Hemroid Doctors

Some say that pain, more than anything in the world, makes you feel more alive. It is a positive way of looking at it  whether it is emotional or physical pain. But what if the pain you are experiencing is one in your anus. Well, it is time to act now. But first, you have to make sure if what you are really feeling is indeed what you are suspecting. How do you know that what you are experiencing are hemroid symptoms?

First, what do we know about hemroids besides that those afflicted by it are made the butt of all jokes (but if you have had one I am sure you are not one of those who are laughing their asses off)? Hemroids, just to be certain we are on the same page here, is the infllammation and the swelling of the veins around your anus or the lower part of your rectum. In shorter yet cruder words, it is a literal pain in the ass.

The symptoms of hemroids can be similar to other problems concerning that region we so fondly refer to for comedic purposes. These are fissures (tears of the anal skin), fistulae (abnormal passageway from the colon to the skin surrounding the anus), abscesses (cavity filled with pus), and pruritus ani (anal itching). Hemroids symptoms may be classified to internal and external. Internal hemroids symptoms include spotting a bright red color that may be covering your stool, staining the toilet paper you wiped yourself with, or the toilet bowl. Although your natural reaction to blood is to scream for help because you think you are going to die, calm yourself because it is no cause for alarm. Bleeding hemroids symptoms are only natural since the stool is passing through a swollen area that causes undesirable friction. Another one of the symptoms of internal hemroids is that it can stick out of the anus which of course makes it open to elements that can irritate it and render it more painful. This is what they call a protruding hemroid (which somehow adds insult to injury now that your kiester not merely hurts but you even have a tail now of some sort that jiggles as you walk). The inevitable question then confronts us, what do we do then? Do we simply push it back where it sprung up from and just coax it to stay there? Not exactly. There are proper ways to handle such cases, so keep your hands off it for the meantime. Hemroid symptoms and treatment come hand in hand, so read on. We would not leave you hanging would we?

Enough with the puns (that is probably contending with the aformentioned bane of the butt), let us go to the next. Besides internal hemroid symptoms you might experience another set of symptoms of hemroid. These are external hemroid symptoms. What exactly is its difference from the former? Well, good news. There is no blood involved. You know why? Because the blood has already clotted. So, instead of taints of liquid red on your poop, tissue, or bowl, you would feel the solidified blood in the form of a hard lump around the anus. This one, if you care to be scientific and knowledgeable with the medical jargon, is thrombosed external hemroid (which still translates in our accessible colloquial language to “Ow!”).

When you feel the cited hemroid symptoms above, you should avoid excessive straining, rubbing, or cleaning around the anus. We are not saying that you are not allowed to do your daily bowel routine or clean yourself after you have done the deed. All we are saying is that it is the worst time to get a diarrhea. Because doing all of the things mentioned above would only increase the problem, irritating your anus that may cause bleeding and itching. So, make the necessary adjustments to not even add more to your anorectal worries. Avoid getting diarrhea by watching what you eat, even lessening your food intake, and taking some anti-motility medicine. Also, do not do any strenuous exercise or activity  that forces or strains that part of your body (yes, no sweet sweet lovin’ for the meantime especially when you like doing it in that glorifed style we merely mimicked from our beloved pets).

Once you have become certain that what you are experiencing are symptoms of a hemroid, you can relieve the pain by doing one or both of these things: You can take a bath in a tub full of warm water for about 10 minutes. Right after, you can also apply some hemorrhoidal cream to the affected area. Keep one in your medicine cabinet so you would not have to stand the pain while you go out to the pharmacy, wait in line and feel embarrassed that your butt feels like it is on fire. Statistics say that one million people are affected by hemroids on a yearly basis making your chances of getting one not a remote possibility.