Bleeding Issue

Hello. I have posted about this before and could really do with some advice. When I go to the toilet I get blood on the toilet paper, sometimes just a little bit, sometimes a bit worse, but nothing in the toilet or visibly on/in the stool. The thing is I believe I've had this for years but I'm not totally sure as I did suffer from fissures years ago which last many years (never did anything about them). The bleeding isn't all the time, it comes and goes. It will happen for a while, then stop and I'll be fine for a while, then it will start again and so forth. I don't appear to have any other symptoms of anything.

I did go to the doctor about this probably over a year ago now and he thought I had internal haemorrhoids. The thing is, he only looked and lightly felt around, he didn't have an internal feel or offer any tests or any treatments. So I'm wondering if that was enough? Should he have done more? I always assumed everything was okay and being the doctor he knows what he's doing. Do internal haemorrhoids ever go away? If I did have anything serious going on would I be getting other signs by now? 

Every time it occurs it gets me thinking but I always put it off because I have seen the doctor and he seemed unconcerned at the time. What should I do?

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  •  Hi Jeremy85 and welcome, I have bowel and anal cancer as well as haemorrhoids and anal tears "fissures", the only time i get blood on the toilet paper is with haemorrhoids, which i have had for years, when i get a bleed from anywhere else it is always in the stool. I get little if any pain from bleeding, but the tears can sting at times but usually heal with treatment in weeks. You are 3400 times more likely to have haemorrhoids than cancer but i  know the thought of having cancer can be frightening, If you are still concerned see your GP, take care, Eddie

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  •  Hi Jeremy85 and welcome, I have bowel and anal cancer as well as haemorrhoids and anal tears "fissures", the only time i get blood on the toilet paper is with haemorrhoids, which i have had for years, when i get a bleed from anywhere else it is always in the stool. I get little if any pain from bleeding, but the tears can sting at times but usually heal with treatment in weeks. You are 3400 times more likely to have haemorrhoids than cancer but i  know the thought of having cancer can be frightening, If you are still concerned see your GP, take care, Eddie

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