Hemorrhoid surgery is done for a few hours, minutes for some instances and patients can go home right after the surgery. But after the surgery, the recovery can take two to three weeks. The patient who undergoes the surgery is under general or spinal anesthesia but after the operation the patient can now feel the pain, bleeding and difficulty in urinating.
A hemorrhoid treatment applied called hemorrhoidectomy is a surgical removing of hemorrhoids. After the surgery, a patient may experience difficulty in urinating due to swelling of the tissues and or due to spasm of the muscles in the pelvic region. This condition is called urinary retention.
Another condition the patient may also experience is the fecal impaction. They may have trouble passing stools and they be some risk of infection in the infected area. After surgery, patient may also experience anal canal bleeding. In some rare cases, fissure may develop in the rectal area.
