For the past 6 years at least, I’ve had hemorrhoids. Not small ones, mind you. Big enough for my urologist to comment on them when I had my first appointment with him.
Since they didn’t bother me in any way and were not painful, I basically tolerated their presence, although I was sometimes concerned that a partner might find them offputting.
A couple of weeks ago, I was having a shower and I noticed as was cleaning my nether regions that I could not feel them anymore. That was a nice surprise. But also puzzling.
They couldn’t have… fallen off, right ? So what happened ? Can hemorrhoids somehow get reabsorbed?
In my experience, they can come and go. Not like they fall off – more like they are prolapsing blood vessels that retract back into place and shrink, over weeks or months. I think when they recur, they’re the same ones that were there before. This is just from observation, and I don’t know if I’m interpreting things correctly.
IANAD, but I think that everyone has hemorrhoids, but the issue in some people is that they’re swollen. A swollen body part can become un-swollen, sometimes spontaneously for no particular reason.
This. I had hemorrhoids in my late 30’s and for most of my 40’s, but since I started walking daily they have receded and are no longer an issue. I haven’t had a problem for over 30 years. YMMV.
In my experience ALL hemorrhoids spontaneously subside. They appear, they last for a few days, and then they subside. I did have one that required surgery, but hemorrhoids that last for years are something completely outside my experience.