Piles Symptoms

People with the obvious, telltale sign of piles symptoms, are just naturally reluctant to visit their doctor for that consultation and diagnosis. It is important to remember that piles, more commonly referred to as  hemorrhoids is a very common ailment in the United States for people of all ages, but especially those who are in their fifties and above.  Consulting a doctor when you are experiencing the symptoms of hemorrhoids is always the best thing to do because there are other medical conditions and diseases that have almost similar symptoms like that of hemorrhoids. Your doctor can confirm that you piles symptoms are in fact hemorrhoids and not other diseases or medical conditions.

 

What Are The Telltale Piles Symptoms?

Piles  are swollen and inflamed veins in and around the anus and lower rectum. They are much like varicose veins you might see on a person’s legs.  They are a very common health problem and cause serious problems in about 4% (over 10 million) of people in the United States. Prevalence of hemorrhoids increases with age until we are in our 70′s and then diminishes slightly. Also, piles symptoms will often increase in pregnancy due to direct pressure on the rectal veins. If you don’t have a family doctor to consult with, you can go to other general practitioners like the gastroenterologists, proctologists, and the colon and rectal surgeons who have expertise regarding piles symptoms, diagnosis, and piles treatment. When consulting a doctor, it is important to describe the symptoms in a detailed manner to have a correct diagnosis for your hemorrhoids. These are some of the issues that you must carefully describe to the doctor:

• Pain – The anal area have many nerve endings that is why it is sensitive to pain. Painful flare-ups are caused by external hemorrhoids. When an internal hemorrhoids are prolapsed, they are also painful. But, not all hemorrhoids will give you the painful feeling.
• Bleeding – The color of the blood is an indicator of the location of the bleeding – bright red is from the anal canal and dark red is from the colon. Bleeding does not always indicates hemorrhoids. It can also be associated with more serious medical conditions like colorectal cancer and ulcer.
• Mucus or pus – Having some mucus or pus discharge is not associated with piles symptoms.
• Change in bowel habit – When you are under emotional stress, tension, trauma, or diet change, a change will occur in your bowel habit where alternating or chronic diarrhea and constipation may happen.
• Change in the shape and characteristics of your stool – When your stool is colored brown or yellow and good in form, then you have a healthy stool. But when there is a change in the shape or color of your stool, it can be a symptom of other medical conditions but not hemorrhoids.
• Swelling – A person with hemorrhoids will always have the swelling symptom, but this may also mean other medical conditions like infection.
• Itching – Hemorrhoids, food and medicine allergies, skin diseases, stress, etc. can cause chronic itching.
• Bulges and protrusions – Prolapsed internal hemorrhoids will cause bulges in the anal canal while external hemorrhoids will have hard bulges located outside of the opening of the anal area.

Not all of these piles symptoms will lead to a diagnosis of hemorrhoids. Consulting a doctor is not an embarrassing moment. Instead, it is the best way to find out if what you have piles or not.

Treatment of Piles Symptoms

In closing this portion of discussion concerning understanding piles symptoms, here are the broad categories of piles treatment options. Not all will appeal or apply to every reader due to individual variations in intensity of pain of pile, length of time suffering with them, and personal preferences in the approach you are comfortable with in dealing with this affliction.

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