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So, I went to see my doctor today—total acupuncture wizard. Statistically, they get incredible results, especially when it comes to calming down hemorrhoids, and while we were talking, they gave me some killer advice on specific exercises to soothe things down there (basically easing those vein inflammations near the anus) and how to massage them properly. (Seriously though, you have to be super gentle with the massage. And listen to this... instead of sitting in a warm bath with chamomile or filling the whole tub with lukewarm water, you should actually use a compress with cold liquid—like chamomile or something soothing like lemon balm... maybe even toss a little ice cube in there if you can. I’m stressing this: since the water is cold, don't sit *in* it; just hover over it and dab the area with a compress, like a piece of gauze or cotton, to cool everything down. Honestly, it sounds like it makes total sense to me 🙂
Scott Davis32 said:I just can't seem to get rid of this thing for good, it keeps coming back, I tried that propolis ointment, anyway I have internal hemorrhoids, but it subsides a little then flares right back up 🙄
Look, I'm pretty new to all this drama, but based on everything else I've dealt with in life... you don't stop treatment until you are 100% certain the problem is gone! What do you even mean by "it subsided"!!? Like, the pain just stopped!? Or did you actually go back to the doctor and have them tell you everything is fine!? I'm heading in for an exam tomorrow. Things have finally started calming down—thank God—but I am absolutely sticking with the suppositories even after the pain or irritation stops. I'll see what the surgeon tells me tomorrow, but I'm definitely going to try and push for a follow-up in 3 or 4 months. In the meantime, I'm staying on top of things with: 1) tea (lemon balm, which is great for circulation, heart, stress, etc.) and 2) those St. John's Wort and aloe vera suppositories.
I think that's the only way I'll ever feel totally sure that everything is okay. And obviously, I really need to overhaul my diet and my whole lifestyle too.
I'll let you know 🙂
Carol Scott98 said:I saw some people mentioning they've used those Hemoroidin capsules from Encian in earlier posts... so I was wondering, are those only meant for when things get really bad, or can you take them for milder issues too? Like, could someone who's prone to hemorrhoids use them just as a preventative measure before everything goes south?
thanks! 😍
Look, I was just at Walgreens talking to the pharmacist, going over the ingredients for that whole line of capsules, and honestly? It’s nothing spectacular. Just a bunch of herbal stuff like Melissa, marshmallow root, mint, fennel, and barberry... nothing crazy. Personally, I think those pills are a total rip-off considering what's actually inside; we could literally just grab the herbs ourselves and brew our own teas for a fraction of the price. You just have to be disciplined and stick with it for at least six months or more. At the end of the day, nature is really the only thing that can actually help us out.
Look, if those hemorrhoids have already decided to show up and make your life a living hell, you seriously can't just sit there and take it—you absolutely have to start slathering on some creams or oils that actually work, because trust me, doing nothing is just asking for more pain!
It’s common knowledge now that pharmacists are making a killing. They just slap some fancy packaging on it and jack up the price to insane levels!
I get that people think these capsules are just packed with herbal extracts that are impossible to find anywhere else... but honestly, that’s just total BS. Let's be real, it's way easier to just pop a pill and move on with your life than to waste precious time brewing a massive pot of tea every single morning just to carry it around with you all day! Plus, people really need to actually look into what they're consuming, because something like Melissa is super chill and doesn't have any crazy contraindications or anything. 🙂 You really gotta watch out once you start using Berberis, man, seriously—don't just go throwing it around without being careful!
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Taylor Green said:So, I figured out a few days ago that I've got hemorrhoids. I started using Fakt ointment last Friday. I actually went to see a proctologist this past Tuesday for an exam, and he prescribed some pills and told me I have internal hemorrhoids, so I should just keep using the cream. The main thing is, there's zero pain. But I'm curious—when I checked myself last Friday, I could barely even see one vein. Today, looking again, there are more of them right on the edge, and they look kind of swollen. Is that normal, or should they have started shrinking by now? Just so you know, my stools are soft, I'm watching my diet, and I'm being super consistent with the cream and the pills.
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Ugh... thank God it doesn't hurt yet 🙂 but trust me, it will if you don't get a handle on it. In the last month or so 🙂 honestly, I feel like I've basically earned a medical degree through sheer trial and error, combining both doctors and alternative stuff.
I was using Fakt cream like crazy—and I mean huge amounts—because otherwise, I wouldn't have survived working those three weeks (I was going through a tube every two days!), and I ended up with this weird issue where I couldn't even keep my anus closed. I came to the conclusion that the cream has some kind of anesthetic in it that numbs the tissue to dull the pain. That temporary numbness caused my sphincter to get way too relaxed, which actually hurts in a really bizarre way. It’s like you feel like your guts are just gonna slide right out and you're totally sick. Now, I've scaled back on the Fakt. I didn't cut it out completely, but I'm using it way less. I’ve been pairing it with St. John's Wort oil and aloe vera suppositories, which has started to calm things down a bit. If I'm in actual pain, I go with the cream, but if it's just discomfort, I stick to plain St. John's Wort oil (for the external stuff) and use the suppository internally morning and night.
The whole hemorrhoid mess is tied to "bathroom habits," but we all know people who have perfect digestion but work themselves to death and never have time to eat right. For me, fixing my diet was step one... three meals a day, never skipping breakfast... but then there's work... ugh, we gotta make a living. Unfortunately, that's where we all have to draw our own line.
I still stand by the idea that we can fight most illnesses ourselves. Most doctors won't even suggest surgery unless they have to; instead, they advise us to
try to tackle it some other way. Sadly, everyone is different, and we all have to find our own
personal fix. You see it all the time—some people swear by a product while it does absolutely nothing for someone else. You've got to listen to your body,
watch how you react to different treatments... pay attention... 🙂 that's the only way to actually get better.
