I was in a fugue state drawing this. If it is in any way upsetting, I will delete it.
Hemorrhoids: Am I a joke to you?
Anal fissures too
No, that’s lightly colored blood. Mostly on toilet paper. We’re looking for dark red blood here.
Yes and no. It just depends where along your GI tract the cancer is.
If the cancer is further up in your colon, the bleeding can turn your poo a dark color. BUT if you have cancer near to the “exit hole” (in your rectum or anus), it absolutely can involve bright red bleeding.
Also fun fact. Eating a metric fuckload of blueberries will also make your poo very dark lol. Found that out one day and I mildly scared the crap out of myself before remembering what I ate. Beets can also give you some fun colors.
Light colored but surprisingly high volume 😬
Or black.
SHHhh, they still should consult a doctor. Don’t give people an excuse to not seek medical help.
in most places you will first need to consult an intermediary person (like a GP or family doctor) who will tell you to wait and observe for a while anyways. it is not like you go to the hospital and they immediately test you. you need to bleed out of your anus for quite a while before they take you seriously…
Um … nope. I sent me to a gastroenterologist. We just talked, no physical exam. He immediately scheduled the butt probe. After that he sent me to the hemorrhoid guy who only saw me once, procedure on the first visit.
I’ll add that every medical professional that I spoke to about bleeding out of my ass was understanding and concerned. At no point was I not taken seriously.
I freaked out when I saw blood in the toilet after a shit. Went to see my doc. He looked at my butthole and said “it’s hemorrhoids, I can see them”.
Sounds like 100% your location issue. In UK shit is taken seriously. Try different GP and report them if you can.
I’m talking from experience too. If they’re not taking bleeding seriously, it’s fucked beyond belief.
well even if you are taken seriously there is a very high chance you will be hit by waiting times still
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/08/cancer-patients-england-deadly-delays
Have not, was seen same day and examined within an hour… 2024 Feb is fairly old, wait times have been being cut.
Just pointing it out as you’re just spreading misleading information. Yeah, it was bad and situations like that suck, but what are you achieving? Are you seriously trying to do what exactly?
One year is old wow? If you are 20 years old maybe but otherwise it means you have spent like 10+ years navigating the problems of this system and getting frustrated at every turn. One year of improvement does not undo all those years of hardships. I have had friends going back to their own countries for treatments because of these waiting times and sometimes because their problem was not taken seriously, my wife being one of them, a close friend of mine another. Calling a fair criticism of a system that has been horrible for the last two decades of someone’s attempt to “achieve something” and “spreading misinformation” sounds directly from the fascist’s handbook.
I understand you’re angry. But you’re yourself and those around you no favors. Undoing “two decades” of damage to the system takes times, but talk like yours undos labour’s efforts and is exactly how reform will take charge.
Get over yourself and look at progress. Accusing someone of “learning how to navigate” and assuming my age is laughable. If anything, it shows your immaturity and lack of rationale. Whataboutism gets us nowhere. Nothing about your comments falls under fair criticism. It’s just ranting. Ranting manifests doubt. Doubt loses labour seat of power and puts reform in. Doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that.
You aren’t getting this. There’s a huge support community out there. People will get help if they reach out. And they should do so.
There is 1 good reason to not do this if you live in the US and here’s why. Let’s say you don’t have health insurance. You get a diagnosis and you have cancer. It’s going to cost 10 jillion dollars to do anything about it because healthcare providers don’t give regular people the same prices as the health insurance companies get charged. Well lets say a year later you get a job with health insurance. Now you can’t have health insurance cover that because they can prove it’s a “preexisting condition”. Have fun getting all your wages confiscated due to all that medical debt so you’ll have to choose between dying in homelessness or having to flee to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US. Or maybe Mike Johnson will let you live out the rest of your days in gulag out of generosity.
If you know something is wrong with you and are in a similar situation you’re probably just better off making the most of the time you have left on your own terms.
Every single time I’ve seen blood in my shit, it’s because a hemorrhoid popped.
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I found it really hard to talk about and seek treatment for this subject at the time, and I was quite aware of how sick I might be. Maybe this will help somebody. I’ve had the butt-probe three times now, and the good doctor expects me again next year. I’m totally cured. No blood no more. Let me share …
The critical danger is polyps that grow on the lining of your intestine. They go bad and turn into cancer. Doc wants to snip them off for you. If you are 50 years old, go do that.
The home test … If it finds any blood at all, you’ll fail the test and have to do the colonoscopy. If you’re approaching 50, you have polyps, they are bleeding, and its gonna find blood. You can waste your time with the home test or just go get checked.
Most folks with red blood in stool probably have internal hemorrhoids. Lots of things can cause them to flare up, including drinking alcohol, spicy greasy food, and anything else that irritates your gut. This is the best-case scenario. Internal roids are fixable with a (very uncomfortable) outpatient surgery.
