Rectal Pain?

Hi ryleigh,
You may be experiencing rectal spasms which is also known as Proctalgia Fugax. I get those sometimes and the pain is horrible. Sometimes feels like knives. Are you on any antispasmodics? This is what I take when I get them and it seems to help. Google proctalgia fugax and see if that sounds like what is going on.
Take Care

Hi ryleigh,
All I did was add a subject to your thread.

Hi everyone,
I am new to this forum, I don't exactly fit in, I do not have IBS, I have just the opposite, I am constipated all the time which is horrible.
I am glad there is a place for all of you to vent your concerns and can help one another. I wish there were more people on here that suffer with the problems I am having that I can talk to.
Stay the course everyone you are definetly not alone, you have each other and that is a wonderful thing. God Bless you all.
Chunky

I get rectal pain, badly. I generally will sit on the pot, pass gas and eventually I have a bm. Holy cow, it's painful - enough to make me cry and get really nauseus. Do you just have pain or do you go? I would really like to know what causes this and really want to know how to make it stop!!!

Chunky - I have severe chronic constipation and I also have Crohn's. Not everyone with IBS has D - lots of us also have C. You're certainly not alone.

Enjoy your weekend.

Im still being diagnosed with IBS. about three weeks ago I was also suffering with rectal pain, it felt like I had been kicked in there. As usual my Gp was really helpful (not). He prescribed me treatment for piles to reduce the swelling, which he said he couldn’t see. Anyway after I finished the treatment the pain has slowly faded.

 I also get that  aweful pain in the rectum area.. I can be standing in line at the store and it hits me,lying in bed and woken up from a deep sleep. Anything!  The only relief I can get is to sit on the pot until it goes away.  I don't usually have a bm or anything, it just goes away as fast as it comes on.  Sometimes it lasts 30 minutes.  I have read about the UH proc fug thing and I believe that's what it is.. I have also had hysterectomy and endio removed.  Which I Believe started my IBS/d.  A few years ago, I started the Atkins diet and it took care of the IBS.  The only thing is, we've moved and I can't get Heavy cream anymore.  I used it and it didn't affect my lactose intolerance.  I'm a mess huh! haha.  I really watch what I eat now, but I still get the gas and diahrrea from some stuff and to make things worse, My dr. put me on welchol for cholesterol..... It's a real gas causer!  Anyone else have that problem?  I have stopped taking it and go back to the dr. next week.  There's something to be said about quality of life instead of longevitiy I guess.    Dremr

Hi,

 First off I will tell you that I am not a doctor nor do I have any medical training. So please do not take what I say as a diagnosis or medical advice.

 If you could be a bit more specific about the pain such as when it occurs, how often it occurs, if it just when you expel gas, right after a bowel movement, how long the pain lasts, ect them perhaps some of us here at the forum could point you a little more in the right direction.

 I believe I can answer your question about the gas issue though. In my almost 48 years I have passed a lot of gas and so has hubby. Neither of us have experienced the severe kind of pain you described. I have had trapped wind before but my symptoms for that were lower abdominal pain and when I massaged that area the wind was expelled.

 Someone else replied that the cause might be Proctalgia fugax. Google nor askjeeves brought that term up but I did find it at another place. It is also known as rectal spasms so you might find more information if you researched that term. One word of caution (and boy am I guilty of this myself) is that you don't try to diagnose your symptoms, especially as severe as you describe by searching the internet and listening to the advice of us here at the forums (no offense to anyone here). I highly suggest that since the pain is so severe that you sometimes feel like you are about to pass out that you make an appointment with your doctor and have it checked out. It may be nothing serious at all and yet still it can indicate something more serious that might need medical treatment.

 Just in case you could not find the info on Proctalgia fugax here is the definition for you:

Definition: Proctalgia fugax refers to pain (sometimes severe) in the rectum. It can last from a few seconds to a few minutes and often occurs spontaneously during the night. Pain sometimes accompanies orgasm and there may be an urge to defecate. The pain is sharp and gripping but remains localized. Relief is spontaneous but some people find also relief from warm baths, or ice cubes (anything to disrupt the spasms). Medications, such as diazepam, may be prescribed in cases that are very regular and/or severe.

 I wish you the best,

Sylvia

Hi bbtee,
Welcome to HealingWell!
I am glad you found us and decided to participate. Thanks for sharing your pain trick with us. There are many on here who have a great deal of pain that probably wouldn't mind trying new things to help cope.
Hope you stick around and feel free to share any more stories or ask questions.
Take care.

My GI doc gave me a nitroglycerin ointment to apply during an attack of PF.  There have been very limited positive results with this treatment. 

 

I've suffered with this ever since I had my sigmoid removed (rectal cancer, 1999). In fact when I was recovering from that surgery and awaiting a temporary colostomy takedown 2 months later, my bottom just felt very different. When I'd get up from a chair I felt like half of my bottom was left behind (no pun intended). And if I applied pressure (ie hand, over clothing) I felt much better. I was about to strap on a pillow, with belt to walk around it was so uncomfortable. That was my first observation I was entirely new down there. Then when these spasms started, OMG - they were so painful. When they occur it's as if the stool can't come out, and I'm restricted, which makes no sense but my doctor says it does. The walls of my colon become inflamed and irritated and then these spasms start up. I find that if I drink lots of hot tea, walk up and down stairs or even just stand in my bathroom, doing leg or knee lifts, it gets things moving and the spasms die down. All I know is it just feels like I am not big enough or my rectum has clamped shut. I hate when these spasms start up and 9 out of 10 times they've occurred I've been home - thank goodness.

Also a sitz bath helps too. You can add Aveeno or baking soda to the warm water.

Finally, massage and mind over matter mind tricks help too.

They are awful when they hit and they take a while to subside.

Hope you feel better.

Mary

OK. I have something significant to add to this discussion. I've had that deep anal pain off and on since high school. I'm male and now in my mid-40's, and I get it about once a month. I NEVER knew what it exactly was until about a half hour ago. Wow! It is definitely proctalgia fugax. It is the most excrutiating, toe-curling pain in your ass, and there isn't a darn thing you can do about it. Here's when I get it most frequently: If during a bowel movement, I really, really push too hard, I get it afterwards. It's bad. Here's the stranger one: I get it after a particularly intense ejaculation. Awkward to get this pain after sex. Awkward to say the least. It is the EXACT SAME PAIN I get after the pushing too hard during BM thing. It is like a knife is up my rectum. It lasts for anywhere from 5 minutes, to about 30. I also occasionally get it in the middle of the night, and it will wake me out of a sound sleep, it's that bad. It's the EXACT SAME PAIN in all three instances. Well, I'm relieved there's finally a name to it. Just wanted to share.

I just wanted to let anyone who is interested know that when I have this pain, or suffer from hemi's, I use a small bit of vick's vapor rub, or any non brand vapor rub in that area, and it takes the pain and swelling away pretty much immediately.