If you have minor pressure and discomfort when sitting, for approximately 3 months now, and OTC gels only help a little, is it time for a doctor?

I was under the impression doctors could only do surgery for extreme cases -whereas I am still wondering id i even have hemorroid.
OK -what I mean to ask is how and what do doctors actually do to determine if you have
them and what can be given to reduce inflamation better than OTC stuff?

I had a virus that caused diarrhea, now I am in pain and some bleeding. I have a doctors appointment in 2 week (unrelated visit).

Hi,

Last August I started getting blood spots on the toilet paper after a bowel movement. Upon finding this I immediately went to the doctors. The doctor referred me to a specialist. The specialist performed a Ridgid Sigmoidoscopy and said he seen two 2nd degree internal piles. I demanded further tests, however, and he booked me in for Flexible Sigmoidoscopy.

A few weeks later I had the Flexible Sigmoidoscopy and the surgeon performing it told me my sigmoid colon was fine, and the biopsies came back fine. He said he seen no piles, however. He claimed that the bleeding probably came from an anal fissure.

I have no pain during a bowel movement, only occasionally a burning sensation. As odd as it sounds, I felt around the anus after a bowel movement and felt a lump slightly protruding from my rectum, so i push it back in. A small amout of blood was on my finger. The blood is bright red and I have had a streak or two on the actual stool.

I have taken up bodybuilding again recently, and consume 30-40g of fiber a day. My stools are much larger than before I started this, and bleeding has worsened.

Is this piles, or something more serious?

Thanks

Hi All,

I am suffering following issues:
1. I have soft stool constipation
ie the stools neither watery nor hard stools, inbetween both the states
so i am not able to hv a bowel movement regularly
or when i have it is always incompelte.
As a result of which i always pass wind.
Because of too much passage of wind my ass is smelly, sweaty
and anal opening is always irritated.
2. Right side anus pain
I always have right side anus pain. Its completely random.
It will start randomly and end it the same way.
No matter medicine i take, it does not have any effect.
Also if touch the right side, i cannot find the suitable area where i get the pain.

I have done proctoscopy, colonscopy everything came negative.

In colonscopy, what doctor told is that my stools were sticking to the intestine.
Basically its the sticky, not movable stool problem.

And one doctor told me tht my anus opening is very tight or external swelling is blocking my
path. But none of the doctors tell tht i have a piles problem.
Though i had piles, fissures and anal abscess previously.
Helllo July,

I did not find any relevant data over there

A relative of mine has had them for years, with consequent ocassional bleeding and discomfort, mostly when suffering from extreme constipation. But still someone on another part of the family, has had real bad case over the years, maybe two decades already. And in the last six months or so has been having the worse of smell, such as "cheese". At least three different doctors have seen this person for other problems, and become aware of this.

There is bleeding almost daily, and have been inflammated for a long time. The smell just keeps appearing, but doctors don’t seem to give it much importance. Is this okay?