If it’s bright red, schedule a visit with your doctor. More than likely hemorrhoids.
If it’s dark red or black, try to get to an ER before you lose consciousness.
How alarmed should I be to see stool in my blood?
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superkret@feddit.org 1 day ago
BoobaAwooga@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Bright red, not very. Dark blood, very.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No. Do not listen to this guy. I was raised to just never go to the doctor. Ever. Arm broken? Walk it off. Decapitated? Walk it off. My dad refused to take me to the doctor, or the dentist, or anything that cost money.
So when I was 14, and there was blood in my poop, my dad said “don’t worry about it.”
Several years passed. One day in my 20s my very heavy girlfriend said I couldn’t lift her above my head. I can TOTALLY lift her above my head! So I lifted her above my head. Aaaaaaaand pulled my back. Walk it off.
Then in my 30s pulled my back again doing my job. Walk it off. Worked the whole week in pain. Walk it off. Ig’ll be the weekend soon, you’ll rest then. Walk it off. Sunday I can’t even sit up. The pain was 1000x worse. I never call off work. I called off work to go to the hospital.
The nurse asked me when my last checkup was.
That was a foreign question to me. Check-up? Of what?
Well when was the last time you had a blood test?
Uhhhhhh, never?
Ok, well I’m going to draw some blood, because you look really really pale.
Yeah, obviously. I haven’t been in the sun in like 30 years. But, whatever. My blood is fine, but you do your thing.
30 minutes later
How did you get here?
I took a bus, then took another bus, and then walked 2 streets from the bus stop.
No you didn’t.
Yeah…I did.
Well, your blood count is concerningly low. A male of your age and size should have a score of 16-18. A woman half your size, should have a score of 12-14. Anything less than 7 is at risk of passing out from blood loss. Medical advice is that anything below 5 is already dead. Your score is 3.74. I have no idea how you’re even awake right now, let alone walking.
Well, I’m in a lot of pain. Outside of that, I feel normal.
We’re going to hook you up to a bag of blood to boost your levels. I can’t force you to say yes, but please say yes.
Ok.
90 minutes goes by, full bagbof blood infusion. New blood test. Levels are only at 5.09. Still dangerously low.
2nd bag of blood infusion. 90 minutes later. New blood test. New score 6.40. Remember anything below 7 is still dangerously low. But, legally they can only do 2 bags in a 24 hour period. So they kept me overnight for observation.
Next day, they do a 3rd bag.
They can’t do more than 3 bags in a week. You’re talking levels of blood for someone that lost a limb or something. But my new score was barely over 7. Still really really bad.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Doesn’t bloody fresh red blood mean that whatever is happening is near the exit so more or less treatable.
But dark red or even black means that bleeding is happening deep inside the intestinal tract and you really have to see a doctor and a hospital to get proper treatment as soon as possible.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Note that you probably shouldn’t read this post if you have health anxiety
generally yes but not always. Don’t freak the fuck out without other symptoms. Something as simple as taking pepto bismol can make your stool very dark and it’s obviously benign in that case. Similarly red in your poop can be caused by dietary stuff, classic trigger is beets
Ideally you’d see a doctor just to be safe, especially if it occurs for more than a few days or if you also have other symptoms like dizziness, fatigue, etc.
if you have symptoms like tachycardia or weak heartbeat, pallor, hyperventilation, sweating, excessive fatigue/not alert, etc it’s in the medical emergency zone and you need an emergency room asap.
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
OP is full of shit
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nurse pricks OP’s finger
“…Doctor, we may have an issue.”
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Did you eat beets? If your pee is also red you ate beets and that’s the colour.
spongebue@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I ate beets a few days ago. Wife and I each had a brief panic in our respective morning poops the next day. Hasn’t been an issue since
hydroxycotton@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Reminds me of this m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2WsXIgO6A&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAI…
Krudler@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s actually normal to have occasional blood discharge in stool.
It’s more about frequency and color. If it’s dark red clogs you need to get medical attention right away, if it only happens once and it’s a little bit just don’t worry about it.
Toes@ani.social 1 day ago
Check for hemorrhoids and scratches.
Drunemeton@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Please contact https://www.askadoctor.help/lp/health
I Googled free medical help and that came up. It’s an online chat either a medical professional.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
A doctor will tell you this
“What color is it?”
“Okay. If it continues for (amount of time) come back and give us more money for a sample”
Bright red = end of the colon, not serious. Hemorrhoids, colon wall blood vessel broken. I once ate a lot of sunflower seeds shells and all. Shit blood for a few days form that.
If it’s dark red it could be maybe serious. Could be IBS, blood vessels again just further up. You have to mention other symptoms.
loomi@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Colorectal cancer is rising and especially deadly in the young. The only safe amount of blood in stool is zero.
See a doctor asap for screening to rule out major issues.
Hayduke@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Get referred to a gastrointerologist asap. There are a variety of things it could be, and few of those are anything you can get away with ignoring.
If it’s bright red, could be a ruptured blood vessel from straining to defecate to chrohns disease or ulcerative colitis. The later nearly killed me. Dark red to coffee ground consistency can be stomach ulcers. These can be a one off thing or chrilonic and lead to anemia, malnutrition, cancer etc…
Mind, I’m not a doctor, but I had dealt with serious symptoms of UC for over a decade and would be dead by now had I not gotten surgery. Got pretty familiar with digestive tract issues. Don’t take it lightly
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Go to the doctor
ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Very alarmed. Go to the doctor now.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Where did the bad man touch you?
nezrock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Assuming you meant blood in stool, very. If you actually meant what you typed… checks notes still very.
nick@midwest.social 1 day ago
Doctor here with a second opinion.
What that guy said.
T156@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Same for the other kinds of stool. More than a few phlebotomists would be quite concerned about sitting on a stool and having it start bleeding under them, or seeing stools in a blood sample.