Thanks for the replies everybody...didnt realise there were so many options out there! The laser treatment sounds brilliant, so I might investigate that further, and I never would have thought of witchazel...I have always thought of that as a skin toner!

The day after starting this thread, unfortunatly they took a turn for the worse and started bleeding...only went for a day thank goodness, so I tried the ice for a while and also had a warm bath that night to take the pressure off, which helped a lot.
They are slowly going down and are not quite so bad as last week so if I keep going at this rate hopefully they wont pose so much of a problem when it comes to D-Day!!

Again, thanks for the tips and advice everyone