I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this? I developed external hemorrhoids right at the very end of my pregnancy which i know is quite common. They did seem to disappear after childbirth but i have noticed that one large one seems to return each month during my menstral cycle. Its nearly 6 months since i gave birth and whilst i think its constantly there, I think it flares up more during my period.
I know my nan suffered really badly with Hemorrhoids so i’m not sure whether they can be hereditary? Should I be worried as I do bleed bright red blood from it sometimes? I’m abit embarrassed to go to the docs but not sure whether I should be really concerned that it hasn’t dissappeared by itself although i haven’t actually tried any creams on it or anything?
Any help or advice would be really grateful ~ Thanks!

its lasted about a week. the bleeding turns the water in the toilet red. docs and nurses would be helpful. there is no pain. it not any harder to go to the bathroom.

I went to the docs to make sure i had a hemorrhoid and sure enough he for sure said i had an external one. He did give me some ointment and some suppositories and I used them both. The ointment really shrunk the sucker a lot. Now every now and then I will have blood droplets in the toilet, and sometimes its streaks of blood. The blood color is bright red. Ever since ive been to the docs and got medicine for it the intervals of when I bleed increase, meaning I went a week without anything, then I went a few weeks, and now I was up to a month or so with nothing. I dont feel pain, i dont get nautious, I dont feel fatigued all the time, Im really perfectly fine. Even when I go to the bathroom it used to hurt because of the Hemorrhoid, but now I feel no pain. Really all I want to know is, if there is anything I can do to prolong the time between the bleeding or completely stop it. I am considering the rubber band removal process too, but not now.
The bleeding would be either be very little amount of streaks, or droplets AFTER the bowel was passed. So I may have an internal hemorrhoid. I am also 19 years old.