YSK: Hemorrhoids are a nightmare, and you should do everything in your power to avoid getting them. Shit or get off the pot.

Little external hemorrhoids can be easily treated and will usually go away on their own. Those are the ones you hear most about, so you think they're no big deal. Internal hemorrhoids take a lot longer to develop before they absolutely need to be taken care of, so you don't hear many young people talking about them, or many people in general because it's an embarrassing problem. If you want to avoid them later in life, start developing proper pooping habits now. The surgery is supposed to be one of the worst, with the worst recovery. They leave the surgical wounds open and you have to poop through the surgical site. You also can't take as much pain medication as you can with other surgeries because it will constipate you, making the poops that much more painful. Not only that, but the surgery causes the sphincter muscle to start spasming, so that it squeezes the open wounds in your rectum. It's uncomfortable to even have someone touch the rectal tissue (I would know, since I've now had like 10 different people's fingers in my ass). Imagine it being sliced open and left that way to have poop passing over it and stretching it.