Rectal Bleeding information, causes, symptoms and treatments

[funkateer17]

Hey, I've been covering my meals in hot sauce for the last 20 years. Could this have finally taken it's toll on me and cused bleeding?

[baruavice]

Jerry Lawler needs to hear about this.

[munchkinsmomable]

ONE MORE thing...you can't ALWAYS believe that "increasingyour fiber and water intake" will improve your constipation. As in my case, that doctor recommendation only served to exacerbate, compound and increase my constipation to the point of feeling like I was carrying a large brick around inside of me every few days. As hard as giving birth the first time was, it definitely paled in comparison to passing one of those babies.

[munchkinsmomable]

So fissures are NOT painful? Ok, then I misdiagnosed whatever was going on with me between the 10-yr obstipation and the onset of severe UC. I would have EXTREMELY painful spasms after every bowel movement to the point of having to lie down on the couch rocking bath and forth until the spasms would end. I think that was the absolute most horrific part of my GI past. And that was just one horrible symptom. You don't even want to know the rest. So, yeah, I feel/have felt, your pain.

[munchkinsmomable]

@Mrsteddyz But it does make sense that they would remove a section of your intestine that had turned gray...definitely not normal. By unremarkable you mean, non-cancerous? Cuz it sounds pretty remarkable to me for it to have turned gray/ischemic. Very odd that they can't figure it out. I would definitely get a second and third opinion to get to the bottom of that. (no pun intended.)

[berniek8]

Thank you I was sooo afraid of rectal cancer. 

[angelogcs77]

Good Lord, I was already going hypochondriach and fainty aboutthe whole situation... I'll be monitoring this. Thanks.

[Lonedracowolf28]

Oh thank god, it's just fissures. Thanks for the reassurance.

[Mrsteddyz]

fuck you bitch, I've had endoscopy, 12 colonoscopies, every blood test known to man, a foot and a half of intestine removed, cat scans with dye, chalk milkshakes, ultrasounds, and nobody can find anything, yet I suffer bloody stools, and horrific stomach pain, just got out of a 7 day hospital stay, and they told me to take tylenol??????????I wish I were dead.

[Zac147147]

@Mrsteddyz maybe your just having your period....nah im jk but im going through the same thing right now...not quite as long as you have tho...but ive had the colonoscopy the endoscopy.....CTscans everything now ive got a problem with my bladder too

[Mrsteddyz]

@Zac147147 at least that would be something I've never heard before! lol,

[munchkinsmomable]

@Mrsteddyz I don't understand, why would they remove a foot and a half of intestine if there was nothing seriously wrong? I don't get it.

[Mrsteddyz]

@munchkinsmomable The diagnosed me with ischemic colitis, because I think that's all they could say, blood was definately not getting to the intestine, 1 of the 12 colonoscopies, showed bloody, grey, intestine, and after so many hospital visits, they didn't know what else to do, so I said to open me up and look! They tattooed the part that was "infected" and cut it out, it was unremarkable. Now, I have to use enemas everytime I go to the batheroom because I take hycosamine daily.

[munchkinsmomable]

@Mrsteddyz I take 6-Mercaptopurine (Purinethol) and Apriso (Mesalamine) which makes for extremely comfortable bowel movments every time. I can't ever imagine going back to the nearly incessant obstipation and constipation or the opposite which followed, which was very severe ulcerative colitis. I've had at least 16 colonoscopies, most of those over the course of the past 11 years .(Oh, yeah, and a couple of endoscopies/Upper GI series when they thought at one time it could be Crohn's.)

[Mrsteddyz]

@munchkinsmomable over a period of time, it was the same section of intestine, it was ischemic, I don't think they knew what else to do. I've recently stopped eating gluten. First it was Ibs, then diverticulitis, then crohns, now they think it's celiac disease. haven't gotten the blood work done yet, I'll let you know.

[trousien]

I think I have fissures because I don't feel any pain and sometimes once in a long time I get a lot of blood in my stool which scares me. I noticed this for two years and nothing is wrong with me so far so I am guessing its nothing big.

[angtemba]

hello mam i m a young boy of age 21 and today i found blood in my stool for a second i was scared and after watching this video i am ok now so what should i do now is it a serious problem . its my first time rectal bleeding do i have to worried about it ?

Hope to hear from you soon !

[titusalexander1988]

@angtemba Hey, the same thing happened to me. Just go get it checked out by your family doc; you will feel much better knowing you have done something about it. Sitting around worrying only makes things worse for you. Don't think the worse, just the most probable, it's likely just a nutritional manifestation from stools being too hard, lack of fiber, or maybe hemorrhoids. Don't feel awkward or try to prevent seeing a doc, they do it for a living to prevent the worse and to help, just do it.

[heatherwolf2704]

why are you smiling?