If you’re pregnant, first and foremost, congratulations! Pregnancy is a time filled with many exciting emotions, physical woes, hormonal changes, and mood swings. You may also be familiar with pregnancy hemorrhoids, a pesky condition that causes itching and burning around the anus and pain during bowel movements. In this post, we’ll take a look at what causes pregnancy hemorrhoids, and answer a couple of questions we hear frequently at the Colorectal Clinic of Tampa Bay: how do pregnancy hemorrhoids go away and how long do pregnancy hemorrhoids last?