The poop psa absolutely no one asked for

Every single time I've seen blood in my shit, it's because a hemorrhoid popped.

My grandfather died of colon cancer, he had persistent diarrhoea/constipation (probably cycling, never had him clarify) for a year before he sought any medical attention. So yeah get your body checked up, the best thing you can do for cancer is to catch it early.

Mix some beets into food (don't tell anyone), scare everyone when their poop is red
- I remember when once I ate a ton of red bell peppers and got jumpscared when my shit was red. I think the color was like this:
- I told this story on here way back when I first moved to Lemmy, but I went through a period of eating some sea salted beet chips (fucking delicious btw) for lunch every day. I didnt grow up eating beets, no idea why I tried them, but I didnt realize what was happening when I started pissing red.
  Got in with my PCM and was panicking like "I have blood in my urine and I'm not on my cycle, and it looks different anyway!"
  So he was like "Aight, what did you eat yesterday?"
  I felt like such a fucking idiot wasting his time. But a bunch of kind Lemmings on here assured me that it happens a LOT, and its always better to get checked.
  That being said, there should definitely be a warning on those chip bags for those of us who lack critical thinking skills lmao

to be honest more common reason could be polyps though so dont go crazy the first time you see blood on your stool.

Funny story: once i took a shit that was eerily red and started to panic. I searched and searched for possible causes and then after getting up i noticed in my trash bin an emptied 100g pack of beetroot chips i ravaged in a weed-addled munchies frenzy, and facepalmed
- My first three surgeries were for the removal of a pilonidal cyst. According to the doctor who operated in my tailbone, this and similar events are common causes of panic.
  
  Don't go look this up. You definitely don't want to see the pics. No matter how curious. I warned you ...

Hemorrhoids: Am I a joke to you?
- Anal fissures too
- SHHhh, they still should consult a doctor. Don't give people an excuse to not seek medical help.
  
  in most places you will first need to consult an intermediary person (like a GP or family doctor) who will tell you to wait and observe for a while anyways. it is not like you go to the hospital and they immediately test you. you need to bleed out of your anus for quite a while before they take you seriously...
- No, that's lightly colored blood. Mostly on toilet paper. We're looking for dark red blood here.
  
  Or black.
  
  Light colored but surprisingly high volume 😬

Colorectal people of cancer all affects ages.

I’m eating. Thanks.
- Bon appetite my non-bloody stool dude.

I found it really hard to talk about and seek treatment for this subject at the time, and I was quite aware of how sick I might be. Maybe this will help somebody. I've had the butt-probe three times now, and the good doctor expects me again next year. I'm totally cured. No blood no more. Let me share ...
The critical danger is polyps that grow on the lining of your intestine. They go bad and turn into cancer. Doc wants to snip them off for you. If you are 50 years old, go do that.
The home test ... If it finds any blood at all, you'll fail the test and have to do the colonoscopy. If you're approaching 50, you have polyps, they are bleeding, and its gonna find blood. You can waste your time with the home test or just go get checked.
Most folks with red blood in stool probably have internal hemorrhoids. Lots of things can cause them to flare up, including drinking alcohol, spicy greasy food, and anything else that irritates your gut. This is the best-case scenario. Internal roids are fixable with a (very uncomfortable) outpatient surgery.
The are obviously (MANY) other conditions that can go wrong there (external roids, lobsters up your butt, all sorts of stuff can happen), but these are the big things the doc says when you first talk. Roids and dangling cancer worms. Doc needs to take a look and tell you.
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And then the cure ... oh ya, got the butt probe, got the roids ... um ... "pinned". That lessened the bleeding but didn't fix anything. Turns out my problem was a gut microbe imbalance, most likely brought on by some large doses of antibiotics I had to take for dental surgeries. Some righteous kimchi straight from a backyard in Korea cured me. That and a whole lot of fiber. All the time. Real fiber. Beans. Spinach. Black rice. Gotta feed them gut bugs. Or they will eat you instead.
- i got my first butt probe when i was 15 and my last when i was 20. never have to again.
  
  FOR NOW... My wife had to have them every year from 21-23, then every three years until she was 29. Then 5 years which she's approaching now. If you have a medical history of needing them, you will likely need them again at some point.

