Thanks for reply fats...I don’t have any external poles not sure whether there are any internal though. Yes the pain is like a dull kind of ache but more of a pulsating/throbbing kind of pain rather than sharp. Pain is intermittent and infrequent and only lasts for a few seconds with intervals. It’s not a constant pain but comes and goes. The pain is not so concerning for me more I’m more worried about the pressure sensation which is there all the time. I am going to be investigated but as I had initially seen the colorectal surgeon privately and now having the tests done on NHS it’s going to be a bit of a delay getting the ball rolling. I do hope it is a polyp!

Hi, 

Did you ever get any answers as your symptoms are almost exactly like mine!

Stef

Thanks very much c

Hi Gogirl

Did you ever find out what was causing your pain, did it go away?

Hi. Your problem sounds exactly like mine. Goes away when I sleep and comes back after a poo because I sort of expect it too. I go to the toilet with trepidation always expecting to find something nasty in the bowl or on the paper. So I basically go in with tensed up pelvic muscles. I have had it now for a year. Last time it lasted for two years but miraculously vanished after my heart attack in 2011. Didn't come back until last year, 2019 after some quite vigorous physio on my sacro iliac joint. I had loads of doctors looking up my bum last time, none of them could see anything except I sometimes had an anal fissure but then most times I didn't.

i also suffer from General Anxiety Disorder and I am always especially anxious about anything about my body that doesn't seem right. So yes, I tend to focus in on the area and it certainly makes my bum pain worse.

The GP's are useless and don't seem to want to know anything that isn't in their PHE /NICE mandate. I have decided, like you, through my own research ( being a Doctor of Biological Sciences, I do know how to do that), that it is down to the pelvic floor / Levator Ani  muscles being over tight or it could be down to pudendal nerve neuralgia or entrapment. Neither of which the GP's seem to be interested in as the NHS has no prescribed or widely available treatment for either. The only consensus we do seem to have is that it is mainly down to my current stress and anxiety levels due to various recent episodes in my life. There is no denying the more stressed I get about it the worse it gets. A nasty viscious circle.
However, chronic pain is chronic pain, whatever is causing it and it would be nice to know that there were some medical people out there who thought outside the box of the colonoscopy as the being and end all. Until then, my quest continues and my stress and anxiety levels continue to rise.

Just found this forum and have very similar symptoms.

Was rushed in to hospital in February with pain in lower left side which turned out to be signoid diverticulitis and was treat with with anti biotics which did the trick but was down to have a signoidoscopy as back up.

Unfortunately was delayed by Covid 19 and due to happen on 31stJuly.

Had an external haemmeroid last year but was treat with anal cream which appered to work.

Started having pain in lower back which has a dull sensation and always feel I need to use the toilet even after I've been.

If I have a few beers I can pee for England.

Reading posts on this forum has really helped and I will continue to update on the progress of my health.

Good luck people and stay safe

Been in awful pain the last two days with recum pain like I'm sitting on a SWORD! started after a fairly normal bowel movement and has got worse, this morning I woke up in pain and throughout the day my stomach has become bloated and tender too. No upset tummy so I don't think anything to do with a bug. I know this sounds grim, but it even hurts my bottom and all the way up to pass wind. Anyone else get this. Also feel pressure like all swelled up inside?

Hi,

I have been having the same issues for around 3 weeks. Going to the toilet multiple times per day, pain and awful cramps lower down in the abdomen and constant pressure and pain in my rectum and always feel like I need to bare down. I have been in my lower back also. I'm scared it's something serious. 
 

how are you feeling?

Hi All

ive had this pressure feeling for the last 3 weeks. I also had a UTI at the start of this feeling. Antibiotics sorted out the UTI but I still have this pressure feeling. It starts from the very top of my legs, through my buttocks and my lower back. Can be quite intense and difficult to pinpoint where it's coming from. 

I can't say for sure if it's related but a week before all this, my GP ran some blood tests (for unexplained B12 deficiency) and it turns out I have coeliac disease. 

I have a feeling my coeliac disease has gone undiagnosed for some time so I'm wondering if this is some sort of flare up. I'm waiting to see a Gastroenterologist and Dietitian but will mention it to my GP next week to see what she thinks. 

I also have problems with low folic acid and tiredness and my GP thinks that the coeliac disease is the cause for all this. 

Hope this helps anyone who has similar symptoms. 

Evening all. Well enlightening read as I have suffered from most of these for a while and more than physical it has caused great psychological stress hence 3:30am chat. I have had this pressure on and of for a few years. I recently was 'diagnosed' with possible but not confirmed haemorrhoids prior to that prostatitis. Also reflux and possible hyatis hernia many years ago. The last 18 months this pressure has been on and off lasting for up to a few weeks. Relief is by splitting cheeks and passing wind even inserting a finger to redress. I have been booked for a sigmoidoscopy in 10 days time. Last week the pressure returned and occasional sharp pain and I found a pea sized lump on the opening to my sphincter initially painful which I put down to overzealous wiping one night and it had appeared by the morning and followed by the familiar pressure. 
 

as mentioned although finding this chat google is never a friend as you find all the worst things and this adds to the worry. In addition at the back of my Mind is that my dad passed away from colon cancer in his 70's and although I am 30 years younger, I find myself saying some of the complaints he used to say which adds to my worry. Even now a notification popped up informing me that the black panther actor just died from colon cancer at my age adding further worry to my cause. 
 

I await the bank holiday for my go for this lump and then a further week for the sigmoidoscopy. It's been relieving and enlightening to read this thread and is why I joined and contributed.

My husband has been suffering for the last 5 1/2 months with excruciating stabbing pain, so bad he hasn't been able to work. He has been examined by 3 doctors and a consultant who all said it was piles. He is now incontinent and has to wear pads as he's constantly leaking. Last week he saw a specialist after keeping on for an appointment, she was disgusted he has been left this long in so much pain. She took one look and said  that it is not piles, they don't last that long. She ordered a MRI and colonoscopy which he has next week. He had a sigmoidoscopy a few weeks ago which showed he had a cluster of large polyps. My dad had bowel cancer 10 years ago which was caused by a 5cm polyp, he was lucky he had 9" of bowel removed and a temporary stoma, thankfully he made a full recovery and had the stoma reversed. The specialist my husband saw last week was the same one my dad had, she's brilliant so we're feeling very positive.

Jumping in this old thread, but reading your comments I think this is exactly my problem

Jumping in this old thread, but reading your comments I think this is exactly my problem