Do you suffer from Piles? Well, you are not alone. There is a growing movement developing in the bowels of British society for understanding and recognition of this little understood and painful malady.
Piles, or to call it by its correct name, Haemorrhoids, causes suffering to many people in our society. Identifying the number of sufferers has proved to be very difficult though. This is due to it being one of those ailments nobody really likes to admit to having.
Can you remember the day you went into a chemist and started to go red? You wanted to buy Pile ointment but lost your bottle and to hide your blushes, you ended up having to buy contraceptives instead. Very embarrassing indeed!
Many Piles sufferers tend to bump into each other in pub toilets by accident. They are often mistakenly accused of gross indecency by undercover police officers. It must be pointed out how these meetings are random and purely coincidental, being based on individual need rather than arrangement.
To solve this thorny issue, suggestions have been put forward by sufferers to make Pile ointment available in pub toilet vending machines. These are out of sight and this can help relieve pain and embarrassment for sufferers and anybody else who just happens to walk in on them.
The ointment is in sachets and will be inside boxes of a similar size to ones used for other popular products, such as condoms and erectile dysfunction tablets. This should prove cost-effective and very handy to vending machine manufacturers as there is no need to replace any of the existing dispensers. They will be re-labelled instead. Also the ointment is now available in a wide variety of colours and aromas, i.e. strawberry, banana, cherry etc.
Dr Emma Royds has had a lifetime of experience suffering from Piles and is an expert on this subject. She says: “If you have Piles, don’t just sit on it. You are not alone”.
Along with requesting Pile ointment being made available in Blackburn’s pub toilet vending machines, extra soft cushions will also be requested. There are also discussions about setting up a support group for sufferers. Regular meetings would be held in town centre pub venues. It has been suggested perhaps the most appropriate location for these would be the aptly named Grapes Hotel.
