Hemorrhoids Surgery
Surgery should be the last option when it comes to getting rid of the hemorrhoids. You should try dietary changes and life style changes first and only if you find no improvement in the condition you should go in for the surgery. No doctor will recommend surgery on seeing you for the first time. He will suggest dietary changes and also good exercises. You need to cooperate. If you do not, and continue to eat junk food and continue to smoke then the condition may worsen and then the doctor may decide that surgery is the best option.
You should know that surgery is entirely avoidable if you had been a little careful. The problem did not start all of a sudden and surely it must have started as a small lump only. The constipation would have got worsened and the swelling around the rectum would have got aggravated. You would not have changed your dietary habits and you would not have done any exercises.
You are entirely to be blamed for the worsening of your condition which could have been easily cured with simple dietary habits. But old people could not be blamed as the tissues that get loosened due to old age might result in this condition and surgery may be necessary for them.
Having decided that surgery is the best option, the painless way and the best cure is the laser surgery. Tiny LASER beams cut and open up the tissues and a broad LASER is used for burning away the excess tissue that has swollen. The advantage from this is that the recovery process is so rapid that you can return to work pretty fast and none of your good tissues will be affected.
LASER surgery will be done pretty quickly and nothing is there to fear. Only the most experienced surgeon will handle this and you will be on safe hands. What is nice is that you can go home the very next day and you need not spend many days at the hospital. LASER surgery involves a considerable amount of money and you should go for it only if it is absolutely necessary.
First of all an enema is given and the bowels are completely cleaned before the surgery. An anoscope carries out the investigation of the hemorrhoid and this could be painful as the anoscope will have to be introduced into the anal cavity. Already the patient may be in pain and so anesthesia is used for this procedure. Then before the surgical procedure is begun all the blood vessels and veins are tightly tied so that blood does not leak from it. Then the hemorrhoid will be completely removed and the adjoining tissues if found weak and unsupportive can also be removed.
Post surgical care is very important. The patient will experience intense pain. There may also be instances where there is profuse bleeding. The doctor will attend to these things and see to it that you avoid constipation by prescribing mild laxatives till your condition recovers.