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It honestly sounds like a hemorrhoid. Try the preparation h cream, and if that doesn't work the suppositories. If it's hemorrhoids that should help with only a dose.

Long term, you should try to reduce the amount of red meats and other fatty meat. Add more fiber to your diet. Beans and other things like brown rice and lentils.

If you are not ready for that kind of adjustment, fiber powders can help to supplement the fiber in your diet.

Also, I'm not a doctor. If you continue to experience these problems please talk to your doctor.

go to the doctor.

Bright red blood? Probably not a problem but talk to your doctor if it's persistent

Dark red to black? More serious, anywhere from get-to-the-ER-now to make an appointment asap.

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Asking the Internet for medical advice is never, I repeat: never a good option. The best advice possible that you can get here is go see a doctor. I say that, because there is no way anyone here can do a proper assessment of your situation, so that is the only safe advice. of course, statistically speaking, it’s not likely to be something that will kill you, but we simply cannot tell from here.

My advice: don’t be alarmed too much by all the horror stories you can find, but take it seriously enough to let a qualified health professional take a look at it.

No its not normal.

Yes I've had that. No it's not normal. Best case it's an anal fissure, i.e. a tear in your butthole. If it's a regular thing that means either it's not healing or it's tearing repeatedly. In both cases you need to talk to a doctor and figure out what's going on.

More likely is hemorrhoids. Also you need to talk to a doctor about that. Even if they seem fine, chances are they're subtly and infrequently making your life far more miserable than it needs to be.

It could also be several other things, diseases, damage, etc. In all cases you need to talk to your doctor to figure out what it is.

Going off of your username, probably not. But for real life, and iirc, if it’s red blood, it’s less problematic and if it’s black/dark (from being digested) it’s likely more of an issue. Regardless, this is one for legit doctors.

No, not normal at all. Being a patient with UC I can tell you that if blood is bright red, it means it comes from either the colon, rectum, or anus being the latter possibly due to hemorrhoids. If stool is very dark, like almost black, the bleeding is most likely from the upper digestive system being the stomach or esophagus possibly the culprits.

Either way, I strongly suggest you go to a doctor and check what's going on. Blood on stools is something serious that needs attention immediately.

Depends what causes it. Red blood is usually from hemorrhoids, which 1/4th of all people have. So in a sense it's normal, as in common, but you should still get it resolved if you can

I've been told by a gastroenterologist that ANY blood in stool is bad. There should be none. Ever. Go see a doctor

Like if you vomit and there's blood, there's a big difference between dark, dried blood, and fresh red blood. But anyway, this can vary vastly in severity, from simply rectal tears near the surface, to Chrohn's disease or tumors. You may wish to read this page (scroll to lower GI in particular) and it would be good to ask a medical professional and not just Lemmy.

This is how my wife found out she had colon cancer. Go to a doctor NOW!

No.

Nope. Only when I wipe. Fucking haemorrhoids.

No.

If there is blood in your urine or stool, then you should definitely see your doctor. Blood in urine indicates something is wrong in or around your kidneys and blood in the stool indicates there is a tear or something wrong somewhere in your GI tract.

Are you on any medication? I used to bleed everything I pooped when I was on a certain antidepressant, made multiple doctors visits where they tried a few different things. But then when I stopped taking the antidepressants it went away pretty quickly.

Only when I pop a hemorrhoid.

Friend had this and he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.

Probably not. If you just had hemorrhoids of doom or had to wipe your ass raw, then you might get blood for a day or two, but otherwise go see a doctor. Pooping blood is a huge medical red flag - no pun intended.

I agree completely with the emphatic comments about not asking for medical advice on the internet.

As an aside... some of you big guys are wearing your belts really tight and strangling your assholes into hemrroids to desperately keep your pants up. Consider switching to suspenders for the love of God. It can make a huge difference in the health of you asshole vasculature, stop the itching and bleeding after a few months. You can wear the suspenders under your shirt it you don't like the style.

No.

Go to your doctor.

No this is not normal you need to get medical help for this.

I have never seen blood in my poop.

Sometimes you can tear your tract, I don't mean with sex etc., but with forcing a large stool etc.

You should go to the doctor and get it checked out. It's embarrassing but:

Sometimes it's a sign of bowel cancer.

It about your diet that makes your asshole burn and grows hemorrhoids. When you poop they break and you bleed. Eat more vegetables, fish and proteins. Less sugar and carbohydrates, no fastfood, drink only water.

If you are over 50 it could be diverticulitis, not serious but see a doctor to confirm.
If you are under 50 see a doctor.
So see a doctor either way.

Go to your doc..