Suddenly have blood

[Jaq]

So I've never really had a lot of gastrointestinal symptoms, but tonight I had a LOT of blood in my stool... since I had surgery in December should I go get checked out or what?

 

[Nyx]

I would....if you're worried about it, go get it checked out. Better safe than sorry.

 

[IAmTheWalrus]

You should get it checked just in case, but I remember when I was first diagnosed back in Jan 2009, I was sent home from hospital with Prednisolone and Pentasa after a two week stay, and about 2 days after I was home I started to pass copious amounts of blood and was thinking "Seriously? Already"

I was going to go back to the A&E (ER) but decided to wait until the morning, woke up that morning went to the toliet, expecting more bleeding, and passed a normal stool and was back to normal for about 7 months after that.

What I'm trying to say is, it can randomly pass, but I'd still get it checked out.

 

[Nico85]

If there is alot of blackish blood then that means bleeding in your colon and inflammation, bright red blood is either a bad reacotion from something, a fiscula or piles.

Thats what i was told

 

[StarGirrrrl]

Yes, even though it is super scary, bright red blood is not much to worry about, it's the darker stuff that is serious.

 

[archie]

I've had some last couple of months getting worse and I told the surgeon, he had a look!!! and told me it was small hiemorrhoidal tissue and nothing to worry about, none the less he's booked me in for a repeat colonoscopy and endoscopy tomo to check it out. If it persists get it checked.

 

[Jaq]

What will they do to check why I'm bleeding? Another Colonoscopy?

 

[littlefreebird]

unless you're having a lot of pain i would personally hold off to see what the next one is like. i think it would be unlikely that they'd give you a full colonoscopy after having blood in your stool one time, perhaps they will feel around the tummy for anything unusual such as tenderness or pain etc. and maybe do a blood test to see if you are low on iron or anything which would indicate perhaps you are losing a lot of blood, they can also check crp in the blood which indicates inflammation and infection. but as someone already said, you can get blood in the stool occasionally as 'one-offs', i know i do sometimes.
all the best.

 

[Nico85]

For those that say that bright red blood is nothing to worry about, you really couldn't be more wrong. I had bright red blood and actually fainted from blood loss...which resulted in my being in hospital for 4 days and 8 blood transfusions. My entire anus and rectum was so diseased and the only way I found out was from the bright red blood. Any kind of blood is not a good thing.

Sorry i never said its nothing to worry about, i just mean generally red blood is hemmeroids or a fiscula, its the darker stuff thats from the colon because it has been lying longer. The redder stuff is fresh from the rectum, so its more prone to be rectum related i.e fiscula or hemmeroid.

I was bleeding every day for 2 years before i built up the courage to get it checked out, so i sugest you dont wait as long as i did because it took me 4 years to get into "remission"!

 

[xJillx]

I was passing a lot of bright red blood with mucus over the weekend. My doc squeezed me in for a scope on Tuesday and didn't see anything alarming. No inflammation, fistulas or fissures. Just some "red areas", which could have been caused by the enemas (it was burning really bad!). So, what do you think was the possible cause??