Shitting Blood: Am I going to die?

It's happened twice today. Full on bleeding, like there is a poop riding the wave out of the elevator in The Shining. But I don't feel any pain and haven't done anything to, ahem, injure myself in that area? Am I going to die? Should I go to a doctor immediately or is alright to wait till Monday and see if I'm fine pooping by then?

Doctor. Immediately.

i have shat blood many times, but always after abusing my body terribly with drugs and alcohol. I would definitely go to the doctor if i were you.

prob hemorrhoids

fun

done it without either of the above per jim, but never went to the doctor. looked it up and convinced myself it was just a tear in the tissue of the exit area.

i was stupid, go get it checked out is my advice.

wiki pictures for hemorrhoids v. gross obv

yeah, go see a doctor. as someone who shits blood regularly due to crohn's (although never full-on gushing...)

Depends on a couple things tbh. Is it bright red blood? Do you feel sick otherwise?

If it's bright red and you do not feel sick otherwise then it's probably a hemorrhoid and you should be fine to wait and see if it sorts itself out. If you start feeling ill or the bleeding gets worse and becomes excessive then I would go to the Dr sooner rather than later.

tear in the tissue of the exit area

anal fissure would probably hurt a lot

collect the blood in a tin and use it to paint a masterpiece titled "Ass Menses"

(jk, go to the doctor)

hey i didn't know girls would be looking at that go away xp

Check with a doctor yeah but iirc fresh blood is usually not a sign of teh serious, clotted dark blood is the worry alarm.

anal fissure would probably hurt a lot

yeeeeeeeah

you were stupid? why, was there something actually wrong with you?

maybe my shining description was ott but its bright red, yeah. not feeling any worse than usual or any pain or anything. my poop seemed regular, just surrounded in blood.

STOP POSTING AND CALL THE DOCTOR

any neighbours' dogs gone missing in the night?

you're not going to die

xp

Just noticed the time- by the time I get to the surgery the place will be closed. Cannot be bothered to spend an hour travelling to the hospital unless it starts to hurt. Will book an appointment w/ the doctor in the morning if I'm still pooping the blood.

blart

you were stupid? why, was there something actually wrong with you?

no, it was just dumb to assume it would be fine, and i wouldn't do it now. being right about something after the fact doesn't make it smart

omg blart

shartiblartfast

Just turn the lights off when you're on the john. Then you won't notice.

http://jerryjansen.name/picture_library/7f7daeb3a6e8_1085F/PaulBlartMallCop8x6.jpg

when he sits on the toilet, the toilets starts to bleed amirite?

maybe a particularly large bumple poppaged during shart

You're not going to die Sam - probably just an internal roid that you busted while errr straining (sorry!). You're not in pain so likely not a fissure and if it was colitis or chron's you would most likely have other symptoms. If it continues def get it checked out but I don't think at this point you have any reason to heard to the ER or anything.

OO-ER mrs

I knew I wasn't going to die! I just wrote that because

Not even straining, my pooping has been high quality of late (except when i was on the whisky last week) [sorry, but then this is iltmi].

So I am going to ignore the problem and then hope it goes away. Cheers ILTMI.

now the thread can begin in earnest

RIP that one dude that bled to death out his ass ;_;

he loved jack wilshere too much iirc

I don't think you need to get to Casualty or anything, but personally I'd see a GP at some point even if it clears up. Or maybe you could call nhsdirect but they'll probably just say "well you're probably fine but you should go to the GP" which is exactly what this post says.

(My mother has Crohns so I was made to promise many times that if I ever had the ass-bleedings I would get myself to a doctor. That said I think NV and ENBB are correct so don't panic etc.)

prob hemorrhoids
Yes, this. But go to doctor as soon as possible. Be prepared for a finger up your hole. Which is perhaps not your fave thing ever to have happen but is deffo 100% better than having your colon whipped out because it is riddled with millions of cancer (true story). Do not ignore this.

(xp, nhsdirect will probably say that because they said that on the one occasion I rang them and I imagine they say it to pretty much all non-hoax calls)

Ok ok. Need to go to job centre in the morn and then jump on a train straight after to get to my interview. Will try to go to the doctors to book an appointment for Monday in between. If my bumhole explodes in my job interview then I'll just have to carry on looking.

