So, I'm suspecting hemorrhoids have joined the party now, but I'm really confused about the pain. Has anyone had internal hemorrhoids that did not prolapse (so you can't see or feel anything on the outside), but caused you miserable pain that felt higher up inside the anal canal? Can such low-grade hemorrhoids that don't bleed and don't prolapse cause extreme pain inside?
I have absolutely zero bleeding, but this pain inside, on my right side, is just adding to the bum misery here. The pain is sharp like a knife (but not the way a fissure feels), and there is also this kind of a pressure like feeling too. Unlike the fissure sites there isn't really much, if any pain, during a BM. The pain sets in right afterward. Absolutely everything I read about internal hemorrhoids does not indicate any kind of internal pain like this. Usually stuff written about internal hemorrhoids indicates they don't cause any pain at all, but usually bleed, and when they do cause pain, it's more of an itchy, sore feeling further down toward the outside of the anal area. This has been going on for weeks, gosh, could it already be months at this point?. and with all my other troubles this has just sent the stress and anxiety through the roof.
So so frustrated at this point and have come to yet another end of another rope with these bum problems.
Secondly, I've heard mixed reviews on banding (if this is hemorrhoids), so when I see the doctor, if it is hemorrhoids, and if banding is offered I have no idea what to do. With a sphincter muscle as tight as mine is I'm concerned about how well it will heal as I know banding leaves a little wound in there. I'm also concerned about how much pain both the procedure and the recovery are going to cause. But on the other hand I'm absolutely miserable like this right now. The pain is not something that just lasts for a little while after a BM. It is there all the time and never lets up. (No indications at all that it is an abscess or anything. There is "nothing" there).