Hemorrhoids Pain / Hemroids Pain

Hemroids / Hemorrhoids Pain Introduction

Hemorrhoids truly are tiny bits of tissue, and it is almost unbelievable how hemorrhoids pain, from such tiny bits of tissue, can cause the kind of agony that they consistently do.

However, it could be argued that hemorrhoids pain, and the distress that hemorrhoids cause, is one of the biggest bad health effects that hemorrhoids can have. The industrialized culture that tends to cause hemorrhoids also often teaches us to endure pain without complaint, but many people don't know the myriad of both physical and psychological ill effects that hemorrhoids pain can easily cause.

Internal and external hemorrhoids both cause their own kind of hemorrhoids pain.

• External hemorrhoids pain can be excruciating physical pain because of their location on a dense and sensitive nerve band.
• Internal hemorrhoids pain is normally not that bad and don't often cause that kind of physical pain at first, but they cause quite a lot of fear, anxiety and discomfort as they grow larger, bleed and even prolapse.

Acute and chronic pain and discomfort both have their own unique effects on the human mind and body.

If you suffer from hemorrhoids, you'll probably endure both kinds of hemorrhoids pain. Acute hemorrhoids pain comes during flareups and inflammation, while chronic hemorrhoids pain, of course, pretty much endures all the time.

Acute Hemorrhoids Pain : Symptoms and Side Effects

Acute hemorrhoids pain is what happens when you shift too suddenly, when a hard or sharp bowel movement traumatizes a hemorrhoid, or when rough wiping sends limbic nerve signals flashing up into the brain.

This kind of hemorrhoids pain can cause continual fear, making people avoid normal life activities.

If fear of acute hemorrhoids pain goes too far, you can wind up living for your hemorrhoids instead of living anything resembling a normal life.

In addition, no matter how brave you try to be, acute hemorrhoids pain has distinct physiological side effects every time it happens.

Hemorrhoids pain is like any other pain, and pain is a red flag that something is wrong with you, that you are injured in some way. You have multiple instincts and body reactions to a perceived threat. Heart rate may go through the roof, blood pressure rises and neurotransmitters are all released to increase the body's ability to fight or flee.

While the fight or flight instinct is meant for the body's survival in extreme situations, repeated and unnecessary fight or flight responses can harm the body's resilience over the long term, such as when suffering from hemorrhoids pain.

Chronic Hemorrhoids Pain : Symptoms and Side Effects

Chronic hemorrhoids pain introduces all new problems for both quality of life and the long term health of the body.

Hemorrhoids pain has a way of focusing the mind on the problem to the exclusion of all else, including work and relationships.

It's not easy to go about one's daily round, doing the work of one's job and one's life, when chronic hemorrhoids pain is always taking up mental power. Again, this is not related to how stoic one is or how much you want to function as normal. The human body has limitations, and while you may be able to work and live for a time with hemorrhoids pain, the quality of work and of your communications will inevitably suffer for it.

Chronic hemorrhoids pain can often lead to anxiety and depression.

Anxiety, because it's in our nature to fear pain, such as hemorrhoids pain, and the consequences of it, depression because it seems as though we'll never be free of the pain from our hemorrhoids.

No matter how much we may try and deny it, we are by nature pain avoiding and pleasure seeking beings.

Chronic hemorrhoids pain affects our memory.

Chronic hemorrhoids pain also decreases our working memory, crippling our ability to deal with day to day problems.

Of course, this lack of ability on our parts only increases the potential for stress, anxiety and depression.

It can seem as though we're stuck in a vicious cycle, with hemorrhoids pain leading to dysfunction causing stress and depression leading to even more dysfunction.

The bad health effects of chronic hemroids pain.

The bad health effects of continual and unrelieved stress are rather well documented, although they haven't yet been fully understood.

As far as researchers have been able to tell to date, it's not a high level of unfortunate events that lead to stress-related health events but rather a lack of good events.

