"jackdude" wrote.

   It would be be if you saw a physician to rule out other
causes but it sounds like a food sensitivity.  
   You might want to start keeping a food journal keeping
track of what you are eating.  For me oranges are definitely
a PIA but grapefruit are ok.  Other things could do it for
other folk.

   later
   bliss -- C  O C O A  Powered... (at california dot com)

--      
bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco

It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
   --from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.

We can't examine you over the internet. See your doctor. Yeah, this is an
embarrassing problem. Don't worry, docs are used to dealing with these sorts
of problems.

Jeff

Witch hazel. Buy a small plastic bottle for about a dollar from Walgreens. Tear
a wash cloth into a small piece, soak in the witch hazel. Insert a slight bit
into your anus, when you lay down to sleep. See if that does the trick.

Have you consider recurrent hemorrhoids?

Alot of people have them and it can cause unreal itching as well as
swelling. Again at times it can be as you said just a nuissance.

Just a thought