I was in a fugue state drawing this. If it is in any way upsetting, I will delete it.
Every single time I've seen blood in my shit, it's because a hemorrhoid popped.
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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.
Yep, was 34 when I got my diagnostic. A year later I had my last chemo last week.
Survive, buddy. Survive.
Hemorrhoids: Am I a joke to you?
Anal fissures too
No, that's lightly colored blood. Mostly on toilet paper. We're looking for dark red blood here.
Yes and no. It just depends where along your GI tract the cancer is.
If the cancer is further up in your colon, the bleeding can turn your poo a dark color. BUT if you have cancer near to the "exit hole" (in your rectum or anus), it absolutely can involve bright red bleeding.
Also fun fact. Eating a metric fuckload of blueberries will also make your poo very dark lol. Found that out one day and I mildly scared the crap out of myself before remembering what I ate. Beets can also give you some fun colors.
Good PSA. RIP TotalBiscuit
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This is how Ulcerative Colitis goes too.
I'm colorblind, i'll just die of cancer.
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.
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.
Thanks for sharing
fuck cancer. all my homies hate cancer. good on you for making this PSA.
There is 1 good reason to not do this if you live in the US and here's why. Let's say you don't have health insurance. You get a diagnosis and you have cancer. It's going to cost 10 jillion dollars to do anything about it because healthcare providers don't give regular people the same prices as the health insurance companies get charged. Well lets say a year later you get a job with health insurance. Now you can't have health insurance cover that because they can prove it's a "preexisting condition". Have fun getting all your wages confiscated due to all that medical debt so you'll have to choose between dying in homelessness or having to flee to a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US. Or maybe Mike Johnson will let you live out the rest of your days in gulag out of generosity.
If you know something is wrong with you and are in a similar situation you're probably just better off making the most of the time you have left on your own terms.
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.
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:
Wow! I love red bell peppers but I've never ate enough of them to do this! I'm impressed!
I found an awesome blue drink-mix this week that turned my poop a nice solid Grinch color
10/10, would recommend for the holidays.
Ya, blue drinks make green poop!
How about we try to find a food for every poop color? We could make a huge colorful painting and call it 50 Shades of Shit
Genious!!!
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
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