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foooookinghell · 21/12/2019 22:27

AIBU about forty mins ago I had a bowel movement and the toilet was full of blood the water full of blood. Hubby looked and couldn't believe it. Should I go to A and E as NHS website says or am I being silly I feel a bit weak now after it thanks

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icedgem85 · 21/12/2019 22:53

Try not to worry it's probably a fissure, but DO call 111 and get checked out as they will advise.

JJSS123 · 21/12/2019 22:55

This happened to me and was piles

Bowerbird5 · 21/12/2019 22:57

I hope you are alright but I'm glad you have rung 111. They sent a Paramedic out to me last time.

Supersimkin2 · 21/12/2019 23:02

Piles. Terrifying when they burst.

LittleReindeer · 21/12/2019 23:06

It’s usually piles or fissures. It can be something more serious but in most cases it isn’t. Either way it’s not going to be so urgent that you need to go to A&E tonight.

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foooookinghell · 21/12/2019 23:12

Thank you everyone still waiting on 111💩💩

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Hollywolly1 · 21/12/2019 23:15

Wishing you wellFlowersBear

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 21/12/2019 23:16

Definitely not period-related? I mean, are you sure about where the blood is coming from?

Meinmytree · 21/12/2019 23:28

If it's bright red it's fresh, and will be a pile / fissure. I had a fissure a few years ago that took about 8 weeks to properly heal, so every time I went to the loo (and it seemed to be more than normal at that point...) it ended up full of bright red blood. Scary, and along with the feeling that the poo had a piece of glass sticking out of it and that I'd be in agony for about an hour after, made it something I do NOT want to repeat.

katewhinesalot · 21/12/2019 23:28

Hope it's nothing serious. It sounds as if there are lots of less sinister reasons for it

BrutusMcDogface · 21/12/2019 23:36

I hope you’re ok, op. I was going to say bright red blood should be ok but have seen your update that it’s dark. Is Crohn’s hereditary? 💐

Notodontidae · 21/12/2019 23:44

Nothing I can add to the good advice, do keep us in the loop, and hopefully at will be an infection of some kind, and nothing too sinister. Best Wishes

HerRoyalFattyness · 21/12/2019 23:46

Flowers hopefully it's nothing too sinister.

Ontheboardwalk · 21/12/2019 23:50

Not being funny Idontkowmyname but if my very significant other, partner till death do us part, was too squeamish to look at my arse if i was bleeding and it could be something serious, I’d have to have a proper think about our relationship 😂

Pineapple1 · 22/12/2019 00:06

Every time I poop, it's full of blood and clots.

Has been like that for 6 months.

Sometimes takes 5mins to get clear paper...

I'm having surgery to fix it though. What I'm having fixed, I don't really know.

ccx1 · 22/12/2019 00:10

Hope you're okay OP! Let us know how you get on x

Queenest · 22/12/2019 00:11

Good luck hope you’re ok OP

StillMedusa · 22/12/2019 00:13

I wouldn't panic personally... going to A+E on a saturday night before Xmas is going to be hell, so unless you are bleeding continually I would make a gp appointment.
Burst piles are impressive.
Or with history of Crohns in the family you may need a colonoscopy (but a normally formed poo would be unusual... my son has it and his poos are rarely remotely formed..more blood and diarhoea. But either way I doubt anything diagnostic will be done on a Saturday night!

Idontkowmyname · 22/12/2019 00:46

@Ontheboardwalk I agree too, I was just being mindful that other people might have different levels of comfort within a relationship.

Justaboy · 22/12/2019 00:48

Anymore outputs since the orignal one?.

Very generally brighter blood is a lesser problem than dark blood in my experence.

If good old 111 are much longer is there any one who could take you to A&E?.

Pollywollydolly · 22/12/2019 00:50

Go to hospital now!

I had this with no warning three years ago and when it happened again the next morning I went to a and e. I was admitted and kept in overnight but discharged the next day after they diagnosed diverticular disease. Before I left the consultant told me to come back if I had any more bleeding, a junior doctor with him stopped at the door and said:

'Only come back if you have significant bleeding.'

So when it started up again two days later I wasn't bothered and didn't ring my husband at work, even when he got home I asked him to take me to the hospital after he had eaten his dinner.

Suddenly I started to feel really unwell, I tried to call for help but couldn't walk or call out, luckily he came upstairs and found me. He was helping me downstairs when I had a massive haemorrage. The ambulance arrived within five minutes and took about 40 minutes to stabilise me enough to take me to hospital where no-one would commit themselves when I asked if I would live. I had to have six pints of blood.

They never found out what caused it. Lower GI said it was Upper GI because they found nothing on the scans or colonoscopy . Upper GI said it was lower GI because they found nothing either. The blood was bright red.

Please go to a and e straight away.

Prevegen4U · 22/12/2019 01:24

Many years ago I was a medical lab tech for a short while and one of the many test we did was a fecal occult blood test - looking for invisible amounts of blood in stool samples.

I think about it this way; black blood is from the stomach and the fresh red blood from the bum area. Blackish poo could contain blood from the stomach area.

People naturally panic when they see blood in the toilet. I had a toilet bowl of red blood after I peed, which turned out to be a bladder infection. I had no pain with it at all. Another time, when I was 15 weeks pregnant (and had 5 previous miscarriages) I had a toilet bowl of red blood when I urinated, which continued after. It turned out to be cervical polyps which had ruptured, or whatever they do. (Baby now in his early 30's).

I totally understand the fear.

ChocoholicsAsylum · 22/12/2019 01:33

So you ok OP?

katewhinesalot · 22/12/2019 01:37

Perhaps she's gone to hospital.

Chienloup · 22/12/2019 01:42

Hope you have spoken to 111 or gone to A&E OP.

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