The effect of anesthesia after hemorrhoid surgery can last about 3 hours if it is lumbar anesthesia, or about 0.5~1 hour if it is local anesthesia. There will be some differences depending on the individual’s physical condition.
In the current clinical situation, hemorrhoid surgery mostly uses lumbar anesthesia, the effect of postoperative anesthesia drugs can last for about 3 hours. But the specific situation should be analyzed, for the body metabolism rate of the population, may not last 3 hours, the effect of anesthesia drugs will disappear. For patients with slow metabolism, the postoperative anesthesia may last longer, more than 3 hours.
But some patients with external hemorrhoids, sometimes choose the anesthesia method for local anesthesia, the effect of anesthesia after surgery lasts about 0.5~1 hours, relative to the lumbar anesthesia lasts for a shorter period of time.
For people after hemorrhoid surgery, anesthesia has not completely subsided before the precautions to follow the doctor’s instructions, but also pay attention to keep the anus clean and dry, light diet, pay attention to rest, and thus conducive to the recovery of the condition.