The are obviously (MANY) other conditions that can go wrong there (external roids, lobsters up your butt, all sorts of stuff can happen), but these are the big things the doc says when you first talk. Roids and dangling cancer worms. Doc needs to take a look and tell you.
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And then the cure … oh ya, got the butt probe, got the roids … um … “pinned”. That lessened the bleeding but didn’t fix anything. Turns out my problem was a gut microbe imbalance, most likely brought on by some large doses of antibiotics I had to take for dental surgeries. Some righteous kimchi straight from a backyard in Korea cured me. That and a whole lot of fiber. All the time. Real fiber. Beans. Spinach. Black rice. Gotta feed them gut bugs. Or they will eat you instead.
i got my first butt probe when i was 15 and my last when i was 20. never have to again.
FOR NOW… My wife had to have them every year from 21-23, then every three years until she was 29. Then 5 years which she’s approaching now. If you have a medical history of needing them, you will likely need them again at some point.
Oh no, I had my butt surgically removed
Fuk ya. Mine fell off. Way to be.
I hope you can get yours out of the environment soon
We’ll have it towed outside the environment.
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frontbutt fell off!
to be honest more common reason could be polyps though so dont go crazy the first time you see blood on your stool.
Funny story: once i took a shit that was eerily red and started to panic. I searched and searched for possible causes and then after getting up i noticed in my trash bin an emptied 100g pack of beetroot chips i ravaged in a weed-addled munchies frenzy, and facepalmed
My first three surgeries were for the removal of a pilonidal cyst. According to the doctor who operated in my tailbone, this and similar events are common causes of panic.
Don’t go look this up. You definitely don’t want to see the pics. No matter how curious. I warned you …
Sorry, it didn’t occur to me that that might be a problem. Yeah, cysts of any kind are pretty gross. Pilonidal cysts are near the butthole, so grossness is not reduced. Unless you have an interest in such things, I agree, don’t look them up.
It’s shitpost, my friend. And a shitpost where I also chose to reveal uncomfortable details. I’m just teasing.
Thanks for sharing
Good PSA. RIP TotalBiscuit
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Mix some beets into food (don’t tell anyone), scare everyone when their poop is red
I told this story on here way back when I first moved to Lemmy, but I went through a period of eating some sea salted beet chips (fucking delicious btw) for lunch every day. I didnt grow up eating beets, no idea why I tried them, but I didnt realize what was happening when I started pissing red.
Got in with my PCM and was panicking like “I have blood in my urine and I’m not on my cycle, and it looks different anyway!”
So he was like “Aight, what did you eat yesterday?”
I felt like such a fucking idiot wasting his time. But a bunch of kind Lemmings on here assured me that it happens a LOT, and its always better to get checked.
That being said, there should definitely be a warning on those chip bags for those of us who lack critical thinking skills lmao
I remember when once I ate a ton of red bell peppers and got jumpscared when my shit was red. I think the color was like this:
I found an awesome blue drink-mix this week that turned my poop a nice solid Grinch color
10/10, would recommend for the holidays.
How about we try to find a food for every poop color? We could make a huge colorful painting and call it 50 Shades of Shit
Genious!!!
Ya, blue drinks make green poop!
Wow! I love red bell peppers but I’ve never ate enough of them to do this! I’m impressed!
This is how Ulcerative Colitis goes too.
D’awwwwww i just had a colonoscopy today. 2 likely benign polyps. I’ll know in a week. I then proceeded to eat all the things.
Yeah I thought the low residue diet and no eating anything for a day before the procedure was more annoying than the colonoscopy itself.
Oh, the prep is by far the worst part. Well … after you get over having to tell the doc that you’re bleeding out your ass. That can be a challenge. But the prep … sitting on the pot with projectile diarrhea while you drink that chemical lemonade for 12 hours is not a good time.
Yes all awkward stuff lol.
I’m eating. Thanks.
Bon appetite my non-bloody stool dude.
I got really bad hemorrhoids so I would hope its just that. Like If I wipe too hard it bleeds. I need to actually use the cream. Haven’t seen any bright red shit in a while though.
I hear you.
Obviously, eat fibre etc etc. If that’s not possible then the bare minimum I’d suggest is getting some psyllium husk. It’s cheap and easy to get powdered fibre. Add a teaspoon to water and drink quickly. Or on your cereal, etc, and eat it.
Though I personally don’t like the taste so I take it in water just before bed.Also, spray bidet. If nothing else then get one. It’s a game changer. There are ways to attach them to your pipes with no cutting, etc, as well.
Have your monumental turd then spray and dab. Spray more if necessary.
No more wiping and wiping. Just spray, dab, check, spray more if needed.
Your arsehole will thank me.
I’m colorblind, i’ll just die of cancer.
I’m upset, delete it
Colorectal people of cancer all affects ages.
And in all sorts of ways …