Good PSA. RIP TotalBiscuit
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Important PSA. Colon cancer isn’t as deadly as other types and a lot of that is because of all the work that goes into early screening and detection. At the same time, it’s on the rise in younger people.
- I had a very dear friend pass this year from Pancreatic cancer.
  The dogshit thing about Pancreatic cancer (aside from it being cancer) is you generally don't feel unwell until you're quite advanced with it / stage 4 (terminal). That is what happened in my friends case. They gave so much in their short life and had so much more to give.
  I'm sorry, I don't think my comment was overtly substantial; I wanted to echo your point about how insidious cancer can be.
  
  Oh that sucks, sorry for your loss.
  
  I’m so sorry for the loss of your friend. I have a close relative that was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer AND my friend’s dad was diagnosed too. They both slowly were losing weight and were forced into the doctor.
  Anyone reading if you’re losing weight and not doing anything different go to the doctor!
- Yep, was 34 when I got my diagnostic. A year later I had my last chemo last week.
  
  Survive, buddy. Survive.
- I’m sure it’s all those lovely chemicals they put into food mixing and combining weird in your body, if you can create a new drug your body just by snorting cocaine and drinking alcohol I’m sure there’s much worse stuff we don’t even know about going on from all these weirdchemicals
  
  Can't blame the situation on "them". When was the last time you personally cooked some spinach? Do you have wild rice in your kitchen? How about fresh or dried fruit? Nuts?
  If you cook for yourself and make good decisions about what you eat, you will immediately lose weight, your skin will clear, your guts will start working correctly ... oh ... and you no longer worry about what "they" are doing to your food.

I'm upset, delete it

Bright red blood is usually from tearing.
I think the blood from colon cancer would be very dark and coagulated.
- It also really depends where the tumor is located. If its higher up in the colon, then the blood will be darker. But if it's more to towards the end or the sigmoid it can still be red.
  I have IBD and it's located in the sigmoid. My stool can be pretty damn red sometimes
- Any chance you know what it means when the blood is sporadic in timing and volume, and has no discernable cause, but is also red.
  
  Dunno, not really a doctor. Some medications can cause bloody stools and there's also internal hemorrhoids, which don't hurt but can cause bleeding. It can be a lot of things!
  Recurring bleeding is still cause for seeing a doctor regardless of what it is, though.

Well, judging by the name, this is the appropriate community.

D'awwwwww i just had a colonoscopy today. 2 likely benign polyps. I'll know in a week. I then proceeded to eat all the things.
- Yeah I thought the low residue diet and no eating anything for a day before the procedure was more annoying than the colonoscopy itself.

I got really bad hemorrhoids so I would hope its just that. Like If I wipe too hard it bleeds. I need to actually use the cream. Haven't seen any bright red shit in a while though.
- I hear you.
  Obviously, eat fibre etc etc. If that's not possible then the bare minimum I'd suggest is getting some psyllium husk. It's cheap and easy to get powdered fibre. Add a teaspoon to water and drink quickly. Or on your cereal, etc, and eat it.
  Though I personally don't like the taste so I take it in water just before bed.
  Also, spray bidet. If nothing else then get one. It's a game changer. There are ways to attach them to your pipes with no cutting, etc, as well.
  Have your monumental turd then spray and dab. Spray more if necessary.
  No more wiping and wiping. Just spray, dab, check, spray more if needed.
  Your arsehole will thank me.

This gives off vibes of how Tom Green made a song called, "feel your balls" and it was a song about checking your balls for cancer.

fuck cancer. all my homies hate cancer. good on you for making this PSA.

I read this all in Kwite's voice

No one may have asked for it, but everyone needs to know about it.
If this upsets anyone, that’s a small price to pay. Good job, op.

Ass ass inate. Believe it! I need sleep.
- Ass ass I, Nate.
  It's an Isaac Asimov porn parody where the robots are replaced by an extremely white guy for some reason

looks at the blood brownie thing im eating yeah I don't think im hungry anymore /lh
- Ooo can I have it then?
  
  I shall ship it to you posthaste. It's a cranberry flavoured one :3
- Oh God no! I'm sorry.

I get a test mailed to me every year and I get it done. Fuck cancer of any kind, including colorectal cancer.
- Is that a blood test? Those aren't always effective. I kept testing negative even when I had a massive tumor in my bowels. The only thing that really works is going in there and taking a look, i.e. a colonoscopy.
  
  It's a poop test. Its pretty good at finding cancer, but if there's any blood at all its invalid. A good option for people in their 30's and 40's. Older folks probly just need the probe.

I've had bouts of blood in my stool since I was a teenager. No doctor has ever been able to explain it so it's just something I live with.