Exercising When You Feel a Hemorrhoidal-Type Swelling — Don’t Panic!!

Some discomforts are easy to understand. You pull a muscle, and you know why it hurts. Your knee aches, and you can trace it to a bad landing or a long run. Hemorrhoidal discomfort feels different. It typically presents as pressure, rather than sharp pain. As heaviness, not injury. It’s annoying, distracting, and hard to ignore. What unsettles people isn’t how much it hurts. It’s that it appears without warning, often in bodies that otherwise feel strong and well cared for. This kind of swelling doesn’t show up only in people who neglect themselves. It shows up in people who train regularly, eat well, drink enough water, stretch, and generally feel like they’re doing things right. That mismatch catches people off guard. 

Men: Ever Read About Tampons?

This really isn't much of a discussion. It is a spontaneous thought/thing that I thought just might prove helpful to my species, i.e. the lesser-informed men. My default browser is set to Firefox and every time I open it, the organic feed provides me some interesting articles. These are content pieces without the usual spicy, Instagram-trending refuse that is fed to our smartphones every day. These are slightly better, more likely to be researched type of content pieces that pour in via the Pocket application that Firefox offers. Today, the same thing happened, and among the first set of recommendations was this article: