Tere!
One day in July, 2022, I felt something wrong with my anus while I was working. It was a bit painful, and I felt a slight pain if I didn’t sit on a chair gently. I could sit on a sofa and bed normally.
I noticed this during my work, and I timidly touched the painful spot, looking for it. I found something slightly swollen.
Hemorrhoid?
No way.
However, I wouldn’t have been surprised.
I was so into my work that I forgot to take a break, and I was constantly sitting on the chair to work as I didn’t have energy to stand and work. I tended to skip going to the gym because I hadn’t felt good. In other words, I didn’t move my body enough, so it was not surprising to get a hemorrhoid.
In this article, I’m talking about something like a hemorrhoid that I had in Estonia. (It’s nothing special.)
When googling hemorrhoids in Japanese, it seemed that having a hemorrhoid was pretty serious. If you leave it as it is, you will maybe need to get surgery…
No, I don’t want that.
(Well, first of all, I couldn’t bear with the pain.)
I was so worried so I emailed my GP, and they told me there were ointments.
On receiving the reply from them, I went to a pharmacy, and asked a pharmacy clerk.
For the hemorrhoid in the first stage, the ointments are effective enough. As the pharmacy clerk recommended one to me, I bought an ointment called Mastu. It cost around 11 EUR. (Yeah, it was a bit expensive.) My GP also recommended candles to me, but due to the fact that the ointments are easy to use, the pharmacy clerk told me only the ointment is sufficient treatment. Therefore, I bought only the ointment.
The instructions of how to use Mastu were surely written in Estonian, and yet I checked it. It’s straightforward – use the ointment twice a day to the painful area. My GP told me to monitor myself for five to seven days, so I did it. If it didn’t heal even after one week, I was told to see my GP.
However, on day five, I felt much less pain and something-wrongness. I kept using the ointment until day seven, and found out that day five’s feeling was not anything random. After that, my anus condition turns to be good. 😂 Even now everything is alright.
By the way, Mastu contains an additional tube too, and you can use it if your hemorrhoid is in your anus. I didn’t use it because the wart was outside. (However, it’s still unclear if it was really a hemorrhoid or not.)
Besides, since I put the ointment outside the hemorrhoid, I got the ointment on my underwear when I wore the underwear directly. Then, I used a panty liner for periods. It prevented getting a dirty ointment on the underwear.
I think even men can use this idea. Though perhaps it might be a bit embarrassing to buy period products…
Anyways, nothing big happened, and I’m glad that I had a new experience in Estonia. 😂
Aitäh! 🙂
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