What cream should I get for blood on toilet paper?

[SusanSocks]

I am not sure whether I have haemarrhoids - piles - or an anal fissure, I had one of those before.
I am never constipated, well hardly ever.
but I do have fresh blood on the paper and occasional dripping blood - I can sense it, on my knickers.

I am not going to GP. been there, done that, not again
But I wondered what cream I should apply. last time 20 years ago i bought germalene.

Yes, it could be one of the irritable bowel diseases all (?) of which have treatments that should ease your symptoms. Go to the GP! :)

I would go to gp and ask for some blood tests to be done in the first instance. they will want to examine you but its only their finger they use so shouldn't be an issue - your poo will be bigger than their finger...

Please don't ignore it. Go to the doctor, I have just watched a friend nurse her beloved husband through bowel cancer that had spread to his liver and lungs, he ignored the early signs. Luckily he has survived but he is minus a bowel and his coccyx.

My Mum passed off red blood as piles for years. By the time her bowel cancer was diagnosed she had very advanced metastatic liver cancer too and died 9 months later. Please go to your GP.

Please go to the doctor.

Excessive bowel movements can cause piles (which I never knew until informed of by my surgeon after surgery to remove part of my colon) but if you are dripping blood that sounds like something that requires more than cream even if it is piles.

I tell you what OP, I have red blood sometimes as well, but am 99% sure it is a fissure as it's really sore. If you go to the GP, so will I. Deal?

I've had an anal fistula which has healed with treatment . Ok so whipping yer kecks off and presenting buttocks to the world is never top of my 'must do!' list, but better that than suffering discomfort or serious illness.

I had piles done last year. From speaking to friends who had it done yesrs ago, treatments have changed a lot in 20 years. I was in and out of hospital in a few hours and not even sedated.
I got them after giving birth to my son who is 10..... The doc could not believe I had put up with them all that time because I didn't like the thought of the examination. And after I'd had them done, neither can I.