Hi everyone. First post and a bit scared. Not sure what's going on but I'll try and describe what's happening with my symptoms. I have a Dr appointment coming up in a few days too, but wanted to ask folks here their opinion before then.
Never had issues before, but randomly started noticing a little bright red blood on my stool and my stomach felt a bit sore. Over the next few days, my stomach got better but the little blood continued every couple days, so I saw my Dr.
The Dr. asked if I had trouble using the bathroom, if I was still regular, had diarrhea, felt faint, etc., to which I said everything was great, my only symptom was some small amounts of bright red blood on my stool and TP and the earlier sore stomach. He examined me and diagnosed me with "a couple internal hemorrhoids" and asked that I come back in 5-6 weeks after treating with an OTC medicine. He did say that the stomach pains were odd though. Well about a week later, around my belly button/mid to lower stomach area, I started getting a gaseous bloated feeling (hard to describe) throughout the day that made me feel like I needed to 'let it out.' For the next few days, I needed to pass gas often...and I felt better each time I did. That went away, and I felt great for another week. Now I'm getting random pinches, burning and pulling feelings in my stomach that only last for a second or two and come at random times throughout the day. Another odd thing is that these are all over (upper left, upper right, middle of stomach, lower stomach, side). I cannot isolate 1 area.
Some additional information/recap about all of this:
- I'm 38 and have never had stomach problems or blood in stool until now
- I'm very healthy, not overweight, do not smoke, eat low calorie/low fat foods, and run 1/2 marathons and 5K's nearly every week. My body actually feels great!
- The pains (soreness, burining, pinches) have been felt in nearly all areas of my stomach from my rib cage down to bladder area. The pain is never sever, only aggravating and annoying (could be wrong, but it 'seems' to feel better when I'm laying on my back). It comes and goes throughout the day and does not appear to be influenced by food. I have days/week periods where I've felt fine.
- I have no symptoms other than the occasional blood on stool/TP and burn/itch on the outside of my anus after going to the bathroom (probably due to the hemorrhoids). I also seem to have more gas build-up lately.
- I'm still regular and have not once had diarrhea since the symptoms started
- I've only noticed very small traces of blood on my stool 3-4 times in the past month.
- There was a water ban in the area I work probably around the time the stomach issues started. While I didn't drink any, I may have drank some coffee made from it. Not sure if that could have caused something.
I feel a bit uncomfortable writing all of this about my symptoms, but thank you in advance if you have any insight or words of encouragement.
Never had issues before, but randomly started noticing a little bright red blood on my stool and my stomach felt a bit sore. Over the next few days, my stomach got better but the little blood continued every couple days, so I saw my Dr.
The Dr. asked if I had trouble using the bathroom, if I was still regular, had diarrhea, felt faint, etc., to which I said everything was great, my only symptom was some small amounts of bright red blood on my stool and TP and the earlier sore stomach. He examined me and diagnosed me with "a couple internal hemorrhoids" and asked that I come back in 5-6 weeks after treating with an OTC medicine. He did say that the stomach pains were odd though. Well about a week later, around my belly button/mid to lower stomach area, I started getting a gaseous bloated feeling (hard to describe) throughout the day that made me feel like I needed to 'let it out.' For the next few days, I needed to pass gas often...and I felt better each time I did. That went away, and I felt great for another week. Now I'm getting random pinches, burning and pulling feelings in my stomach that only last for a second or two and come at random times throughout the day. Another odd thing is that these are all over (upper left, upper right, middle of stomach, lower stomach, side). I cannot isolate 1 area.
Some additional information/recap about all of this:
- I'm 38 and have never had stomach problems or blood in stool until now
- I'm very healthy, not overweight, do not smoke, eat low calorie/low fat foods, and run 1/2 marathons and 5K's nearly every week. My body actually feels great!
- The pains (soreness, burining, pinches) have been felt in nearly all areas of my stomach from my rib cage down to bladder area. The pain is never sever, only aggravating and annoying (could be wrong, but it 'seems' to feel better when I'm laying on my back). It comes and goes throughout the day and does not appear to be influenced by food. I have days/week periods where I've felt fine.
- I have no symptoms other than the occasional blood on stool/TP and burn/itch on the outside of my anus after going to the bathroom (probably due to the hemorrhoids). I also seem to have more gas build-up lately.
- I'm still regular and have not once had diarrhea since the symptoms started
- I've only noticed very small traces of blood on my stool 3-4 times in the past month.
- There was a water ban in the area I work probably around the time the stomach issues started. While I didn't drink any, I may have drank some coffee made from it. Not sure if that could have caused something.
I feel a bit uncomfortable writing all of this about my symptoms, but thank you in advance if you have any insight or words of encouragement.
