horrific piles please help

[nma]

someone pls help as am in agony. short story suffering from horrific piles post partum - two very large and swollen external ones cos you cant miss them. tried bath soaks, ice packs, anusol but no improvement, on lactulose which aids constipation. gp gavr hydrocortisone and is helping with pain but cant sit down yet and thankfully able to breastfeed lying down but am so depressed, had horrendous preg and cant enjoy little one or mo toddler. husband back to work few days and dont know how cope. please someone give advice and hope that they will go. terrified wil never be same, they should warn you about this horrific afflication-worse than labour pain.

please help

 

[charlotteb24]

couldn't read and run! i have no other advice other than to literally say what you have said on here to the doctors and hope that maybe there is some other sort of tratment that they can give you to maybe shrink or remove them. Hope it gets sorted soon, i have piles too but very small internal ones and thats bad enough! xx

 

[Weezie123]

I was prescribed proctosedyl and mine have gone in two weeks, I put the cream on and gently push them back in!

 

[nma]

i have been diagnosed with prolapsed piles and given gtn cream which i cant use as breastfeeding even though doc knew that - scared to try. also given emla cream which trying soon. were yours this bad

anyone else offer advice/hope

 

[PeanutBean]

How far pp are you? I had shocking piles and couldn't sit for a week. I persevered with pushing them in as much as I could during my daily herbal bath and eventually they went down and did so quickly once they started. I tried allsorts of prescription and non-prescription meds and tbh Boots own brand was the best. Your hormones exacerbate the problem so you will find improvement as the days go by. I have a toddler and it broke my heart not being able to do anything with either of them.

 

[star99]

I have terrible piles after pushing them all out during labour. They were worse than having stitches to be honest. My hubby bought me a doughnut ring cushion off eBay so I could sit down and I used ice and suppositories to help. They're not gone bit they are much smaller 5 weeks on

 

[nma]

Thank you for your replies, am 18 days PP but didnt discover piles until about 5 days ago after straining due to constipation and then they were huge and multiple as well as prolapsed. EMLA cream has helped loads with numbing the pain and only on day 2 of using it - main concern is the swelling and getting them to shrink so want some hope.

it is awful as feel cant enjoy my baby never mind my poor toddler. had horrendous labour with my toddler and stitches and long recovery after. this time preg was awful but easy labour and was loving the precious time with my baby before this awful piles blighted my life - just feel robbed of precious time and feel down wondering if ever be normal again - just want some hope. i know i have to be patient but right now its all doom and gloom

 

[star99]

Thank you for your replies, am 18 days PP but didnt discover piles until about 5 days ago after straining due to constipation and then they were huge and multiple as well as prolapsed. EMLA cream has helped loads with numbing the pain and only on day 2 of using it - main concern is the swelling and getting them to shrink so want some hope.

it is awful as feel cant enjoy my baby never mind my poor toddler. had horrendous labour with my toddler and stitches and long recovery after. this time preg was awful but easy labour and was loving the precious time with my baby before this awful piles blighted my life - just feel robbed of precious time and feel down wondering if ever be normal again - just want some hope. i know i have to be patient but right now its all doom and gloom

I've been feeling exactly the same . Feeding has also been an issue with baby she gets colicky and irritable most nights. I'm just trying to hold onto the thought that this time will pass and body will recover eventually we are lucky to have had children at the end of the day x

 

[nma]

I know you are right but hard when you in middle of the situation as everything feels gloomy. luckily baby easier this time round which helps enormously. My first suffered terribly with colic and we had him seen by a private cranial oesteopath who cured him - very expensive but his colic was chronic so worth it.

guess just got be patient with the piles and hopefully they will shrink soon, least the cream has numbed the pain so they lot less of a pain in the ***!

 

[star99]

I know it's hard. I feel upset all the time about my tattered body ! It will get better x

 

[kayla1986]

I found witch hazel really helped, just dabbed some on everytime I went to the toilet and within a couple of days felt much better. I had a big baby so pushed a lot and she got stuck so they littrely pulled her out and I tore so this helped with my stitches too. I hope your feeling better soon

 

[tidyroom]

Hi, I can sympathise with you. I am 7 days pp. It is so emotional draining that I cant sit down and nurse my baby girl. It has started to improve slightly today after trying to push them back in. Also I am getting another prescription from docs today so hopefully that will help more. Have you seen your doctor?

 

[nma]

Thank you, mine were so bad and i was in lot of pain so saw emergency gp as it was out of hours and she referred me to the surgeons at the hospital - thats how bad they were and he was great and gave me some fab cream that has helped numb the whole pain and i can seem them slowly shrink - on day 5 of cream and he was confident that if i avoided constipation and took his advice that i would recover within two weeks and certainly within month. the original cream from my own GP didnt do anything for me cos i did have a severe case and noone had examined me at that point.

was bit of a shock to me to be in that state but i would say to anyone else go see your gp - yeah i was embarrassed at first but its your health and they've seen it all anyway - they only get worse if left untreated

try feeding side lying if you can - that saved me as i could not sit for the pain i was in.

 

[lazydaisy2011]

just think nothing lasts forever!
In a day or so it will get easier and easier and soon you wont even notice them
i was literally crying with mine as i couldnt even do a no2 they formed a barrier, i agree defernetly worse than labour x

 

[lazydaisy2011]

sheriproct is amazing by the way beats all the others imo, i have them on and off now when they bother me put this on in the night as it burns as it shrinks them next morning fine x

 

[nma]

they have thankfully improved considerably and hoping disappear over the course of this week. just terrified of recurrence - be on lactulose for life through sheer fear!

 

[MLCC]

sitz bath 4 times a day for 15 minutes...heavenly! or fill up your bath tub and lay on your side as bed you can.

 

[nma]

trying to have the warm baths but hard with newborn and toddler. cream has numbed pain and they are going but since they were so horrific to begin with i wont be convinced till they totally go - live in fear will never go. be good to hear from those who've recovered!

 

[nma]

feeling sorry for myself, piles still here - have reduced though they were huge! to begin with. feel as if will forever have them hanging around got my 6 week check up in a week and was hoping they would be gone by now. back on the hydrocotisone cream - do i need to ask for new cream? am i stressing too much and need to be patient. little one on growth spurt again - am BF so no time to have sitz baths.

will they ever go

feeling sorry for myself any fellow suffers who had bad and i mean BAD PILES who have recovered. feel as if should be compulsory support groups for this sort of trauma!

 

[nma]

anyone???????? am i panicking for no reason as its been three weeks, doc at hospital said should be gone in 2 but although have reduced in size still way to go. will be asking for new cream as the EMLA cream doesnt seem to be working quick enuf. am off lactulose as it made me quite ill so increasing fibre in diet. going to ask doc for something else though when i rang last week they said only lactulose was suitable for breastfeeding mothers - is that true?

anyone else been given EMLA cream?: