long time lurker, first time poster suffered from piles since i was around 18 (31 now!) GP here in the UK have not been great, taking the approach of 'heres some cream... take some laxatives, call in a month if no better' while this for a while did work, since april this year i had pain and discomfort after every bm it was hell. i was losing my mind. the NHS is failing, i was totally unsupported so i did some research and got booked in privately to see a consultant long story short, im 3 days post banding where he double banded 4x stage 3 hems. he also removed some skin tags while i was under i am improving every day, i have some discomfort from the tag removal and some extra gas and a full feeling but overall, looking good so far whether this is short term or not, who knows. but i thought id give a positive story here as theyre so rare. i will update as i heal
Id be interested to hear how you go.
I had 3 stage 3 internal hems banded in Jan.
The bleeding crept back in in a matter of weeks so unfortunately for me it did not work.
did you have bleeding with most bm?
mines gone back to approx 2 times a week 
i really don’t want to have banding again and certainly don’t want the surgery.
The bleeding does make me anxious but if its just the hems I think I can live with it.
Hope you’re doing good.
sorry to hear that!
i rarely/never bled. for me i had a decent bit of discomfort and pain after bm