Dr Fergal McNamara

Yeah, absolutely.

You know,

Again, it most likely is hemorrhoids.

Nine times out of ten, that gentleman is going to present to his GP and it's going to be hemorrhoids.

But if it's not, we need to.

And if he's in his 50s, you know, you'd go through, as I said, your GP will do a full assessment.

You look at the NCCP guidelines and you'd possibly be referring him for a colonoscopy as well, or at least a sigmoidoscopy.

Absolutely not.

Our treatment is most haemorrhoids that are causing issues are internal.

The external ones are usually more like skin tags.

They're kind of ones that are on the outsides.

They're, you know, they're not nice to look at and they can cause hygiene issues.

But the internal ones are the ones that swell up and cause the problems for most people.

Now, sometimes those internal ones can protrude out, prolapse out, grade four hemorrhoids.

They're a bad case.

But certainly all the treatments we've listed, whether it be banding, injected, our own electrotherapy treatment or surgery will work on an internal hemorrhoid.

Absolutely.

And also talk to your doctor about diet, about dietary, you know, changing the habit.

They're changing, even changing the time of day you go to the toilet.

You know, obviously looking at your own diet, doing analysis.