Hemorrhoids :(
I posted last week that I think I have developed hemorrhoids. They showed up on Wednesday and the first couple of days were really painful, as in putting me in tears painful. Then the weekend came and I had more time to actually follow the steps I've read everywhere to get relief. I did the sitz bath multiple times a day, have been using tucks pads regularly, stopped taking my iron supplement and started taking a fiber supplement. The pain went away but not the actual hemorrhoids. Now today, being at work for only a couple of hours and not able to do the sitz bath or the tucks or anything and the pain is back.
Please, someone tell me how to get rid of these. I don't want relief I want them gone!! Every thing I've read on the internet only says how to relieve them, nothing mentions them going away. DH has been gone for 2 weeks and finally comes back at the end of the week and I'm so embarrassed. It's already a struggle for me to have sex with how self conscious I feel with all my weight gain and now this? I just want to cry 
I have an OB appointment tomorrow and I swear...if the Dr. tries to just tell me it's just another pregnancy thing or tells me to do what I've already been doing I am going to burst into tears. I'm crying at the thought!
Am I stuck with these until after this baby comes out or will they go away before then? If anyone has been through this please tell me when or how they go away. I can't take this anymore
Re: Hemorrhoids :(
You wont want to hear this....
They do not go away. Ever. Once you have them you have them forever. ;(
I got them from labor/delivery with DD1 and they have never gone away, three years later. Im told by many medical professionals that this is to be expected. The symptoms associated with them get better or worse and as you've found, you can do a variety of things to manage them, but the actual hemi will always be there and, sorry, your rear will never look the same again.
Ive heard that you can have surgery to "Remove" them (they are really a type of hernia so the surgery kind of tucks them back in so to speak) but there are often bleeding complications so many drs will only suggest surgery in absolute extreme cases.
Im sorry. They suck, I know.
I guess the silver lining is that VERY few people will ever see your hemis and those people are likely medical professionals for whom hemis are no big deal, or your husband who should have more respect for you than to be outraged at your funny looking butthole after you carried and birthed his child. ;P
This - I have had three procedures to help (there is a process called rubber banding) which is an out patient procedure to help. It has made things much better but I am dreading everything coming back with having this baby. I have been told by several doctors that it just comes with the territory of having kids and falls under the category of "things no one will tell you about." Talk to your doctor about how to get relief but they might not actually go away.
You won't have symptoms all the time but some hemorrhoids will actually not go away ever without surgery. It depends on how large they were but I got mine from labor and a vaginal delivery with DD and they still flare up here and there. They are much better now and I hardly have symptoms due to the procedures I had but they are not gone and it's been over 5 years. The more kids you have the worse things are likely to get. It sucks basically!
It's funny I actually confessed to one of my friends about this and she was so grateful to hear she wasn't the only one. It turns out she had lived to years with this and just was too chicken to say anything.
It depends how bad they are.
If you have minor hemis, they will likely resurface and retract off and on forever so both the symptoms and the visual "bubbles" you talk about will come and go.
If you have them badly (like I do) the symptoms will come and go but the "bubbles" will remain forever whether they happen to hurt at the time or not.
However, whether you have them minorly or majorly, you will always be more prone to getting them and it will take less to trigger a "flare up" for you than it would for a person thats never had them.
So basically, do what you can to treat them and wait and see what happens. Thats all you can do. You really have no control over whether they disappear or not, it just depends how serious they are.