Anyone here had Hemorrhoid Surgery?

Never had the surgery, but I have been penetrated twice. Once by appointment, the other not so much.

I would ignore the problem til it went away.

I had hemorrhoids that were like marbles hanging out my arse. Tried all the topical stuff for a week or more and they never went away. Finally bit the bullet and went to a proctologist. I pictured it being worse - thought I'd be in stirrups or something, but they just laid me on my side and lifted a cheek. All done with local anesthesia, and the shots in the 'roids don't feel pleasant. He was very into the procedure. He was describing it in detail, telling me how he was making incisions and squeezing stuff that looks like raspberry jelly out, and even showed me the stuff on a piece of gauze (not by my request). The part that sucked is that I thought I would walk out of there with a normal arse. No such luck. Takes days for everything to go back to normal so I still had marbles hanging out my arse when I left. I was supposed to do a lot of laying around, take it easy, etc. Instead I went and raced motocross the next night. I brought vaseline with me and was in those nasty port-a-johns at the track lubing up my a-hole all night long. You're supposed to stand up a lot when racing motocross, but most of the older lazy fricks like me would sit most of the race. On that night my arse never touched the seat, and I made it through both motos and trophied. I still consider that 'roid race to be one of my greatest accomplishments in life.

Surgery should be the last resort. I had bad external roids and got them lanced a few times by my pcp but they kept coming back. Finally went ahead with the surgery. Pure hell for a week or 2. But that was a year and a half ago and they have not come back.

Guy I know had it in October. Took a couple of months for him to be even close to normal. As said previously, the recovery was grueling. He now says he would have tried to rectify them in any other way possibly prior to having surgery.