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So I've had a "fun" two weeks. MAJOR TMI [surgery]
11 years ago
I've been suffering with haemorrhoids [which I'll just call piles from now on cause it's far easier to spell] for many years now [since at least 2006,] generally it was just a nuisance with only really one major incidence where it was a real problem till now.
On October 17th I started my first day of work in a number of years after a lengthy time on unemployment, after only two hours working in the kitchen as a line chef I was in a lot of pain from my piles. I barely made it through the shift, at the end of which I was in agony. Straight after work I went to the GP's and was given a prescription and a surgical referral request [had to wait for the forms.]
Lets say the pain here was a 4 or 5/10 [or what I thought would be a 10 at the time.]
Come Sunday the 19th the pain jumped up to a 9/10 [oh so naïve,] and I had to rind 111 and sort out going to see an out of hours GP as mine doesn't run weekends. More prescriptions, still waiting for the forms, turns out the piles had thrombosed [blood clot.]
On Wednesday the 22nd things got worse yet again and the pain reached 19-27 [based on my previous opinion of the 1-10 scale,] so made an urgent appointment with my GP, more prescriptions, finally got the forms but no-where I could get surgery had appointments so was on a waiting list where 91% get an appointment within... 18 weeks.
On Sunday the 26th things reached a level I hope never to experience again in my entire life, well over 100+ [same scale.] I was in so much pain I was constantly crying, often screaming, on the verge of passing out and could barely support my own weight. I had to call 111 again and they sent out a paramedic to check on me who then called for an ambulance to take me to hospital for a surgical assessment.
Oh, if you've ever had morphine used on you and it worked this might give you an idea of the pain. Many hours later a doctor came to check me out, said he didn't think it was thrombosed and decided he'd try to push the piles in to see if that would help circulation and reduce my pain, holy crap did that hurt and boy did I scream then. He stopped trying and went away for a while till he came back with some more doctors [probably students, it was a teaching hospital] and they gave me 10ml morphine into a cannula in my arm and tried again.... the morphine made me dizzy but didn't even slightly reduce the pain, at least not to any degree that I could feel and they had to give up.
Monday morning and the surgeon came, looked at it and didn't even try cause he could clearly see it was thrombosed and they shouldn't have even tried that [joy.] He scheduled the surgery for later that day, I had the surgery at 7pm and woke up the next day around 7am with the pain nearly gone [like a 1-3] and they discharged me from hospital on Tuesday the 28th at 7pm.
I'm in a little more pain now than I was after surgery but recovery seems to be going well and the surgeon said he wanted to see me again in about 2 months.
On October 17th I started my first day of work in a number of years after a lengthy time on unemployment, after only two hours working in the kitchen as a line chef I was in a lot of pain from my piles. I barely made it through the shift, at the end of which I was in agony. Straight after work I went to the GP's and was given a prescription and a surgical referral request [had to wait for the forms.]
Lets say the pain here was a 4 or 5/10 [or what I thought would be a 10 at the time.]
Come Sunday the 19th the pain jumped up to a 9/10 [oh so naïve,] and I had to rind 111 and sort out going to see an out of hours GP as mine doesn't run weekends. More prescriptions, still waiting for the forms, turns out the piles had thrombosed [blood clot.]
On Wednesday the 22nd things got worse yet again and the pain reached 19-27 [based on my previous opinion of the 1-10 scale,] so made an urgent appointment with my GP, more prescriptions, finally got the forms but no-where I could get surgery had appointments so was on a waiting list where 91% get an appointment within... 18 weeks.
On Sunday the 26th things reached a level I hope never to experience again in my entire life, well over 100+ [same scale.] I was in so much pain I was constantly crying, often screaming, on the verge of passing out and could barely support my own weight. I had to call 111 again and they sent out a paramedic to check on me who then called for an ambulance to take me to hospital for a surgical assessment.
Oh, if you've ever had morphine used on you and it worked this might give you an idea of the pain. Many hours later a doctor came to check me out, said he didn't think it was thrombosed and decided he'd try to push the piles in to see if that would help circulation and reduce my pain, holy crap did that hurt and boy did I scream then. He stopped trying and went away for a while till he came back with some more doctors [probably students, it was a teaching hospital] and they gave me 10ml morphine into a cannula in my arm and tried again.... the morphine made me dizzy but didn't even slightly reduce the pain, at least not to any degree that I could feel and they had to give up.
Monday morning and the surgeon came, looked at it and didn't even try cause he could clearly see it was thrombosed and they shouldn't have even tried that [joy.] He scheduled the surgery for later that day, I had the surgery at 7pm and woke up the next day around 7am with the pain nearly gone [like a 1-3] and they discharged me from hospital on Tuesday the 28th at 7pm.
I'm in a little more pain now than I was after surgery but recovery seems to be going well and the surgeon said he wanted to see me again in about 2 months.
Glad you're feeling better.
I am too XD Thankyou ^_^