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as you are all right so today's video uh it's a little bit different as you can tell from the title and it's a moment of vulnerability for me but i had intended on sharing this story with you because i just feel like you know when your doctor tells you you about a condition you have that you just discovered right it feels like that you're the only one who struggles with it because and the doctor just seems like like a big teacher or something like that you know someone who's not quite on your level and that
degree of separation there is uh you know it's something that kind of can get in the way you know of really truly reaching your patient to the inner core you know making that human connection developing that relationship between the physician and the patient and you know and sometimes i'll bet you guys and the same with me if you're gonna have a surgery and they're just talking nonchalantly they're just flippantly saying oh you're going to have pain but how bad is it going to be oh it won't be that bad you'll probably go back to work
in a few days and don't worry about your pains and your wall control but you know when you're when you're hearing that you're just saying you know i i wish that you could go through the recovery first and then you tell me how it went you know don't just tell me about what you read in a book i want to hear what it's really like and if you haven't been through it then you know kind of like don't even talk to me about it anyway okay so like the title says i got my hemorrhoids banded
okay a moment of vulnerability again okay and um so let's let's begin the story okay um and i just want to give a shout out to my wife she's also a surgeon a really brilliant and smart surgeon and i couldn't have asked for a much better doctor for me she's a fantastic surgeon loves her patients and she's been an example for me and so you know love you honey thank you so much let's put that out there first so the i've got some notes here because i don't want to miss a thing the aenoscopy let's
start there because that's how you first examine to see what hemorrhoids knee treatment or if banding is an appropriate treatment and thankfully i have the experience you know i have the knowledge i knew that something was starting to develop and it's time to take a look so the aenoscopy was my first time ever and it let me tell you it feels nothing like i mean just because i've done a bunch of them does not mean i know what it feels like it's not the same thing at all right as the scope is going in you
know it's not like the finger exam because this thing is about three times the size of a finger and this thing gradually gets wider and bigger as it goes in okay so you've i felt my muscles trying to accommodate to this thing trying to get used to things as she's going in slowly but my muscles are squeezing they're like latching onto the scope because they're struggling to relax it's like what the heck is this thing get this thing out of here is what your anus is saying right and um so once she got it in
i mean that part was you know it was okay you know i kept saying i kept trying to get my relaxation techniques my breathing techniques trying to relax but to me it felt like um i was not relaxed but my wife was saying that you know it's going easily as no you know it's going in right it's it's all good and that was interesting because i thought that i had a pretty good perception of knowing how relaxed my muscles were but that time it seemed kind of the opposite all right as she's coming planning to
come out to take a look you have to take out that remove the inner portion right which allows you to actually look inside the scope and interesting sensation here is that once you pull out that middle portion i felt instantly cold in my bottom end you know the sudden rush of cold air from the room i could feel that it felt like someone put ice cubes right in my bottom end okay and i was like wow that that's crazy you know we take temperatures on babies in the bottom end and it we know it's a
very warm place compared to your armpits or your mouth and it's just like wow that was crazy um because it all i wanted because i knew right when that happened like my muscles must have grabbed that scope hard because it just didn't like that one bit as the scope is coming out it's getting closer to the anal muscles i can definitely feel my muscles wanting to clench that scope and get it out of there but um we could see that there were grade two hemorrhoids in there okay i had you know three little three one
three of them one of them we selected to be the bigger biggest one and then we wanted to grab that one first thankfully i didn't wait too long to get this banding done because it was in a very appropriate size to get banding done okay because definitely i don't want to do a procedure on myself or have my wife do something for me that is going to cause problems right okay so she's got the bandy equipment ready and i'm you know i'm i'm gearing up and i'm really nervous you know uh because it's got risks
you know i i do these with patients for patients you know and i'm i'm very very aware of what could go wrong and so um you know it's it's not a procedure it's you know it's it's a serious procedure so you know she's got everything set up with this scope and everything and when she puts this hemorrhoid instrument the rubber band instrument on the hemorrhoid itself it's a suction type of mechanism here so if this is the mouth of the hemorrhoid bander and this is the hemorrhoid it sucks it up into its mouth and you
