Help! Recovering from Anal Skin Tag Removal - Need Advice!

Digestive health
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Hi,

I just had an anal skin tag or two removed 2 days ago. I thought I was going in for radiosurgical but the doctor ended up using scissors & scalpel and doing it by hand - I wasn’t too happy about that for a couple of reasons, but now I have a big problem.

I went to the loo 2 times and it stung like hell and I blend, so afterwards took a pain-killer and lay down - pain subsided after an hour or two.

**Today, I went to the loo again and pain was the same, but now I have all of these gigantic hard red lumps sticking out of my anus - that look like hemorrhoids!
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I used to have hemorrhoids hence the skin-tag, but my hemorrhoid doctor (different guy) is confident they are healed/healing however these red protruded lumps are even more angry & harder than hemorrhoids have been.

I’m in so much discomfort and pain. Upon calling the doctor, he said it’s just the swelling from the skin tag removal- but it’s far the worst biggest protrusion I’ve experienced. He’s on holidays now for 2 weeks so I feel totally stuck.

I would attach a photo but I’m not sure it is even ok to do that as definitely NSFW.

Please let me know if it s allowed and I will attach one.

I want to know if this is normal, if anybody else has experienced anything like this during recovery of anal-skin tag removal, how long they last, do they ever go away? Any help appreciated, feeling very vulnerable and upset.

I took a sitz bath with epsom salts & tea tree oil. I’ve been using bypanthen and baby wipes + painkillers.

Please help.

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I really feel for you. I had Rafaelo treatment recently, expecting it to be simple and virtually pain free and what you have just described sounds very similar to what I went through. My surgeon has told me that recovery after removal of skin tags is very painful, so I think what you are going through is to be expected unfortunately. He warned it could be two weeks before being pain free.

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yea it is very normal. I as well experienced the same thing. The hardness and swelling will go down. They can prescribe numbing cream. Also use ice as it helps the swelling. Take lots of sitz baths along with your pain pills regularly. Make sure you take stool softners. Pooping is the worst! Good Luck. I had couple hemmroids removed. Its 4 years later now and i would get this over and over again. It has made my life so much more managable its worth it youll see!

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im having this done friday is the pain as bad as having a hemrroidecyomy