"we really like you but your bumhole exploded on our expensive chair"

"job centre"

i feel a hilarious ilx interview disaster story coming on

(xpost) I'm going to a Job Centre on Monday and know that practically the only "job" to be found in one is likely to be a turd.

just remember- "if anything, i'm maybe too much of a perfectionist" *blart*

maybe you need an ass tampon

Ah, it's only to sign on. They look at my little grey book, get surprised someone they serve has actually applied for jobs, give me a tick and wooooo, lets look at the retarded jobs on offer in yr area! Do you think yr degree has given you the experience to groom dogs?

goddamnit i'm never going back to that motherfucking jobcentre

Full on bleeding, like there is a poop riding the wave out of the elevator in The Shining.

btw still kind of baffled that someone would experience this and wonder "hmm, I wonder if I should go see a doctor re: the deluge of blood that just came out of my ass"

I don't like doctors. Especially if they are going to be putting things in my pooper. Best left alone until an emergancy in my experience and stupidity.

apparently ymmv but any quantity of blood that could be described as being akin to the blood flood from "The Shining" would count as an emergency for me

NOT A DOCTOR BUT

ENBB is probably right: bright red blood means the blood is likely coming from somewhere perianal, not from your gut (which would make your shit black). which likely means: hemorrhoids. yr not gonna die, so don't go rushing to the ER. make an appt with your GP if yr concerned, or sit (lol) it out.

nah emergancy is like losing a limb or something

according to the orthopod that gave a lecture a month ago, even that isn't an (orthopedic) emergency: like keys into a molten river of lava, once you lose your limbs they're probably gone, man

:/

so other than repeat prescriptions i don't really need to see a gp.

stopping the bleeding: emergency
putting it back on: enh

real talk: if you lose a limb the government should provide you with free jetpacks for life

^^worthy of jimmy carr

a hoy hoy, one other possibility is you may have a polyp on yr colon, which is not a serious as it sounds but shld be addressed sooner rather than later

be prepared for the vv. worst if the doc prescribes a barium enema as part of the procedure

Barium? Barium? I haven't even rectum yet.

advice: no more chipotle

^^worthy of jimmy carr

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ohhhhhh some things should not be said even in jest

^^ review of jimmy carr

collect the blood in a tin and use it to paint a masterpiece titled "Ass Menses"

(jk, go to the doctor)

god DAMNIT

maybe a particularly large bumple poppaged during shart

fucking a

I use to think I was a sick fuck but this thread is like sick fuck delta force

sick fucker; delta farts

Just wait until one of you guys has ass surgery, this bleeding issue becomes REALLY REAL let me tell you.

be prepared for the vv. worst if the doc prescribes a barium enema as part of the procedure

If I hear the words "barium shake" ever again I will barf.

hmm lots of positive input...errr exput....

Went to the doctor Monday after a weekend of it still happening, had to buy suppositories. Not been a fun week for my clenched buttocks. (Have stopped bleeding since Monday though.) (Did not assplode in interview.)

what was the verdict?

'Roids.

heh from doctor or at interview, d'you mean?

there was this one indian buffet near work, which has this special tray that has a sign saying "EXTREMELY HOT" and i ate a load of that stuff and FUCK it was hot. anyway a couple of days later bled like a motherfucker while pooing. shat myself thinking holy shit what the fuck.

thought it might have been the curry, so to isolate the problem a month later (no bleeding since) I tried that curry once more, and HOLY SHIT BLEEDING LIKE A MOFO again. and i was content that it was just the curry burning out my ass. if i don't work in IT support i would have probably approached this whole thing quite differently.

Putting the "sh" in "IT".

I applaud your application of the scientific method to your digestive tract, ken.

the time i dealt with this the doc said "stop drinking so much coffee and whiskey and cut back on the sriracha" and i did for a while and it quit, so the occurence of this may be a digestive thing

But I've become a part time nn, so I don't think it is. Anyway, it stopped and I am fine so

This is, like, the #1 questions I get when people find out I'm a nurse.

Wait, coffee, whiskey, and sriracha can cause that? I live off of those three things!

check yr next poo

might have to start a poo log?

ENBB is probably right: bright red blood means the blood is likely coming from somewhere perianal, not from your gut (which would make your shit black). which likely means: hemorrhoids. yr not gonna die, so don't go rushing to the ER. make an appt with your GP if yr concerned, or sit (lol) it out.

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pp had this and it turned out to be colon cancer requiring a colon resection and 6 months of chemo. it probably IS hemorrhoids but you're going to be pissed (oh and dead) if its not and you left it too late to fix.

sorry dont mean to be scary but its an easy enough check. just go to the doc.

check this:

TMI: Colon Cancer

aaaaaaaaaand this is why i should stop posting about medicine on the internet

eep

I went to the doctor and it cleared up. Is pp ok? Oh man ilxers shouldnt be dying, we are better than that.

he is at the 2.5 years post-all clear diagnosis point. they dont consider you 'cured' until 5 years have passed but he is just peachy so far.

Yay, high fives all around.

or i guess high 2.5s

it's so good to be reminded that pp is doing well. my father just got diagnosed this week, so it's scary and :( right now but i do know most people get past this, even though the treatment itself is pretty awful.

hey hey estela

http://commontragedies.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/polar-bear-funny-dog-death-hug.jpg

thank you <3

um, so this just happened

try not to worry because it will most likely be fine but do get it checked out.