I’m heading to bed, it’s getting way too late. I am honestly so done with these hemorrhoids. They’re giving me a massive headache (HAHAHAAA!!!!). Man, I’m in such a good mood right now. But tomorrow? It’s back to square one. I definitely won't be laughing in the morning.
Goodnight
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Ugh,
Thank God 🙂 and thanks to everyone for making this place exist. Having a spot where we can actually hear from people dealing with the exact same crap makes such a huge difference. It keeps you from feeling totally alone. And hopefully, through everyone's experiences, we can all find the best solution for ourselves. Honestly, I feel so much better now.
I don't feel like some total freak because of what I'm going through.
Life has taught me that almost every illness we deal with is basically our body—in its own weird way—trying to flag our own mistakes to us.
Unfortunately, it's all that subconscious stuff; things our deeper self knows but our conscious mind just doesn't catch.
My whole ordeal started with childbirth, which was incredibly brutal because I’ve always been super active with sports. Everyone knows that women who are athletes for years tend to have really tight muscle tissue and ligaments, which makes "opening up" during delivery a nightmare. All that intense straining left me with the aftermath—hemorrhoids.
Since I’ve never had digestive issues, zero itching like people talk about on this forum, and no food sensitivities, my "only" problem was just this one external hemorrhoid that stayed quiet for a long time. Basically, it was just a visual thing for me.
This went on for years. Then, the first major flare-up happened—and I was trying to handle the swelling with nothing but St. John's Wort oil—and it was a total shock. I couldn't believe someone could actually experience something so uncomfortable and painful.
Luckily, back then, some holistic practitioners from Switzerland were visiting my city. I have to mention, this was like 17 or 18 years ago 🙂 so I had absolutely no clue what kind of alternative medicine they even practiced.
After seeing them for an exam, they gave me this tiny little pill to put under my tongue based on their "diagnosis": ...that I was essentially unhappy with my current life situation and was subconsciously punishing myself for it. I have to admit, I was fully aware of how heavy my life felt at the time and how much I just wanted everything to be over 🙂 but punishing myself like that... hahaha... that just didn't fly with me. 🙂 ...Like, would I really be crazy enough to subconsciously sabotage myself 🙂 and cause myself all this pain and misery?
They tried explaining that it was a physical reaction—a subconscious response to my conscious thoughts... a way the body reacts to how we think.
Anyway, after taking that little pill—and that theory really got me thinking—everything just vanished into thin air... except for that "little traitor" that stayed right where it was.
Seventeen years have passed since then—both on the calendar and in my life—and I’ve had minimal trouble with hemorrhoids, usually only when I'm being super physically active (I work in interior design, so I'm climbing ladders and doing heavy lifting quite often). And again, I want to emphasize that up until recently, I handled everything with just St. John's Wort oil.
Until this year.
Three weeks ago, they flared up big time, right when I was prepping for a huge project that lasted three days. I tried the oil again, but it did absolutely nothing. Every single hour, I was feeling worse and worse, both physically and mentally... wondering how on earth I was going to power through this job while feeling this miserable.
That's when I saw this flashy commercial on TV about a brand-new hemorrhoid product and how effective it supposedly was. I rushed to the pharmacy and bought it $43. Personally, I don't think anything is too expensive if it stops this thing from getting worse. I figured if it was new, it had to be the best. It's called HemoClin. I used it for 15 days, and the situation just kept spiraling. The pain got worse, and I was terrified I wouldn't make it through the job. I stubbornly kept using that gel day after day, praying it would eventually kick in. Sadly, I just wasted days of my life before I finally found out about and bought Faktu cream, and wow, what a difference. HemoClin is just a watery gel... in my experience, compared to the creamy Faktu, it's way less effective.
Honestly, I’m just using one cream every three days because it’s the only thing giving me any relief. God knows if that’s actually healthy or what, but hey,
I’m just chilling at home today since work was a total madhouse, and honestly, I feel way better. These last three weeks of absolute hell have taught me so much about hemorrhoids, and I’ve been chatting up tons of people to swap stories. I even heard that folks out in the Appalachian Mountains swear by this dandelion salve for these kinds of issues, and they say it works wonders.
I can't really vouch for it though, since I haven't tried it myself yet.
In the meantime, I went ahead and ordered some St. John's Wort and Aloe Vera suppositories from the pharmacy on my own. St. John's Wort is supposedly super effective, and everyone knows Aloe Vera is amazing and has those anti-cancer properties too. Usually, women use these for gynecological stuff, but common sense tells me they might actually help our situation too. Up until now, you could only find them imported from overseas because our local pharmaceutical companies don't make them, but I found out a local Walgreens near me does custom orders, so I’m gonna see if they work for gut issues too.
I’m seriously praying they actually work 🙂 for my hemorrhoids so I can eventually pass the tip along to some of you... if they don't, 🙂 at least I can warn you guys not to bother trying them 🙂
You just have to try everything... anything to avoid the knife, if that's even possible. Surgery is such a massive shock to the system, not to mention the sheer terror of the recovery or the fear of everything going wrong, only for the hemorrhoids to come right back anyway...
Bottom line: we can't ignore the fact that my hemorrhoids started acting totally crazy right when I was prepping for that brutal job, and now that the stress is over, things are finally settling down.
So,
maybe we should all stop and think about what our bodies are actually trying to tell us... like, did we miss something? What kind of headspace have we been in lately? 🙂hahaha... alright, enough hemorrhoid talk for one night... goodnight everyone, and I hope you all find some relief soon 🙂