Re: Slightly off topic--hemorrhoids

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, you really should call the doc and ask if internal hemmies go away or have to be surgically removed. We'd only be guessing.... and you should really have an answer so you know what to expect from a medical standpoint.Good luck and let us know what she says if you call.Dustyfemifesto wrote: >> Hi everyone--> > I posted a few weeks back about some new and gross symptoms I was> having that were really freaking me out. I eventually got in with a GI> doc who did a sigmoidoscopy (kinda like a colonoscopy, but only for> the beginning part of the colon). > > She said I have internal hemorrhoids. I've been doing a little reading.> and some sites say that internal ones can sometimes cause mucus> seeping and discharge

(symptoms I'm having). Don't hemorrhoidsusually go away in a couple weeks? Or is it possible for them topersist? This all started when I had started taking iron for anemiaand it was making me really constipated> > However, the doc said that she thought my excess mucus was just a> symptom of my IBS. Even though I haven't been having IBS problems for> a long time and even when I did I never had mucus. > > The thing is, IBS is just another "wastebasket" diagnosis like> vulvodynia...it just describes symptoms. She said there was nothing> she could do for my symptoms and that most likely they will pass on> their own. It's already been more than a month.> > Do you all know anything about this? Any of you with IBS ever have> mucus issues?> > >**IF REPLYING TO THIS POST, PLEASE REMOVE ORIGINAL POST, Thanks for your cooperation!

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, you really should call the doc and ask if internal hemmies go away or have to be surgically removed. We'd only be guessing.... and you should really have an answer so you know what to expect from a medical standpoint.Good luck and let us know what she says if you call.Dustyfemifesto wrote: >> Hi everyone--> > I posted a few weeks back about some new and gross symptoms I was> having that were really freaking me out. I eventually got in with a GI> doc who did a sigmoidoscopy (kinda like a colonoscopy, but only for> the beginning part of the colon). > > She said I have internal hemorrhoids. I've been doing a little reading.> and some sites say that internal ones can sometimes cause mucus> seeping and discharge

(symptoms I'm having). Don't hemorrhoidsusually go away in a couple weeks? Or is it possible for them topersist? This all started when I had started taking iron for anemiaand it was making me really constipated> > However, the doc said that she thought my excess mucus was just a> symptom of my IBS. Even though I haven't been having IBS problems for> a long time and even when I did I never had mucus. > > The thing is, IBS is just another "wastebasket" diagnosis like> vulvodynia...it just describes symptoms. She said there was nothing> she could do for my symptoms and that most likely they will pass on> their own. It's already been more than a month.> > Do you all know anything about this? Any of you with IBS ever have> mucus issues?> > >**IF REPLYING TO THIS POST, PLEASE REMOVE ORIGINAL POST, Thanks for your cooperation!

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