Hello-hoping someone may help me out a bit.
Basically to make a long story short, I woke up with tightness around my anus one day, very wierd feeling. Didn't think much of it and could feel it there for couple weeks, did have some spot bleeding after wipes, no pain. Thinking probably a hemorrhoid which is strange I never had bathroom issues in my 40 years.
But after about 3 weeks or so of this, I had a bm from he'll out of nowhere, excruciating and most painful thing ever. Significant blood. After 3 days of incredibly painful excruciating bm's and just getting ready to call doctor, the next day they actually started subsiding, and there wasn't much blood so I still haven't called my doctor hoping this will self heal.
So after researching and thinking maybe an af, I bought the squotty potty thing and sitz bath. I also got bm' s under control with water, fiber and stool softner. It's made me go more which sucks but my bm is soft.
Now I'm on 3 weeks, my bm's don't bleed or hurt at all, what is kind of bothering me is this dull ache or pain I have after which started about a week ago and lasts maybe like 4 or 5 hours. At this point if it wasn't for bm's, I would think I'm pretty close to bring completely healed. The dull ache isn't excruciating and it doesnt really affect my day, but it us making me wonder what is going on especially because my bm's don't hurt at all.
My question does anyone know if the dull ache is a normal part of the healing process, and if so how many weeks does it stick around on average?