Three out of ten people at the age of 23 years know how hemorrhoids hurt. This significantly reduces the quality of life, delivering not only discomfort, but also severe torment. Can not only be sick knots, but also the lower back, back, bottom of the stomach and even the head!
At the initial stage of the disease, patients experience various painful sensations. This is due to various factors that provoked the disease. But the main sign of hemorrhoids is dull, pulling and aching pain, giving off in the groin, often combined with the itching of the anus.
Pain in hemorrhoids after toilet and at night
About half of all patients describe painful sensations as intense, prolonged, worse after defecation. Drawing, giving in the groin pain after the toilet is explained by the accumulation in the anal zone of a significant number of painful centers. The receptors involved in the pathological process send impulses to the brain, forming this feeling. Fear of aching, pulling or pulsing pain after emptying can cause the patient to fear a stool, which leads to the appearance of constipation. And they, in turn, aggravate the situation.
In the late stages of hemorrhoids, pain does not recede even during relaxation. A person can not do physical work, sit. Even in the "lying on the side" feel a constant pain.
How does hemorrhoids hurt at different stages?
In the state of sitting, rest, physical activity, the character of pain in hemorrhoids may differ for different patients. This is due to the individual's ability to "tolerate" unpleasant sensations, and in scientific terms, from the pain threshold and the stage of pathology.
The onset of the disease may not appear externally. Cones are not visible, since they are hidden under the skin tissue. Symptoms may be discomfort and itching in the anus, minor bleeding. At the first stage, there are rarely strong pain. The patient may feel uncomfortable while performing hygiene procedures. Stage 1 results in a reduction in symptoms with timely treatment started or transition to stage 2, accompanied by painful sensations of different intensity.
The symptom of stage 2 of the disease is the periodic loss of hemorrhoids. Blood can appear on toilet paper after defecation regularly. Physical loads are accompanied by prolapse of cones from the rectum. Patients complain of constant urge to defecate. Pain can appear after sex, after visiting the bathroom, exercise, give in the groin. Stage 2 can last from a few days to a month. If you do not take timely measures, the disease goes to the third stage.
At the third stage of the development of the disease, new symptoms appear: frequent prolapsus of hemorrhoid cones, throbbing pain is very painful. Why? Clamping the hemorrhoidal external nodes while sitting with the buttocks and anal sphincters as a whole causes an unpleasant feeling: the slightest tension, even cough, resembles torture. Often patients complain of difficulty of movement even for a distance of several meters. It goes on all the time. Even at rest, at night a person can not get rid of it.
The launched form of hemorrhoids is manifested by severe pain not only during physical actions, but also at rest. Inflammatory processes cover large areas, the pain becomes cutting. All the time, the hemorrhoidal cones are falling out and increasing, long bleeding appears. At this stage, thrombosis of hemorrhoidal cones, infection of nodes with pathogenic microflora, discoloration of the balls from dark blue to black are observed. The patient can not go to the toilet, the sensations acquire a continuous aching, pulling character and become acute during movements. Many people complain that with acute hemorrhoids of stage 4 pain is not only in the lower back and groin. The location is much wider.
Remission of hemorrhoids is characterized by the disappearance of symptoms. The pain can not bother for very long, sometimes several months. At the site of the cones, painless seals remain. Acts of defecation do not cause unpleasant sensations.
How long can hemorrhoids be affected?
More than a third of all patients confirm that they experience pain for a long time, sometimes several days, not only after defecation, but all the time. Aching pain of varying intensity, sometimes accompanied by pricking and itching, is felt around the clock. This is due to the fact that in the late stages of the hemorrhoidal nodes, greatly increased in size due to mechanical damage, are jammed. Cones may have bleeding cracks. Symptoms of inflammation can be prolonged, from several days to several months. In some patients, the symptoms pass fairly quickly, after symptomatic treatment, in others - they can persist for a very long time. Why this happens, there is no definite answer. Experts proctologists associate the duration of pain symptoms of hemorrhoids with the intensity of inflammation, the ability of tissues to regenerate, resorptive properties, concomitant factors, which include lifestyle, activity, age of a person.
Where does it hurt with hemorrhoids?
Many patients are wondering if the stomach is hurting with hemorrhoids? Doctors-proctologists say that usually the lower abdomen and inguinal region begin to hurt in the second stage of the disease. Unpleasant, pulling sensations are provoked by malfunctions in the work of the intestine, psychological-emotional state of the patient, in which it seems that the pain is giving to the stomach.
In rare cases, patients complain of pain in the back, including the lower back and coccyx. Experts explain these feelings psychosomatic factor. The patient seems to have hemorrhoids in the back.
If the disease passes into a chronic form, one of its manifestations can become a aching headache, which gives to the temporal areas. This phenomenon can be explained by two reasons: psychosomatic( due to constant stress, destabilization of the whole organism can be observed) and changes in blood composition as a result of frequent bleeding. If the inflammation accompanies the patient not several days, but several months, such a symptom is quite frequent.