I have a lot of these symptoms but with abdominal pain and occasional bloating. 
I'm 29 with two young children so it's very worrying. 
I had 3-4 episodes of heavy bleeding over the course of about a week which disappeared I do have visible hemaroids and went to the doctors about that who said they can bleed significantly. I also have internal ones, and my mum suffered terribly with them. So I wrote this off as that. 
however the past few months I've developed stomach pain but that's now subsided too, I still have odd looking poo. 
I have a colonoscopy on Thursday so I'll keep you posted about, my anxiety has been awful abs I've felt like not turning up, but I realise that I need to know what's going on inside. 
I really had to push for a colonoscopy and saw a private colorectal consultant who got me one on the nhs in 7 days he was amazing I can't thank him enough x

I have a lot of these symptoms but with abdominal pain and occasional bloating. 
I'm 29 with two young children so it's very worrying. 
I had 3-4 episodes of heavy bleeding over the course of about a week which disappeared I do have visible hemaroids and went to the doctors about that who said they can bleed significantly. I also have internal ones, and my mum suffered terribly with them. So I wrote this off as that. 
however the past few months I've developed stomach pain but that's now subsided too, I still have odd looking poo. 
I have a colonoscopy on Thursday so I'll keep you posted about, my anxiety has been awful abs I've felt like not turning up, but I realise that I need to know what's going on inside. 
I really had to push for a colonoscopy and saw a private colorectal consultant who got me one on the nhs in 7 days he was amazing I can't thank him enough x

Hi Charlottechloe

thanks so much for your reply and I'm sorry to hear you are going through something similar. It's so anxiety inducing isn't it. I'm glad you've got a colonoscopy sorted - wishing you the best of luck for that. Do you mind me asking if you have already had to provide stool samples etc? That's what I have to do next. And are going for sedation with the colonoscopy? For some reason the thought of being under makes me more nervous! 
 

wishing you all the best, will you let us know how you get on? 
 

️ Xxx

I had similarish symptoms - bright red blood, on toilet paper with one incident of it coating the stool. I didn't have the excess mucus but did have some other symptoms like trapped wind. I had a colonoscopy and all that was found was hemorrhoids.

I don't think you mentioned your age. My consulant said that as I am only 40, the odds of cancer were low.

Hi Margaret Mary

thanks for your reply. Sorry to hear you've had problems but glad it's hemmorhoids. The telephone consultant originally thought it was internal hemmorhoids for me, but of course that was without physically looking. The doctor yesterday confirmed I had no external hemmorhoids but did say he felt swelling inside my rectum. It was his non commital response when I asked if it was consistent with internal hemmorhoids that concerned me.
 

im 34 so not in a higher risk age group but I do have my father who has diverticulitis (and I'm pretty sure ulcerative colitis) and my grandma on my mums side had bowel cancer (although diagnosis in late 70s). 
 

I understand the doctors hesitancy in commiting to a diagnosis but I think in my mind I had told myself it must be internal hemmorhoids to ease my anxiety beforehand - which ended up not being eased!

thank you so much for your reply, 

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