t been given any suppositories, I’m trying with the cream currently and using ice. Just hoping for the best. The problem is, I have IBD so diarrhoea also makes it worse.

Will suppositories work even if they are external?

Yes they should do, they were the only meds that actually resolved the issue, it took 2 days to take affect, then lots of water and if you can fibre without triggering your ibd. Cream on its own didn't help me!

Hopefully you are sorted now Tinkerbellxox,
but for anyone else, who has the same problem of them coming out, sadly I have a lot of experience of this so I have a lot of expertise also 😔. Mine come out after every BM, as I have grade 3s. So when it first happened to me I had no clue what to do, so I would just push violently, no effect whatsoever. Finally, I realised the obvious, they are stuck outside because they are like swollen balloons with a tiny base squeezing tightly on it (your butthole 😀), so the only way to get them back in, is just get a kitchen paper towel, fold twice and make damp, then just push gently against it. the second you start pushing gently the blood will be draining back into your body, and the hemorrhoid will be deflating, it will not seem like anything is happening, but just be patient! that is the key, after a few minutes might be longer for your first time obviously, you will find it is much more deflated and moveable, then just keep pushing and slowly moving it around, and you will find it will finally slip back inside, to its original position where it should be, and that will very simply instantly give you hopefully 100% relief, as it does for me now. If this does work for anybody, please, please, feel free to copy the technique and post it anywhere else you like, I don't want anyone else going through what I went through until I finally found out this really simple solution 😀.

Whoops! Forgot to mention, once you get them back in, always then either sit down (or lie down on your side or back if you prefer), for ideally at least an hour (or less if needs must), as these positions will always keep them in, and will cement them back more permanently into their correct position. Do not! stand up or walk around, as this will make them drop out again.