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I went in to the ER with a small thrombosed one about 10 years ago. The situation slowly got worse. I didn't always have blood but eventually they had to always be manually "reduced" by pushing them back in. For years I was just wiping hemorrhoids. That gets old. Even though they're NOT cancer and do not become cancer, you can imagine the stress. I needed relief from that just as much as the medical side.

I was terrible about all types of natural ways I could have helped them. I have never had a great diet and when Redbull hit the scene I was drinking three a day. Today, I'm much more mindful of what I put in my body. My bowel movements went from one a day to one every two days. That scared me and still needs to be worked on.

The surgery uses Doppler to locate the arteries feeding the hemorrhoids. It runs multiple rounds of stitching around the artery and then drops down to the hemorrhoid. Once it's at the bottom of the hemorrhoid they basically tie it into a knot where the artery was and it lifts the hemorrhoids up higher. No actual cutting. This process returns the anatomy and cuts of the blood supply to the hemorrhoids. Super cool technology.

The wait was out of fear. Nothing more. Lots of horror stories on the internet mine was nothing like that at all

The mental relief is just as valuable. I was afraid of this surgery for years, I'm so thankful that recovery is nothing like I imagined.

Bad diet, genetics, sitting too long on the toilet. They can all contribute. The statistics on how many people suffer from them is surprising.