However, when suffering from chronic hemorrhoids pain, any experience that would be good or enjoyable under other circumstances can be utterly ruined.

You as a person, suffering hemorrhoids pain, may not have the ability to have any unmitigated enjoyment at all, thereby depressing the immune system, raising blood pressure and sapping the body's reserves.

More about the pain of external hemroids and of prolapsed internal hemroids.

Although nowhere nearly as painful as a thrombosed hemroid, external or prolapsed hemroids can generate a lot of hemorrhoid pain and, discomfort can become severe, due to the hemroids being rubbed and damaged (cut, ulcerated) by actions such as sitting, walking and running with the anal muscles contracting on and choking the hemroids.

When fully inside, hemroids are normally pain free. Keeping hemroids slippery / lubricated when they are outside is an important step to making the hemorrhoids pain free.

See our Hemroids Home Remedies section for lots of help on pain control for hemroids.

If you have painful hemorrhoids that are inside you, chances are you may have scratched them with a hard motion or toilet paper or hard wiping.  Fibre and a soft wet cloth can help prevent the hemorrhoids becoming damaged, just remember to drink water with any fibre supplement you take, as the fibre absorbs the water as it passes through, thereby creating the soft bowel motion which reduces the chances of the hemroids being damaged inside.

Hemorrhoids pain can also result from the hemorrhoids becoming infected. If your hemorrhoids pain is the result of infection you may require antibiotic treatment or even surgery.

Lastly, spicy foods can cause hemorrhoids pain in some people, as the spices, such as cayenne pepper or chili, burn the damaged hemroid as they pass through.  Think about it, what happens if you rub pepper or salt into an open wound - it hurts!  The other side to that, is that some people report an abatement of hemorrhoid pain as a result of consuming such things!  It's a horses for courses type of thing - what works to aggravate your hemorrhoids pain, may soothe someone else's and vice versa.

Hemroids / Hemorrhoids Pain Treatment

When fighting hemorrhoids pain, you can and should use all options at your disposal.

• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen and analgesics such as acetaminophen offer a first line of defense against hemorrhoids that are acting up.
• Hot baths and ice packs can help increase circulation and decrease hemorrhoids pain.
• The proper diet, water intake and exercise prevents hard, sharp or too compact bowel movements that cause hemorrhoids pain and trauma.

A lot of hemorrhoids pain can also be treated with the appropriate creams or ointments.

Topical over the counter hemorrhoid creams can't be used directly on internal hemorrhoids, but they can be useful on exterior irritation or inflammation whether the actual hemorrhoid is internal or external.

Education can also help decrease hemorrhoids pain.

When you know where that strange bleeding comes from, you won't endure nearly so much mental pain and anguish over it.

In addition, education can help you develop a plan to get rid of your hemorrhoids for good. We, as human beings, always suffer less fear and anxiety when we have a plan, and dealing with hemorrhoids pain works exactly the same way.

Another way of helping with hemorrhoids pain is to remember to treat yourself gently.

You need treatment as a whole person, not just as the sum of your physical ailments.

Explain what you're hemorrhoids pain is like to your family, get their support and understanding.

Create as pleasant an environment for yourself as possible, paying attention to soothing scents, pleasant sounds and a relaxed atmosphere.

Hemroids / Hemorrhoids Pain Conclusion

Both chronic hemorrhoids pain and acute hemorrhoids pain, can rule and ruin your life if you let it.

The negative effects that hemorrhoids pain, fear, anxiety and stress can have on you range far in excess of the other health effects of such a small lump of flesh.

Get the education you need to relieve your hemorrhoids pain symptoms and also to eventually get rid of your hemorrhoids completely.

Be gentle and understanding with yourself and get the understanding of the people you love.

By treating yourself as an integrated human instead of a machine to be pushed until it breaks, you'll get through your hemorrhoids and it's pain quicker and with less disruption to your life.

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