![]() So far, little pain and I am up doing laundry, etc. I have found it to be helpful in reducing the swelling of my anal wound and the pain has decreased. ![]() Follow the directions and it won't burn as much. It is an anti-inflammatory pain reliever that is a nasal spray. My doctor had said to take a different stool softener but I know Miralax works for me so that is why I am taking it. I have been taking two doses of Miralax a day and it has totally worked to keep my poop loose and pain free. So daily I have been told to take 3 baths a day AND after every poop. The next day I pooped, but it didn't hurt. That night I took another normal dose of Miralax. So I waited for the bath water to let the gauze float off. I tried removing the gauze early on in the bath but it hurt. I woke up later and ate a small dinner and took a normal dose of Miralax. They sent me home and I drank a milkshake to calm my stomach, then I went straight to sleep. I woke up afterwards with gauze in my bum. However, when I was in the procedure room, the anesthesiologist pushed the meds through my IV way too fast, it totally burned, way more than it burned with chemo. ![]() I have had a lot of IVs and they are way easier with the numbing shot first. The IV was fine because they gave me some numbing medicine. The next day I felt nauseated but didn't throw up again. Then I waited two hours to drink the remaining prep. I got through 7/8ths of the prep before I threw up. I was told I would need a week to recover. She could take it off the skin tag during the colonoscopy. She then said, because I have a previous cancer diagnosis and my aunt died of colon cancer, I qualified to get a colonoscopy. She said the skin tag could be removed in office with shots in the anal area. I had chemo 4 years ago for ovarian cancer so that is when I was most constipated. She said the external skin tag was created from a fissure when I was constipated. She said they don't remove the internal hemorrhoids unless they really have to because the recovery is difficult. I booked an appointment with a colorectal doc who did a quick physical exam and told me I have an internal hemorrhoid and an external skin tag. I lived with it for 4 years until it got too irritating. Jason Sluzevich, M.D.I wanted to post my experience because I read a lot of horrible things about anal skin tag removals. Simple, effective treatments are available. Or you may be referred to a dermatologist for evaluation. Perhaps the condition can be treated during an office visit. If you’re interested in having skin tags removed, talk to your primary health care provider about the best option for you. Sometimes, repeat treatments are necessary if the tag doesn’t fall off or it grows back, or if new tags grow in other areas. With freezing or burning, the skin tag may require a short time to fall off, and these procedures have a risk of skin discoloration - darkening or lightening - following the procedure. A skin tag can be removed immediately in the office with surgical scissors or excision, but minor bleeding or a local infection could occur. Removal of skin tags is not completely without risk. If the skin tag is large or has a broad base, a physician may decide that removal by surgical excision is necessary. For multiple tags, applying an anesthetic cream before the procedure may help. Small tags usually are removed easily without anesthesia, while larger growths may require some local anesthesia prior to removal. These treatments often can be completed with minimal discomfort. If the diagnosis is a benign skin tag, treatments include removal with sterile surgical scissors freezing with liquid nitrogen and electrical burning, or cautery. In some cases, after removal, a specimen may be submitted to a pathology laboratory to rule out the possibility of skin cancer.
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