I’ve noticed a change in my toilet habits and my fecal matter. I get diarrhea sometimes, when I really have to go, and I’m a bit constipated when I don’t have to go. When I go normally, it’s not as ‘solid’ as it used to be, and the color is more of a yellow. A while ago, there was what seemed to be mucus too. This started happening when I changed my diet.

I have no family history of bowel cancer, and I have a pretty healthy diet, and I’m quite active (I go swimming and walking a lot, and have PE 3 days a week)…
It’s changed…as in I’ve been a lot more than I used to…I used to be a really fussy eater and ate the same thing everyday, it’s more varied now

Another weird question I can’t find an answer for on any website:
A lot of people have hemorrhoids bad enough that they will bleed when they go to the bathroom.
Now, this means that fecal matter passes by a wound, an opening in a vein. The fecal matter is alive with bacteria that can, if they get into your system, cause all kinds of conditions. Yet I have never heard of people getting sick. Wouldn’t you expect something like blood poisoning to happen? Feces and open, bleeding wounds aren’t supposed to mix well.
I am obviously missing something here, but I just can’t figure it out. Statistically, you just would have to expect people to infect themselves occasionally.
zbelle60: Usually with hemorrhoids you do not bleed all the time when you defecate, only occasionally. Looking at it from a statistical point of view there simply have to be times when E.coli or othere germs would have to enter the vein.
Your immune system will kick in and produce antibodies and send out leucocytes, but still, sometimes germs overpower the immune system. People die of blood poisoning from small wounds.
haslo: Well, while I know a toothbrush is a haven for bacteria (that’s why I dry mine out and change them regularily), still and all, the bacteria get washed down your stomach – and in general the hydrochloric acid in our stomach takes good care of lower doses of bacteria, else our species would have died out long ago.
And as far as our immune system taking care of small wounds – this is generally true, but not always. So why don’t hemorrhoids ever kill you, but a scratch can?

I’m 22 and I haven’t seen a doctor yet, but I have the most painful case of hemorrhoids I swear. It started out just itching, but now it’s honestly like my anus is plugged and every time I take a crap it tears through the hemorrhoids.

I avoid goign to the bathroom without suppasotories. Last night I used them and they turned the fecal matter into mush yet it was still the worst and most painful experience yet. I still can’t sleep… COnstant throbbing. I use preparation H, but I can’t even get the applicator into the anus anymore. I don’t see the hemorrhoids from the outside, so I’m assuming these are internal.

I could go on and on but this is the most painful thing I’ve ever gone through. I don’t have health insurance right now. I’ve heard the surgery is painful, but I’m already in terrible pain. Is it costly? And does it work? I can’t keep shoving suppositories up my tooshie every time I need to go to the bathroom.

My standard short haired chihuahua has what I think is hemorrhoids. What makes me think this is the fact that when I looked him over his anus was protruding out and looked swollen. I am no expert with hemorrhoids but this was my first guess. He has been having straining bowel movements. At first he had diarrhea all the time now he has solid fecal-matter which he struggles to push out. The pieces are broken apart and seem to be connected to a stand of hair every time. I am really sorry if this is TMI but my fiance and I have zip, zero, and zilch money to take him to the vet. So if this sounds like hemorrhoids what should I do to treat it? Are there any at home remedies? If not will he die because of no treatment? Any of you who have experience with your dogs and hemorrhoids I am looking for your answers. Thanks.
I’m dead serious. Neither my fiance and I work. We have no savings. We just hit a crisis not that long ago. I am not an evil person. I love my baby Dinky and I would totally take him to the vet if I had any kind of money. But seriously though. I literally have 0 money between my fiance and I. I feel really bad for my baby but there is nothing I can do for him right now.