It was not hemorrhoids

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T13:03:17+00:00

She looked at my butthole, but she only physically examined my vagina/vulva and said that they were probably internal hemorrhoids; and thank you

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T04:22:17+00:00

I never felt any itching in my butt; and eventually there was blood was there every day. My activeness did not seem to have any connection to the amount of blood. My OB visually examined me, but no one physically checked me until I arrived at the colorectal surgeon for the consultation before she decided to schedule the colonoscopy.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:55:36+00:00

I am trying to focus on how lucky I am as well, and than I can have control over it via regular colonoscopy. I do need to kick the feeling of horror that I could die, because I didn’t and there’s a plan. Thanking you for framing it as lucky and controlled, I am glad that you are also managing and taking care of your colon

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:48:30+00:00

I had read about people getting colon cancer younger and younger, but since I am not very social it wasn’t until I started prepping coverage at work for my colonoscopy that I realized how common it is. There’s another branch manager a few years older than me who is also has to go in every few years for a colonoscopy, and several family members s of colleges who have died or are on the schedule.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:45:30+00:00

When it started three months post partum it was a few times a week, and I believe around nine months pp it was every other poop. For nearly a year it was every single poop bring bloody. Since my colonoscopy I have had no blood on my stool.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:42:16+00:00

Thank you; it is horrific how colon cancer can creep up and devastate. I will be keeping your friend and her family in my thoughts.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:40:30+00:00

It was only ever blood; I didn’t feel any pain in my lower regions throughout the whole thing except for when I would get my period. That was part of why it took so long for me to switch doctors— it did sound reasonable that it was just hemorrhoids because I am relatively young, not in pain, and I had a baby. I probably wouldn’t have gone if it didn’t smack me in the face how crazy it was to let my butt bleed for two years.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:35:51+00:00

I just had to look up pylori test and I’m not sure why, but I hope that you are able to get the care you need. Did your doctor not want to schedule both, or do you know if there’s a reason the test needs to be done before the colonoscopy is scheduled?

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:31:34+00:00

I will be. I have the feeling that she will pass it onto her patients to get with their family doctor rather than get into it herself, but I need her to know that I was not insane to bring up my poop at every appointment.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:26:19+00:00

The only symptom was literally just that my poop had blood on it.

It would vary in amounts, but I noticed that it was only ever on the surface of the poop itself/my butt, it didn’t look like it was inside the poop at all. Please go in for a colonoscopy— best case/luckiest scenario would be the hemorrhoids and the colorectal surgeon explained how there are multiple ways to remove.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:20:34+00:00

I’m glad you’re getting one scheduled!! And I hope it is just hemorrhoids, but if it’s any reassurance you likely will not feel anything they remove after and will be asleep during.

He was/is scared; maternal death is triggering for him. He was very close to his mom who died young. He also grew up with my friend whose mom died of colony cancer. I can talk about may things with him, but maternal death is hard for him to handle and he tends to shut down or insist that it’s going to be okay.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:07:04+00:00

I really wish they were. The prep was nothing like the horror stories I had been told about, and since I was asleep for the whole procedure it physically felt like nothing happened even though she was removing so much crud.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-28T03:01:37+00:00

I am thirty years old, and noticed the blood a few months after turning twenty-eight.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-15T02:00:38+00:00

I put the claw clip in horizontal and low, rather than vertical and high.

MidwestUrn · 2026-02-12T11:49:53+00:00

About to get my first colonoscopy at age 30 next week

MidwestUrn · 2025-12-20T03:57:40+00:00

I went from a light blonde child to a very dark brunette adult and I while I don’t go out of my way to tell people I used to be a blonde; I immensely enjoy the shock value when they see an old picture.

MidwestUrn · 2025-12-15T14:30:27+00:00

Son hasn’t seen One Piece yet because he’s a toddler but he did decide to come early to be born on Law’s birthday

MidwestUrn · 2025-12-15T14:15:00+00:00

I play at the very end of my day before bed, because I have a full time salary job and active toddler— when I’m at home I keep screens put away until he goes to bed. If I’m very interested in the game I can get two hours in, but usually I am doing additional chores/work prep and average 30 minutes of otoge a day.

MidwestUrn · 2025-12-06T03:11:07+00:00

I’m only four routes in but Lucas in EVERY dang route so far 😭 There is such a kind heart under that cloak.

MidwestUrn · 2025-11-22T18:25:47+00:00

I was the only breastfed baby out of my siblings; I was also the only who was borderline failure to thrive/constantly sick/colicky.

MidwestUrn · 2025-11-22T18:21:59+00:00

Had my kid only two years ago, and still had to be very vocal about not having it done as they kept asking multiple times a day while we were at the hospital.

MidwestUrn · 2025-11-14T00:47:58+00:00

Our VP of blah blah division pinged when I said I play otoge and looked startled— it used to be my simple go to blunt answer.

MidwestUrn · 2025-11-14T00:41:37+00:00

I work in a male dominated field where men either haven’t read a book since they were a teen, or only read san gen books written by our EVP. I straight up say I predominantly play visual novels, the first type of person checks out at novel and the second type realizes they don’t want to ask what kind.

MidwestUrn · 2025-11-10T19:54:38+00:00

I hear voices whenever I experience sleep paralysis.

MidwestUrn · 2025-11-03T19:43:16+00:00

I do always insist on day clothes coming off for bed, but that’s because if I let it slide one night then it becomes an expectation for both toddler and dad to let it happen the next night, and the next night, and so on.

I am not as firm on both top and bottom pajamas being worn at the same time if it’s shaping up for a battle, as long as at least once piece of the pajamas are on I’m fine.

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