want as much of the hemorrhoids sucked in there as possible so that the rubber band can stay on right that way if you got the lining of your anus here you've got this big hemorrhoid that's sucked up above you can land the rubber band right at the bottom of it and have this huge huge hemorrhoid that way it's rubber band isn't able to just slide off and pop off right and so once she put the suction knot i could feel that again there's a like a a soreness sensation and it kind of was a little
bit persistent and it kind of grew a little bit as the suction got stronger and stronger when it was time to deploy the rubber band i could hear the snap of the rubber band it's like pop right and i was like oh my god i felt that you know you can actually feel like something sudden happening to your bottom man and right at that instant i was so scared that i was gonna feel pain like it was in the wrong location okay because these are only meant to be for internal hemorrhoids but i just you
know just panicked for a second i thought oh my gosh like i felt that that's is that right or is that wrong you know are we doing this right or what's what's going on but um as i waited for one to two seconds the pain just there was no pain okay and so then i instantly knew yes okay we're doing it in the right place everything is still a-okay then she pulled the rubber band instrument off and she said there's this huge mushroom of a hemorrhoid that's above the rubber band she said it was huge
she's like oh it's a big one it's a good one and i was like thank you so much honey you're the best and so of course i was really thrilled to hear that because that that's exactly what i'm looking for and you know that's something that i would predict is gonna really benefit the patient okay so what happened after that okay um i get off the table for the first like five ten minutes i don't really feel anything at all it feels normal i'm walking around and like huh i know it didn't pop off yet
but that's that's crazy i don't feel anything but after 10 minutes then the soreness and fullness started to take place it was very soft curve upwards and it landed at about two to three maybe about three out of ten soreness it was not sharp pain at all there was no bleeding um for me but sometimes you can have that and about 30 minutes in it got to its maximum three three you know somewhere around there and it was crazy because the sensation of wanting to poop like i always tell my patients came about and i
could feel at the same time my anus was closing as well the anus muscles were working to just shut for business and um you know i think that that was a very difficult time because i wasn't sure if you know the rubber band was gonna pop off that was that's one thing i didn't want to happen right and so i found myself just unconsciously like instinctively trying to be careful as i move around so i i was like walking around like getting off a horse you know i was like kind of straddling along and it
was the craziest thing because i know it in my head book wise i should be able to just walk around and be normal and then poop whenever i feel like i gotta poop but it it wasn't that easy to figure out and i was being so careful i just didn't want to disturb anything i thought that was super interesting that i acted that way despite what i know all right so that night i was able to sleep fine but the pain level and the soreness level stayed at a three the next morning it kind of
decreased in half 1.5 to two i had a bowel movement that morning and i was so slow with it i mean i you know i was really gentle i barely did any like that initial pushing to get things going barely at all and uh it went fine i was still really anxious about the rubber band popping off but there was no blood and i didn't see any signs of a hemorrhoid ban so it's like well i guess we'll have to look in the long term right passing gas for the first time was also interesting too
that first night i struggled to fart because you're not sure what it is you feel some pressure building but is it a poop is it fart or is it just the hemorrhoid that i feel and so i have to actually like lift up my butt cheek you know like kind of peel it up a little bit and see like you know okay let let's let's try is it gonna work is it going to work and then i get a little soft like of air you know what i'm talking about and so that felt completely safe
to me and that went okay as well but i didn't notice i was kind of feeling more bloated the first one or two days because i was holding in my farts nothing was coming out usually i fart a bit more bit more often but i was definitely understanding why people feel bloated um then came day number three because by day number two excuse me day number two the pain was completely gone and i felt pretty much fine it didn't notice it at all i forgot about it day three comes morning poop and then when i
wipe i was so surprised that there was a ton of blood on the tissue paper i mean i wiped twice and the second one had just as much blood it was like a bomb went off like you know and that's what i think happened is that that mushroom of hemorrhoid finally burst it finally died and so that's where all that blood came from because after that day i didn't have any more blood and so um to this day that was three weeks ago now in my experience and i feel great uh i definitely don't feel
the hemorrhoid anymore um like like that uh obscure kind of like something moving around in my bottom man i don't feel that anymore and so i feel like my wife did an excellent job thanks again honey and my experience was great um and i just hope this experience helped you to kind of get a grasp of a doctor's experience you know i'm not just here telling you spitting out what i know in a textbook or from my experience but i also know what it's like to go through it and so if you have any questions
about my recovery or my experience definitely ask questions and i'll see you in the next one bye bye
