The friend with hemmorhoids started on the Calmovil herbal I had found someone had recommended on the Hemmorhoid forum. He told me this morning that he is noticing a difference already and wants me to order more for him. It's cheaper if you get a couple of bottles at one time, but I wanted to make sure it was going to do something first. Haven't convinced him to do the sitz bath yet..but I'll keep working on it.
But, I assumed he had constipation, and gave him fiber supplements etc..and he told me this morning that he has the opposite problem, which surprised me. I always thought constipation and hemorrhoids went together too...so now does this sound like IBS? (Which I don't know that much about either--but also stress related?)
He probably wouldn't be one that we could convince to go have a stool sample done..but parasites/giardia/ecoli infections are a big possibility.