a few months ago i started getting really sharp pains in my anus whenever i passed a bowl movement and then i’d have a really itchy anus afterwards but only for a while. i googled my symptoms and decided to buy anusol hemorrhoid cream as it was either piles or an anal fissure. i also bought fiber supplements because i knew i didnt get enough fiber in my diet. the cream gave the itching and pain instant relief and eventually i got better (or atleast i thought i had done). i stopped taking the fiber tablets cause i kept forgetting and stopped using the cream. now, a few weeks ago, after every bowel movement ive been having uncontrollable itching down there, so bad that i can’t sleep and i try hard not to itch as i heard it made it worse but i just cant help it! i started using the cream again and if anything it just makes it worse! i get no relief from it anymore! and the sharp pain has also come back when im passing stools! the itching is so bad i don’t know what to do. also there appears to be little white bumps around and near my anus but i dont know whether they have anything to do with it. i don’t want to go to the doctors that would be a last resort, and i certainly do not want to have surgery! someone help me please

a few months ago i started getting really sharp pains in my anus whenever i passed a bowl movement and then i’d have a really itchy anus afterwards but only for a while. i googled my symptoms and decided to buy anusol hemorrhoid cream as it was either piles or an anal fissure. i also bought fiber supplements because i knew i didnt get enough fiber in my diet. the cream gave the itching and pain instant relief and eventually i got better (or atleast i thought i had done). i stopped taking the fiber tablets cause i kept forgetting and stopped using the cream. now, a few weeks ago, after every bowel movement ive been having uncontrollable itching down there, so bad that i can’t sleep and i try hard not to itch as i heard it made it worse but i just cant help it! i started using the cream again and if anything it just makes it worse! i get no relief from it anymore! and the sharp pain has also come back when im passing stools! the itching is so bad i don’t know what to do. also there appears to be little white bumps around and near my anus but i dont know whether they have anything to do with it. i don’t want to go to the doctors that would be a last resort, and i certainly do not want to have surgery! someone help me please

Recently I’ve been having bowel movements every morning but the stools are thinner than they used to be, not too much comes out and I haven’t been had an "s" shaped bowel movement in awhile. I don’t have much stomach pain, just some aches every now and then. I bled once about a few months ago when i had a bowel movement and i was worried then. I’m worried again in regards to colon cancer. I am 19 years old and wondering why my stool is thinner and smaller..does that mean colon cancer??

Okay, before I start, this may not be for the faint of heart. Just a Warning.

So I’ve been having these problems for quite some time. It started way back in May…of 2007. I was noticing that there was a lot of blood on the toilet paper after I had gone the bathroom. It was pretty much more or less just blood on the toilet paper until one time the water in the bowl was pretty much completely red. That only happened once. I did go to the doctor and all he said was it’s not external hemorrhoids and gave me a number to a gasteronologist. Only problem is is that I do not have health insurance. So I never went. Now The bleeding kept up for some time but it has stopped in the past few months. Only thing now is that I occasionally get pains in my lower abdomen and my stool can be any from diarrhea to solid but soft consistancy, or sometimes both in one sitting. For the first time in my life I’m passing stools…or rather a stool. It sticks completely together, for the most part, and is one long deposit. I don’t mean to be disgusting but it’s hard with the topic at hand.
Well, I know IBS is something that is in my family. My cousin got treated for Chron’s after being severely sick for about a good chunck of a year but I don’t believe she was ever tested positive for Chron’s. Either way, this stuff does run through my family. My doctor kind of sucks in the sense that he really doesn’t seem interested in what I, the patient, has to say. I think it’s time to change Doc’s.

I notice a little blood every time I pass stools. I noticed when I drank more water it seemed to stop but once I stopped drinking water it came back. I am 32 years old and have wondered what could cause this. I have heard it can be constipation or hemorrhoids or anal fissure or even cancer.