Dealing with hemorrhoids – any advice?

Trust me, all that folk medicine stuff is useless... If those "alternative" remedies actually worked, people would have found a way to live longer ages a long time ago. Only SCIENCE gets the job done, so please, put the home remedies aside. Go see a doctor so they can actually evaluate you and suggest a real therapy. Honestly, conservative treatments like just applying creams are merely symptomatic; they don't actually cure hemorrhoids. Permanent solutions require different approaches, which we’ve discussed before. How urgent your situation is will be determined by a specialist. I know vividsailor7 probably won't agree with me, but your primary care physician simply CANNOT fix this, nor do they have the practical expertise to handle it. That is what specialists are for—you need to see a specialist for these kinds of issues. For heaven's sake, it's not like a common cold that you can just shake off easily. Even general practitioners refer patients to SPECIALISTS when dealing with complicated cases... If your GP isn't helping, then just go to a private clinic and get it handled properly. A general practitioner just isn't equipped to solve this. Listen to me and go get checked out promptly; I know this from EXPERIENCE...

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I feel quite awkward even bringing this up here, but I find myself compelled to ask. 🙈Honestly, I’ve been scrolling through this entire thread in reverse order, and if I’m being completely truthful, a sense of genuine panic is starting to set in.
To put it bluntly, I have been trapped in a relentless, exhausting cycle of gastrointestinal warfare for the last three days—a period of existence that felt less like living and more like a constant, desperate race to the nearest bathroom. It was nothing short of a marathon of misery; I was looking at upwards of thirty bouts of diarrhea every single day. It’s the kind of physical ordeal that leaves you feeling utterly hollowed out and depleted, though, if I dare to hope, I believe I may have finally emerged from the eye of this storm and reclaimed some semblance of normalcy. 🙂 And then, quite suddenly, an external one surfaced. 🤔 Is it truly possible that this is my new permanent reality—that I’m destined to face these setbacks with such relentless frequency from here on out? Or am I merely caught in a temporary storm before the skies clear again? 🤷
And besides, I’m also dealing with this. I find myself wondering what sort of topical ointment you’ve settled upon, and more importantly, when exactly we can expect you to return to some semblance of a functional baseline.

I have to say, I find this particular cream to be absolutely superlative!

Can external hemorrhoids be painful to the touch?

amberfalcon6 said:Do external hemorrhoids hurt when you touch them?

If they're inflamed, they can ache even without being touched. Anyway, what did your specialist doctor end up telling you...?

So, I didn't end up getting my referral to the specialist after all... A different GP checked me out and said she doesn't see any hemorrhoids or anything else at all—she just gave me some Triderm cream to help with the itching. Honestly? It actually worked wonders already! I've only used it once today, but the relief is real—though, when I take a look, there’s still this slightly purple area just below my anus... so now I'm wondering if it really *is* a hemorrhoid after all?