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I think I will print this out and take it with me to my doctor. Seems up to date, too. Thanks!

Bumbutt wrote:What's a South African boerewors?
I think I want one.

Oh I so want one too!!! Instead I am eating just about the same thing everyday and it is nowhere near spicy or delicious. Sigh...

@bBumbutt. Boerewors is the staple of a South African BBQ. The word literally means farmer sausage. It is popular all over Southern Africa. It is fresh sausage, not smoked, and is usually served with a type of porridge made from corn meal (called mealie meal in Southern Africa) and lots of salads. T...

@frustrated. I know exactly what you mean about the $$$ on creams. My latest is the zinc oxide. I am hoping to persuade my doctor to the Diltiazem gel, though he has never examined me. I will certainly be able to give him the low down (excuse the terrible pun). I never in my life imagined pain that ...

I hope that I might be able to get the Diltiazem gel. I already take Diltiazem by mouth, but a very small dose and only every other day. I keep trying different things with the hope of eleviating the pain for more than a day. Tried Zinc Oxide now. Skin did not take to that and have reverted to putti...

Yes, hemorrhoid operations were ghastly. And the second and third were in two days of each other. I had forgotten that, but recently got my records from the hospital where I had it done, and there it was. Gives me the shivers to think about it. Also have had a thrombosed hemorrhoid - how did I forge...

I didn't really know about the skin 'tag' until a few days ago, or at least I didn't understand what it meant. It is also called a sentinel pile, is it not, or have I got that wrong? I have this tiny lump, like a minute hemorrhoid, which doesn't hurt (everything else hurts down there so I suppose th...

Thanks for the welcome. I am indeed doing all that I can. I am basically on a low fiber diet, but enough. Water I drink enough there too. I had a look on the Mayo Clinic site where it stated that if your wee is pale or very light, you are drinking enough. Baths I have not had success with. I am used...

Looking forward to eating things that I miss from all the countries that I have lived in. English Christmas cake, Danish hot dog, South African boerewors, Hong Kong fried rice, USA spicy food from New Orleans. What I will never look at again are frozen small dinners with turkey in them...and mashed ...

Hello! Thought that seven months and counting would be a good subject line for me, as seven months ago is when this ride through hell (ok, maybe I am exaggerating a little...) started. Just standing around in June last year and had a heavy feeling in my anorectal area (have been doing a lot of resea...