Hemorrhoid removal in the North West

[Shipshape123]

After my second labour I got quite a substantial hemorrhoid, it went away after a few weeks but left me with this horrible flap of flesh on my perineum/anus. It doesn’t really cause me any issues apart from needing a bit of extra attention when wiping after a poo but I absolutely hate it and feel very self conscious about it so would like to have it removed.

I’m hoping there are other ladies on here who have experienced similar and could give recommendations of clinics or surgeons for removal privately.
Im in Cumbria but happy to drive a few hours for a good and reputable consultant so Manchester/liverpool/preston/Cheshire kind of areas but further afield is also doable

Thanks ladies 🙏🏻

I had mine removed on the NHS and the surgeon was Mr Barben at Aintree Hospital.
It was awful recovering as I was petrified to go the toilet and ended up being really constipated but it was so worth it.

Thanks, I’ll look him up! Be great if I could get it done on the NHS but I don’t think they will as it’s pretty much just for aesthetic reasons 😩

I would explain to your GP about the wiping and ask if it can be removed?

Obviously if you want to go privately, that’s fine. But mine were very similar to how you described and I had them removed on the NHS. The GP was a bit tricky as they kept suggesting creams and suppositories (none of which made any difference!) but once I was referred to the specialist at the hospital they were happy to remove them.

Do be prepared that the recovery is not easy so if your children are still young (i.e an age where they still need carrying around etc) you will want to make sure you have good support around you to help for the first couple of weeks.

Thanks for the advice, maybe I’ll try and see if I can persuade the GP to refer me then. I guess I could lay it on thick about how much they affect me…just feels a bit cheeky haha!

How did you find the recovery from yours? How long did it take roughly until you felt completely healed?
Luckily my kids are more or less past the being carried stage, although my youngest starts school in September so maybe I should wait until then…

Haha I did lay it on a bit thick the GP to be honest… purely because I felt they weren’t taking my discomfort seriously enough.

I had two preschoolers and I couldn’t lift them up for a couple of weeks or drive for a week. I’d say the first 3 days were very hard, then the first few “number 2s”. I had the first week off work sick, but ended up taking the second as the pain was still quite bad. It’s a hard area to heal, naturally, and I found getting comfortable lying down to sleep quite a challenge, but better than sitting upright! Salt baths and large sanitary pads will be essential.

By 4 weeks I’d say I was feeling much better and bleeding had stopped.

To be honest, unless your hospital is particularly light on cases, you’ll probably find you have a bit of a wait anyway. I had to wait to be referred, then I had an endoscopy under sedation but the surgeon felt the piles weren’t suitable for banding so would need to be removed surgically under GA. So then it was a couple of months wait to get in for surgery.

Thanks very much I really appreciate your insight 🙏🏻 so I don’t think I actually have a hemorrhoid it’s just the skin left over but if I pinch it between my fingers I can kind of feel something inside it which I’m assuming may be a blood supply. I’m hoping it’ll be a very straightforward procedure but guess I need a professional to look at it and tell me what they think

I didn't have haemorrhoids as such, it was large flappy skin tags, sorry TMI, but they were happy to remove them.

@Shipshape123I had the same, they were skin tags externally. But when they did the endoscopy they found some internal haemorrhoids too. At the surgery they banded the tags and surgically removed the internal haemorrhoids.

i haven’t had my post op follow up yet (surgery was at the end of last year) but things do feel (and look!!) better.