Ngala - I can't believe you made it throuth pregancy and now the 'roids!

Pharmacy cream is good. Pear juice to soften stools is good. Good toilet posture helps.

If they do get painful, go to the docs sooner rather than later - they can lance them (they get painful when clots form!) and that hurts like the final few contractions! But before then, the cream they have to prescribe is better than the pharmacy stuff

(and sometimes they will burst, which is also bloody & painful)