Rectal Pain and Pressure

[charlotte1958]

I am glad (well not glad but comforted) that others have severe rectal pain.  Mine started 3 yrs ago and it's really
affecting my life and sex life.  I am tired of the fooling around doctors do and I am unemployed with no health insurance.  I have been on pain meds for a long time.  Too long!  Levator Ani Syndrome is not fun and serious!
My family doctor gave me a muscle relaxer and Tramadol for pain.  I am being sent to a new Gastro doctor for a second opinion.  I have done research and have lots of material on this horrible condition.  I am fed up with doctors who don't give a ***k about your pain,  If they were in pain, you can bet your life they would get pain medication!!!!! It's sad that today the patient has to do all the leg work for these Boozo's!  But I want him to check my hormone level, rule out fissures or endo on the rectum.  I am told and read that Nitro .04mg tablets help.  I may ask to try them.  I also want him to check the pressure of the muscle with a Transrectal Sonogram.  If anyone needs anyone to talk to and share ideas feel free to respond.  Pain is no fun, but this is horrible.  Do whatever you can to keep your bowels moving.  Bio Feedback can help too I read.  Asking about that as well.  


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[beccajo1967]

I need some answer I have a inner hemorrhoid been to the doctor for it several times given suppositories prescription helped for a while. But im to the point now I have to take 2 or 3 laxative every day  at bed time to be able to go in morning . if I don't I cant go then I end up in server pain can't go so at bedtime I take my laxative to be able to go in the  morning. then I cant  seat  do to the pain have inching, burning so sore that I have to miss work. this is so bad then I have to use over the counter cream or suppository to relieve my pain even hot baths..  I need to know what I should do. No family doctor no extra money ...  I need help!!      

[healthy9753]

I have been wanting to post in this blog and the previous one http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Digestive-Disorders---Gastroenterology/Rectal-Pain-and-Pressure/show/236142 and share my experience as it may help some of you.
I had the same symptoms of rectal pressure and it was becoming unbearable. I tried the muscle relaxers and it helped some. But my case was different because I had a hunch what was causing the discomfort. I had received a thyroid treatment that unfortunately (as happens in the US with their radical treatments) was destroying my thyroid, instead of curing the hyperthyroidism as it is done in Europe. I was trying to avoid having to start with the thyroid supplements but after my last blood test when it was clear that my thyroid had stopped working, I started to take those thyroid supplements (the natural ones : raw thyroid) and immediately, like magical the symptoms disappeared. It's been 2 months since then and I've been perfectly fine. So consider taking them, you can buy them over the counter. If they fix your problem you know it's a sluggish thyroid issue.

[Natalieern]

Hi there! I think I’m in a similar situation. My blood work says my thyroid is off and I’m having terrible rectal pain. I’m wondering if they’re related. It’s been going on for about a year and I’m not taking any thyroid medications yet.  I may start soon if I know they will help this pain go away. How long before you noticed your thyroid medicine helped?

[charlotte1958]

Thanks ggreg, Well, I am taking 30mgs of bentyl 4 times a day.  That cuts down on the spasm a good bit.  Then 100mgs of Tramadol for pain 3 times a day.  I can cope with it, but I wanted to let other people who have the same condition know what I'm doing and share their experiences with eachother.  We need to support eachother.  Chronic pain is awful to live with.  Docs have no idea what the patient goes through. I'll check out Research Match!  Also there is a web site called, nextdaytramadol.com
You can get tramadol from a web doctor, and it will arrive the next day.  180 tablets is around $90-$100, but it's worth it, if you have to BEG your doctor for pain meds.  It is legal and safe.  It's the only site that I trust.  Just FYI for anyone I can help I feel good about that.  God Bless!  

[ggreg]

Also you can get botox injections, I think it is, that will stop the muscles from contracting and spasming, which is the source of pain.  You have to get those shots again after a number of months.  I have no idea how that might affect your bowels moving properly, but there are several others working on it, and the shots do wear off after a long period of time, so if you gave it a try, your digestion wouldn't be permanently affected, but a doc who knows about this would also know about its effect on the function of rectal muscles.

I know about muscle spasms, on account of I fractured and twisted my thoracic spine in a car accident to where all those muscles between the shoulder blades are permanently wrenched to one side, and they can get to spasming, and the pain is what I call profound, it has a negative effect on my psyche, and sometimes it can go on for days.  So far, no medicine can touch it, altho I do take several kinds.  But I'm lucky compared to you.  It only happens intermittently, maybe a couple times a month or so.  

I've also heard that walking keeps those muscles and of course all muscles in a more relaxed state, which at my age and in my condition, this is not easy for me to do, but in general it helps me.  And I suppose massage would help that area.  I have a trick I learned for my back, and could be you can do something similar when your muscles start spasming.  It has to do with positioning your body to take all the pressure off it.  I lay on my back with my legs in a chair, and this takes the weight off my spine, and within minutes (most of the time) it stops the spasming pain.  So, COULD be if you could find a position that relaxes those muscles in your pelvis, you might find relief, might break the cycle of spasms.

I feel for you, ain't nothing hardly as bad as having a problem with "digestion," altho yours is not exactly that at all, but when you put the kind of pain I KNOW you have, since I have it too, in a place where you REALLY do not want a problem, I can surely sympathize with your situation.  I really hope you find a doc who is willing to go the extra mile on this thing.  Research Match is just one of several registries from which research docs find patients with particular symptoms to put in a clinical trial.  And I think a neurogastroenterologist or a urologist at a hospital in a university setting might be more familiar with your kind of health issue.  Those would be my thoughts.