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Common questions

Montreal hemorrhoid questions, answered

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The basics

Montreal hemorrhoid questions, generally

The questions people ask before they have decided whether this needs a clinic at all.

You often do not, which is the honest answer. Bleeding, a lump and itching cover hemorrhoids of every grade plus fissures, skin tags and several other things. An examination is what separates them.
Very, and that is worth hearing because almost everybody who comes in says they feel ridiculous for having left it so long. It is one of the most frequently treated conditions there is.
For mild symptoms, often not: more fibre, more fluid and less time straining settle a lot of them. For bleeding nobody has looked at, yes, and that distinction is the important one.
Hemorrhoids themselves are uncomfortable rather than dangerous. The reason assessment matters is that rectal bleeding is also a presenting symptom of colorectal cancer, so the symptom gets looked at rather than assumed.
Either a fortnight of the conservative measures, if your symptoms are mild and there is no bleeding to explain, or an appointment. Ringing to ask which applies to you is free.
A first appointment is about half an hour. A course of treatment, if you need one, is commonly two or three short visits spaced a few weeks apart rather than months of appointments.

The appointment

At your first visit

What the appointment involves, including the parts people would rather ask about anonymously.

History first, which is most of it, then an external look and a brief anoscopy. Then the grade, which options it allows, how many sessions a course would run to, and what it would cost.
Around half an hour. The examination is a couple of minutes of that and you are dressed again immediately, so the bulk of the appointment is conversation about symptoms and options.
One clinician, and nobody else. Nobody observes and nobody joins partway through, and if you would rather have someone you came with present, say so and that is arranged.
Most people describe pressure and discomfort rather than pain, and it is brief. If you have a fissure it can be genuinely painful, which is why we stop rather than finishing quickly.
Your full medication list including anything bought over a counter, your plan details, and a note of whatever you have already tried and for how long. That last one changes plans surprisingly often.
Yes, and we stop. Not push on, not hurry to the end. The external examination usually establishes most of what is needed anyway, and an anoscopy can wait for another visit.

Treatment

How treatment works

What each procedure does, which grade it suits, and where surgery enters the conversation.

A small band is placed at the base of the hemorrhoid through an anoscope. The tissue above loses its blood supply, withers and comes away over the following days. It takes minutes and needs no anaesthetic.
Office procedures are used for internal hemorrhoids of grades one to three that have not responded to conservative measures. Grade four and large external disease are surgical questions from the start.
Because a session generally treats one hemorrhoid column and most people have more than one involved. Two or three visits is the normal shape rather than a sign that something went wrong.
Banding leaves a band to cut off the supply. Infrared coagulation treats the tissue directly under view and leaves nothing behind. Sclerotherapy is an injection suiting small internal hemorrhoids specifically.
For large external disease and internal prolapse that no longer reduces. In those cases it is the correct first choice rather than a last resort, because a band has nothing left to pull back.
No, and being offered that is worth questioning. A band works on tissue with little pain sensation, and external hemorrhoids sit under skin that has plenty, which makes them the wrong target.

Money

Cost and insurance

Why no figure appears anywhere on this site, and how yours is actually arrived at.

Because three things decide it and none is knowable before an examination. The sourced figures for the same procedure span a factor of five, mostly from pages that are not clinics at all.
How many sessions your course needs, whether a visit bills as a consultation or a procedure, and what your plan pays toward each. Session count is the largest of the three by some distance.
Office procedures are frequently covered when medically necessary, but that is set by your plan and your jurisdiction rather than by the procedure. We check yours instead of making a blanket claim.
Yes, and it is the part people forget. Where you stand against your deductible changes what you pay out of pocket even on a procedure your plan covers in full.
You get a self-pay figure covering the expected course before anything is booked, itemised by consultation and by procedure, so the decision is made on the whole thing rather than visit by visit.
Usually, because the examination has to happen before any procedure can be considered or priced at all. You are told how the visit will be billed when you book it.

Afterwards

After a course

What is expected in the days after a procedure, what warrants a call, and what decides recurrence.

A dull ache or a sense of pressure for a day or two, and some bleeding around the point the banded tissue comes away. Both are expected and neither needs anything done about it.
Heavy or continuous bleeding, severe or worsening pain, fever, or difficulty passing urine. Clots, dizziness, fainting or a racing pulse mean urgent care now rather than a call in the morning.
Usually not. It tends to pass without being noticed at all, and looking for it is not worth doing. The bleeding around that point is the more commonly noticed part of it.
They can, and what decides it sits mostly outside the clinic. The procedure removed tissue that already existed; it did not change the pressure and straining that produced it in the first place.
Stool consistency, which means fibre and fluid together rather than either alone, and less time spent sitting and straining on the toilet. Unglamorous, free, and more effective than anything else available.
There is no sedation and no day written off, so most people carry straight on. A quieter rest of the day rather than a demanding one is sensible, and heavy lifting is worth leaving.

These answers

How these are written

Answered at length

Thirty questions in five groups, each answered properly rather than in a single sentence that raises two more.

No unsourced figures

Where a number is not sourced it is not here, which is why the cost answers explain a mechanism instead.

Overlap on purpose

Several appear on their own pages too, because a hub that does not answer your question is worse than repetition.

Asking is still free

If yours is not in the thirty, ringing to ask it costs nothing and commits you to nothing at all.

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Next step

Still have your own Montreal hemorrhoid question?

Ring and ask it. A good number of calls here are people finding out whether they need an appointment at all, which is a useful call to make and costs nothing.

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Heavy or continuous bleeding, dizziness or fainting need urgent care now rather than a question.