Rectal Bleeding

[nailit]

Had rectal bleeding (as reported previously) over 2 1/2 week period (everyday)
So far had scan, bloods and waiting for sigmoidoscapy.
Bleeding returned for one day only.
Not unduly worried, but would like to know why I keep on having episodes
of bleeding from my arris??

Getting fed up of GP firking up my behind!
Previously had polyps cut out and internal piles cautererised
in the past


Just dont know why I have had 30 years plus of rectal bleeding on and off?

[Sqad]

Because you have suffered from piles for 30 years

[Eve]

Have you looked in to things which might encourage piles to form or make things worse?

Do you have enough fibre in your diet? Do you have issues with anything like constipation or diarrhea? Do you have to strain a lot when you go to the toilet, spend a lot of time sitting on, the toilet or often delay going to the toilet to open your bowels?

Lots of heavy lifting might also contribute, if you do a lot of that in your job.

[douglas9401]

Oh I think we do most of the heavy lifting, Eve.

[1ozzy]

That's a real bummer Nailit

[Old_Geezer]

Doubt you'll get a solution here if your GP has actually looked and not found owt. I'd guess you'd need a proctologist with an endoscope, who can scope your, er.... end.

[nailit]

Easy to make a joke about,
But got a history of colon cancer in the family, on my mothers side.
Have a history of bleeding from my arris.
Again, easy to joke about unless you are the recipient.

Agree with Sqad, more than likely piles.
(Though previously had polyps removed after rectum bleeding)
Just getting fed up with having my arris firked about with,
Recieved a hospital appointment today for next wednesday
for yet another camera up my jacksi.

Shall feel a right fool if nothing is found.
Only mentioned it in passing to my GP during a consultation around my BP meds that werent suiting me

[douglas9401]

The medics may pick up the mixed messages you send out.

'I want it fixed but I don't want an examination' seems odd.

[nailit]

///The medics may pick up the mixed messages you send out.//
No mixed messages from me....
1)I dont relish medics firkin up my arris
2) I would like to know why I keep bleeding?

Cant have one without the other,
Not a mixed message...just a wish it wasnt so!!

[douglas9401]

'Firkin up my arris'.

Not a barrel of laughs I agree.

[DTCwordfan]

what age are you, nailit? My old man died of colon cancer and my sister and I, being over 60, are subjected to a bi-annual test -just had one and negative. However, the ideal of all that brown crud floating around the Royal Mail, it's no wonder their service is s*i**y......

[nailit]

Sorry, you lost me DTC?

[TheWinner]

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer-screening/

[DTCwordfan]

Thank you Winner.....are you over 60 nailit? And if so, do you have any history of colon/bowel cancer in the family?

[nailit]

DTC,
IM 56 this year.
Theres a history of Bowel cancer on my mum's side of the family.
(Grandad died from it, uncle survived treatment from it etc)
Im honestly not worried.
But would like to get to the bottom of this
(no pun intended there ^ )
Just fed up of repeated intermittent bleeding from
my arris without knowing why?
For the last 20 plus years ive experienced bleeding from the back-side.
One time I had polyps cut out.
Another time I had piles that had to be cautirized.

A few weeks ago, I had nearly 3 weeks of bleeding everyday.
And then it stopped.
Only mentioned it in passing to my GP
(During a consutation about BP meds)

Never wanted my arris firked about with ever again....
Ah well!!

[nailit]

Ive never had it for two and a half weeks,
everyday.

[DTCwordfan]

wait until you have a speculum up there - and for cameras up the jacksie, knock me out, don't sedate me.....the last time, they found three polys, removed and tested but all ok.

[davebro]

Seriously - get some exhaustive tests for cancer. You are too young to die from something treatable.

[douglas9401]

It's not the camera so much as the lighting rig and catering truck that I object to.

[nailit]

//wait until you have a speculum up there//
Arrhgh......

[DTCwordfan]

All I can say is 'put up with it' though. My old man died of colon cancer at 58. He left things far too long as he thought it was piles -so bad the bleeding to the point he had to borrow my mother's sanitary towels. I came back from France and advised him, only son to father, to go and see one of his Rotary mates if he was too embarrassed to see his GP - he did - and was operated on within 10 days.

Initially, they gave him less than 2 weeks when they went in but once the material was centrifuged and tested, this went back. 5 months later, the parental units came out to visit me in Paris and he was in rude health - three years respite and then it was back, spreading south and taking its time to nail him. If it had gone upwards into his kidneys/liver etc, it would have been far, far quicker.

Get tested....however uncomfortable.