Fiber supplements can speed up your metabolism, fill you up more quickly, and help you lose weight surprisingly quickly. However, excessive fiber may lead to hemorrhoids if you suffer from diarrhea. Thankfully, surgery like banding can help to manage this problem in many ways. 

Regular Diarrhea May Cause Hemorrhoids

If you're eating a lot of fiber to try to lose weight, you put yourself in a potential to develop serious diarrhea. While some fiber can help to fill out your stool and improve its consistency, heavy amounts of fiber can trigger diarrhea that may remain persistent for weeks at a time and become hard to treat.

Even worse, there's a good chance that all of those watery bowel movements could cause a strain in your bowels that leads to hemorrhoids. Straining during a bowel movement is one of the most common causes of this painful condition and can be difficult to manage without help.

You may want to visit your doctor to figure out if your fiber intake is causing your diarrhea. If so, you need to adjust it properly to mitigate the damage. And if you suffer from hemorrhoids that you just can't seem to manage, you should visit a surgeon to get banding for this difficult and painful situation.

How Banding Can Help

Hemorrhoids may be treated in many different ways, including the use of banding. This simple treatment option utilizes a tight rubber band that is wrapped around the base of the hemorrhoid to eliminate its blood flow. This procedure is the least invasive and is suitable for a variety of situations.

For example, if your diarrhea has stopped after you tweaked your fiber intake, your risk of hemorrhoids has also decreased. As a result, you don't need invasive surgery to manage this problem and can get by with less serious surgery. Banding is also good if the hemorrhoid is smaller and less intensive.

However, you may need surgery in many instances, particularly if your hemorrhoids have spread far beyond your initial site. General surgery can help to manage these problematic areas of your bowel long after diarrhea has stopped being a problem and provide you with the recovery that you need.

So if you're suffering from hemorrhoids and you want to avoid more serious surgery, talk to your doctor about the benefits of banding. However, you may need to go through more general surgery if banding either doesn't work or if your hemorrhoids are too serious for this process.