I’ve had to combat hemorrhoids since I became a mom. This is the first external thrombosed hemorrhoid I’ve ever had and it’s much more painful. Can it be treated with the same over the counter remedies or should I see a doctor?

You only have one life.One life to be the best you can be ,one life to be remembered by, one life.I am in love with the violin. i am in love with medical things. My mom died from cancer when i was 13 andi havnt been the same since. She told me that i could not play the violin so i got private lessons i am one of the best in my orchestra since then all i wanted to do was play music i loved the way it made me feel. But my feelings changed fast when i discovered the human anatomy. at first it was hard to watch medical things because of my mom.But i started watching shows like scrubs and greys anatomy and house and loved them.. i love the lab coats i want to save peoples lifes i want to be a seargin i understand the school that u have to go threw the debt i will be in i understand. But i want to save lives.colon cancer runs in my family and i am confident that i wont die if i understand it if i get sreeened for polyps. ik that i can save lives and like blood and i do research on nuerology and hearts and everything. but i love music and all of my friends are going to music school i do nt want to make a mistake and go to med school and think i made the rong decisian i also dont wanna go to music school and miss out on the oppurtunity of med school im 15 and time is running out idk wat to do.

Hi, i’m an 18 years old girl, and i just got diagnosed of polyps on my colon.

I think i have actually noticed that something was not normal with my abdomen since about 2 or 3 years ago, cause i noticed that bright red blood occurs several times when i went to the toilet. but i thought it was okay, so i didnt tell my parents yet. and then about 9 months ago, i told my parents about it and we instantly assumed that it was hemorrhoid (since my father and his siblings have had taken hemorrohoid surgery). but then later on this week, i went to the gynecologist because my period circulation is very rapid, and when the doctor check my rectum with his finger, he told me to go to the surgeon because he’s suspicious of the hemorrhoid.

So right after that, I went to my uncle who is a surgeon (he haven’t know about my “hemorrhoid” yet). And then he “slipped in” a tube like sort of thing into my rectum and I don’t know what happened back there but I hear my uncle told my mom and the nurse beside him to look at those little grape like things. Then my uncle said that it wasn’t hemorrhoid but it was polyp. So I have to take surgery, and then after the polyp has lifted, it will be sent into the lab for a test. But my uncle told me that he wants me to go to another surgeon (digestive surgeon to be specific) before operation. And he said that how can you haven’t notice anything about it until today? You should’ve noticed it, since the polyps are not small (he didn’t said that they were big though). And I told him that I noticed the fresh blood and the mucus, but I thought that it was hemorrhoid.

I know that I will get the diagnoses from these doctors, but since I’m just curious and I haven’t made any appointments with another surgeon yet, can you help me with these questions please?
1.Is it possible that my uncle is mistaken? I mean that it really was a hemorrhoid.
2.If it is polyp, can you give a quick diagnose if this polyps are harmless polyps or not (cancer etc)?
3.Is it possible to have a colon cancer at the age of 18?

I’m 15 so it isn’t like I’m a perv or anything weird. I begged my mom to take me to the video game store which she did but then she had to stop at the dollar store to get tampons, rubber bands, and hemorrhoid creme. While we were there we saw my crush with her older sister. I made a comment about it being weird that women use a cream opn their nipples, which I saw in the hemorroid aisle, and she explained why they use it and when I said breastfeeding was gross, she loudy stated, "well, you were breastfed and I’m glad I did it ‘cuz it made you a healthier baby." She heard and laughed out loud. Also, why don’t I remember sucking on my mom’s boobs as a baby? Do you think mom is lying to me? How to live this down to my crush before school starts next month?

Every couple of months, I feel this extremely sharp pain in my rectum and when you push on my lower abdomen, it gets worse. It is unbearable and no position will alleviate it so I just lay on the floor and cry. It happened again yesterday and soon after I had a bowel movement. it was so bad that my mom almost rushed me to the hospital. I’m 17, a girl and have had chronic prolapsed hemorrhoids for 2 years now. My mom thinks it could be IBS but has this every happened to anyone else and if so what is it or what could it be?