Michelle - hemorroids are vericose veins of the rectum. I believe they're inside and come out with BM, if I remember correctly. It's better that you can see the blood rather than it being occult (only seen thru microscope/testing). The labs kept finding occult blood in my husband's stool (they did the tests because blood work came back slightly anemic and he was getting indigestion and nausea) and they were trying to find where the blood was coming from. They finally did the opposite-end colonoscopy (can't remember what it's called!) and they found a linear ulcer in his stomach. They gave him Prilosec and the nausea has just about stopped, no more indigestion and, hopefully, no more blood. Yours is probably from hemorroids. Let's hope that's all it is. We can deal with that, right?
Don't worry, everything'll be fine and dandy. You'll see. Try not to fret--we don't want those "lower" muscles getting any tighter and tense than they already are!!!
Sharon
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Re: Really bad day - Hemorroids (I don't know how to spell it either!)
