Hemmorhoids with Crohn's Colitis

[Regular Joe]

I could use some input. My girlfriend wanted me to ask some advice on this forum.

She has Crohn's disease in her colon/large bowel. Crohn's Colitis or "Granulatomous Colitis" as it's called. She has a rough time on the loo, quite often, and she has "rather large" hemmoroids as her last colonoscopy report said (talk of the wee-morning hours).

Her GI said she might want to have them surgically removed because they are such an annoyance. She's concerned because of the region of her active disease that having the surgery might bring about flaring or other unknown complications. She also wonders what to expect as for surgery.

Can anyone here speak about this? Your help would be appreciated.

(I can't believe I'm asking for help with my girlfriend's hemmorhoids)

 

[Silvermoon]

I guess one of my first questions would be: are they hemmerhoids, skin tags, or a prolasped bowel?

I have, what my internalist called, a prolapsed bowel. I am not sure if that is a technical term, lol, but basically what it means is, when I have a BM, my sphincter has lost it's elasticity, and part of my sigmoid colon actually "falls out", so there is this big mass hanging there. Kind of turns itself inside-out kind of thingy. 99.9% of the time, when I stop pushing, it goes in on it's own. But occasionally it gets stuck on the outside of my body, and I have to manually push it back in place. (Lovely pic, eh?).

And I would tend to agree with her regarding the surgery causing flares and/or other complications. I have always been told never let anyone remove anything "down there" as it just invites Crohn's to affect the dammaged tissue. (My disease is also mostly in what is left of my colon, the sigmoid colon to be exact.).

As for what they do for the surgery, I am not real sure. I know they used to do a procedure where they kind of "tied them off", cutting off the blood supply, and then they just fell off (lol kind of like castrating calves!). the other thing I do know about that is, my mom had that procedure done many years ago, and they ended up coming back....

I hope others can offer some better advice....

 

[Starrburst12]

I also have Crohn's colitis...don't have the hemorrhoids though. I am from northeast Ohio also and my family still lives there. My dad had colon cancer and was treated by a wonderful doctor at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr.Church. I know he is a Crohn's specialist also. Figured I would mention a good specialist incase she wants a second opinion.

 

[Regular Joe]

They are the "real deal" "hemmorhoids", that's how they are written up in the colonoscopy report. The surgery is "elective" not mandatory.

 

[Silvermoon]

Ugh. On top of everything else we deal with, that would just suck.

Hopefully someone else can help you guys out, Joseph. Good luck to her.