Sudden Hemorrhoids After Surgery and Blood Thinners: Seeking Advice

So I woke up this morning (went to bed really late by active ostomy and being here chatting) and as I finished going to the bathroom this morning, I had this weird feeling inside me... I took a wipe and wiped up front, but when I got to my butt, there were hemorrhoid-like lumps!! Never had them before. I have no clue what to do with them. I suppose you can't use suppositories because they have no way of coming out... I used a wet wipe to push them back in. The crazy thing is after blocked bowel surgery at Sloan in March 2024 and waking to an ostomy (!) I was in ICU and actually having diarrhea bowel movements for I don't know how many days. Constant. They would clean me, and I would go again. I was told sometimes this happens and could happen my whole life!! Finally, everything settled down, and it was just ostomy. But lately, I've been getting rectal urges to go, and now I wake with hemorrhoids. I wiped them and tried to push them gently back in and got a tiny touch of blood on the wipe. Being on a blood thinner, I would think there would have been a lot more. Anyone else have this? What did you do? I will be making an appointment today with a colon-rectal surgeon, hopefully not months from now. Scary because I have three leukemias (1 chronic, 2 acute including one rare with no cure but seems to be doing okay). I was very recently diagnosed with large embolisms in my lungs, the right one in a lung lobe near my heart artery and the left in a lung lobe. And also down my legs! I had a procedure done to try to suck out the clot, but after 3 hours of what should have been 1-1/2 hours, doctors tried everything, but the big clot was wedged so tightly in place they couldn't even move it!!! Maybe a thrombectomy(?). I was put on 5 mg of Eliquis twice a day, but barely any blood comes out if I scrape myself. Creepy. I feel like a vampire. I went to the pulmonologist last week, and he asked me if I was doing long drives 2-1/2 plus or just sitting around doing nothing. It was no to both. And suddenly I have hemorrhoids, and my stomach feels like I need to use my rectum to go!! They literally just popped out overnight, which also might happen if I was just sitting around, but yesterday in particular I was very active. I don't know what to do. I actually am going after chemo infusion this morning to have my left double PICC line checked at the hospital as it suddenly just stopped giving blood out during flushes, so there is a blockage somewhere, probably clot-related. Something is happening inside me affecting everything. The newest drug added was the Eliquis, which I basically can't live without a blood thinner now.
Anybody know what I should do? Every time I start feeling better and even more bizarre, every time my grandson, who I love more than life, is supposed to spend the night, I end up in the hospital with some weird thing!

HELP PLEASE??? Any ideas ????
Thanks.

G-Day Granny, I think you need a really good doctor and surgeon. But right now, you need to get to the bottom of this hemorrhoid problem.

Regards, IGGIE

Some residual urge to go out the rectum is normal. It's sort of like phantom limb syndrome. The nerves are still there, and the body hasn't figured out that things have changed.

However, the sudden appearance of hemorrhoids is a bit concerning. I'm glad you're getting that checked out.

The PICC line problem is probably unrelated to anything. It just picked a bad time to start failing. Perhaps they can switch you to a chemo port. That's what I have, and it's worked great for 1.5 years so far.

I doubt your blood thinner is at the root of your problems.

Get this checked out right away.

I was very glad to hear that you've made an appointment about those hemorrhoids that suddenly appeared. That does not sound normal, as hemorrhoids are usually caused by straining too much.
I am on blood thinners for life as I've inherited a blood clotting condition; I doubt this has anything to do with the hemorrhoids. But I can imagine it was very unsettling to discover them.
The urge to go to the toilet is normal; I call it phantom pain. I have a 4 cm rectal stump, and every once in a while, it needs to empty itself, as that bit is still alive. Every once in a while, the mucus and lining of that bit of bowel need to come out, and then it calms down again.
I have had many PICCs over the years, as well as a number of portacaths, which all ended up failing due to blood clots clinging to the end of the catheter. From what I understood, it was fairly normal, as veins do die eventually if they're used too much.....
I'm an unfortunate victim in this, having been in and out of the hospital since I was very young. Now I have no IV access anymore; blood tests have to be done through finger pricks, and then the blood is milked into tiny microtubes.

All the best,
Take care of yourself,

Gracie

PS If you have a rectal stump, your doctor can probably give you suppositories for those hemorrhoids.

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Picc line was replaced with no problems, thank goodness. Primary wouldn't put me in for an abdominal scan, and the new doctor won't scan me because we haven't met yet. Primary said I could probably have it done when I see the doc at the hospital. The residual urge is an interesting concept. Seeing the doctor in a week and a half. Stomach really hurts, but I refuse to go to the hospital again. Too much time spent in hospitals. I've had enough of that.

Wow. I was thinking of something like that because I don't strain. I have an ostomy that just fills. Sometimes I know when it's going to start filling because I feel it crossing over my stomach and then coming through the bag. Weird, lol.
My PICC was replaced at the time they scanned in the hospital to see what was going on. So far, it's working great. Thank goodness. I'm sorry about your issue. I think you're only the second person I've heard of who've had the vein failure issue. It must be painful and bruising. I went to one hematologist who used to prick my finger and milk it for blood. I thought she was nuts. And I was told it can break the RBC (I think that's the word). She also chewed gum like a teenager, wore her hair in a ponytail, and bopped around the office. I felt like she was a high school student!!! I left, lol.

I think of all the silent issues some of us have to deal with, and I find it sad. At least for me, if it doesn't apply to you. I never feel healthy. Always uncomfortable. Jealous of healthy people. Oh well. I'm alive, right?

Nearest appointment was next Friday the 28th!! I've asked primary for help in getting a scan so the doctor has something to look at because of the first appointment, but she won't do it. So I wait in pain. And I'm NOT going to the hospital. I never get out!!!