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Maya - oh trust me, I did tell them. They took me to one of our family friend's house because she happens to be a doctor as well. All she said was that hemorrhoids can bleed and can cause dark blood and anemia. She told me I should take a suppository to reduce the swelling in the hemorrhoid...

Dahlia - I don't take iron pills, I take a multivitamin with iron it in. I don't know if that's what's causing the dark blood.

I actually got my colonoscopy done at Stanford. I do have a follow up with the GI, but at this point my parents have kind of given up with me. They seem to have the idea that now I'm just making excuses to avoid school, essentially I'm pretending to act sick. I don't know what else to tell...

And I don't take NSAIDS or anything else that will make me bleed. My last blood tests did show prolonged blood clotting, and my GI put me on vitamin K. I have read online that low vitamin K can cause GI bleeding, but I've been taking vitamin K tablets for a while now and the bleeding hasn't...

Thank you Maya - I unfortunately don't live near those hospitals, I see a pediatric GI at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. My neighbor, who's also a doctor, did recommend an adult GI though, so I might consider switching if my current GI won't follow up with more testing. And I did have both...

So I have some photos from the recent colonoscopy and what leaves me concerned is the fact that my colon still looks like it has some stool left in it...I'm a bit confused because the doctor said that my colon looked perfectly clear but when I look at it there are literally bulks of stool around...

Dahlia - thank you so much for the advice. I do have a gynecologist, I will probably ask her about the BCP. The last time I saw her she did mention endometriosis as a possibility as well, since I tend to get rectal pain around that time of the month as well. Cat - thank you for the...

Dahlia - my blood counts have jumped around quite a it - my hemoglobin has gone from 11.1 to 11.9 to 11.6 and my most recent one showed 11.1 again. My ferretin is 11. I have thought about the possibility of my period causing this but they're usually not heavy and only last around 3-4 days. I...

Ron - I will definitely plan to ask about IBD, thank you. Cat - Thank you for the advice. I have not had a CT or MRE, however I did have a Meckel's diverticulum scan. But that doesn't show all causes of bleeding, just diverticulum. I did message my GI and ask her about a CT scan, but she...

Hi everyone, I wanted to join this forum because I'm really at a loss for what to do. Last year, in September, I got a stool test for blood which came back positive. I was referred to a GI, who performed a colonoscopy and endoscopy, with biopsies, all which came back negative. But ever since...