Mr Haytham Ali Sumrien 2022-04-18 Person 5 5 0

2 weeks after giving birth to my daughter I realised there was an issue with my bottom. I was in agony when emptying my bowels and for up to 9 hours afterwards which was incredible difficult mentally and physically when trying to look after my daughter. The pain was exhausting and affected every day for me. After going to the doctor on numerous occasions, being told I had haemorrhoids but the pain would not go away, I decided to use my private medical account and booked to see Dr Sumrien. Thank goodness I did!! Dr Sumrien made me feel so comfortable given the area of the body that was causing me so much pain. I knew straight away that he was going to help me and after not knowing what was actually wrong with me for nearly 2 months, he gave me a diagnosis within the first 5 minutes of the appointment. I had a sinus and chronic anal fissure. He was so understanding of my situation and looking after my daughter going through all of this. Dr Sumrien booked me in for an examination under general anaesthetic, to operate on the sinus and to inject Botox to allow the anal fissure to heal. He explained exactly what was needed and I felt excited going into the surgery because I completely trusted Dr Sumrien and knew he would do all he could to sort the issues. The surgery was successful in all respects and the recovery was quite quick. I called Dr Sumrien when I was unsure on the recovery and he was so lovely and arranged for me to go in the next day to just check. The appointment was great and Dr Sumrien was really pleased with the recovery. I couldn’t believe that he was so understanding and got me an appointment so quickly. Unfortunately in my follow up appointment with Dr Sumrien a number of weeks later he saw on examination that I had a brand new fissure in a different place. I was absolutely devastated and Dr Sumrien was amazing and referred me to a scientist to review the tone of my muscles to see whether the tone was too high which may have caused the fissure. I had an appointment with the scientist very quickly due to Dr Sumrien’s referral and got me back in to see him once he had received the results. He was amazing as always and discussed what I needed to do to help this fissure heal. After a little bit more time, the fissure wasn’t healing and it really affected my mental health to the point that I stopped eating and saw food as the enemy. I found it hard to look after my daughter and go out of the house. I called Dr Sumrien who picked up my call even when he was on holiday and arranged an appointment as soon as he could. I went into see him and completely broke down. Dr Sumrien could see how this had affected me and noticed I had lost a lot of weight and made an urgent appointment for me to have Botox again to hopefully allow this new fissure to heal. I was seen within a week! He just completely got how I felt and knew me well by this point so knew I was in a bad place. I can happily say that following this latest operation I am healed!!!!!! I went back to Dr Sumrien who was clearly so happy for me and made such a fuss of my daughter (who I took to the appointments). He is just so lovely and it’s hard to explain in words. The whole experience of the fissures and sinus has been beyond difficult and I can safely say that I would not feel like I do today and healed without Dr Sumrien. If you ever have any issue like this please go and see him. He’s changed my life for the better!