I'm not too worried. Kind of morbidly curious. If it doesn't go away within a couple days I will go to the doctor (I don't even know how though, I have no insurance).

bright red or dark red? if it's the former, nothing to worry about unless it persists

Corey - read through the last revive if you want - some good advice there but essentially Estela OTM. It's prob nothing (esp if it's bright red blood) but if it continues you'll want to get it checked out just in case.

actually it's blood and mucus (I'm sorry, this is really gross) :(

I started this thread and didn't die, so good omens. Hope you are ok c-dog.

US Navy SEALs breaking into the mansion where I am staying: Am I going to die?

probably

woke up at 5 am burning up with fever. Hope to god I don't have an infection.

Awwww corey. There's every chance that these two things could be totally unrelated but if I were you'd I'd go to the doc today if poss. I know that's tough without insurance but you're in Chicago, right? Is there some kind of a free care clinic you could go to?

^^^^. please take care of yourself, corey

yes, please do.

I knew a guy who shat blood. It turned out to be caused by drinking alcohol and chasing with aspirin (or tylenol, i forget). You didn't do that, did you?

Either way, go and see a professional. They are better equipped to Dx you than a crowdsourced response from "I Love TMI" ever could.

xps I think so. I have no idea if they deal with this sort of thing, though.

Re: alcohol, no. I hardly ever drink, and my diet is pretty good.

Cor - if they don't they'll at least be able to give you advice on where to go/who to see next.

GO TO A DOCTOR

do you have hemorroids?

I don't know. I had (really uncomfortable) sex a couple nights ago for the first time in several months, so that might have something to do with it.

Nothing else has happened in Buttland so I guess I'm okay for now.

any abdominal pain? are you moving your bowels more than usual?

you do need to see a doctor immediately

that post wasn't meant to be sequential, btw

Oh well that sort of changes things. I was going to ask but figured you'd have mentioned it if you had. Assuming you were the anal receptive partner then that could absolutely have something to do with the bleeding esp if it was "really uncomfortable" at the time.

It would probably still be a good idea to get checked out but I realize that without insurance that might not be possible right away. :/ Take care of yourself Corey.

That was obv x-post

Thanks. It's super embarrassing. :\ I freaked out initially, but I think I will be fine. Bodies are weird.

just a bit of fecal blood, let's be cool

i've got a hot towel compress waiting in my bed so i'll just say this

Worst opening to a limerick ever:

There once was a man who shit blood...

take it to the relevant thread imo

It was only beets.

Did you get it looked at by dr dre

you're not going to die

This, at least, seems unlikely.

so had this fun surprise just an hour ago. it was bright red, didn't notice if it was in the stool or not but there was some in the water of the toilet and a lot on the paper. recently was very dehydrated and there were hard stools passed, one which may have caused a tear as there was trace bleeding after it (and it was painful), but since then, I've hydrated and gotten to feeling better.

not asking here in place of going to the doc (I already am expecting my doc will want a follow-up after my last blood work anyway), but mostly just curious, is this something I can go to my PCP and have em check rather easily or should I see a specialist if I decide to?

last time I went to my PCP for something similar she basically violated my rectum and it felt weird for days (and couldn't find a fissure or external roid). but that was 5 years ago.

also if there's something visual that is a horror story that I should be aware of let me know, otherwise I'll just make a JIC appt after this weekend if it persists.

sorry, that should have said "something visual that, if I see it, is a horror story that I should act on"

pcp is fine

but yr probably gonna get a finger, so heads up

well I guess if I'm gonna get one might as well be w/ a doc I've seen since I was 18

oh and my diet is mostly terrible. not going to play it off like I eat a balanced breakfast lunch and dinner

the itching and the lump-esque feeling (ie, sorry to get too TMI, but the feeling of 'having to go' a lil bit when there's nothing there) suggest to me that this is an internal 'roid. ugh.

:(

word to the wise, when yr body says "I'M FUKKIN THIRSTY", don't respond by drinking half a glass of water over the next 30 hours

didn't happen again, and in fact symptoms subsided. though not being used to hemorrhoids, had the bright idea to eat about 20 spicy wings last night.

pain. such pain.

btw never get this
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002487/#adam_001519.disease.causes

And definitely not one of these
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0003018/

yeeeech at both

y'know applying prep h is kinda icky but damn if it doesn't work

god why do roids show up at precisely the worst moments. tho I suppose there isn't a 'convenient' time since one always sits

wanting to try the hardcore medical probiotic VSL3 for my slowly worsening crohn's but jesus how can I afford it