When I have my bowel movement I do not poop blood but I can see blood in the toilet paper. It this external hemorrhoid or anal fissure.

I do have an external hemorrhoid because I had a doctor examine me, and It never used to bleed really ever. Now these past 3 months I’d say I’ve bled about 11 times or so. It is bright red blood nothing bad looking or anything like that. It just seems I’m starting to bleed more frequently than usual. Once during this 3 month period I went for almost 30 days without any problems whatsoever. Now it seems like its acting up, and its never a lot of blood at all, a few drops, and some blood on the toilet paper. Anyone else experience anything like this with your bleeding hemorrhoid?
**3 Months ago I did have a doctor examine me and confirm I had an external Hemorrhoid.**

ive been having anal bleeding for about 2 months now. My anus gets extremely itchy when i wipe and it starts to bleed everytime i use friction on the toilet paper with bright red blood. my stool appears normal color, but sometimes i get diahrrea does this sound like hemmorhoids? ps im 20 yrs old.

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.

Im worried i may have it. I was wondering if you could tell me the symptoms you had and how severe it was and how long did you ignore it before going to the doctors?

Did it get worse over time? Give me as much information as possible, thanks.
Just to add, im 18 years old and being worrying about finding blood on the toilet paper for 3 years now.
Iv ignored it for 3 years because i dont want to believe it could be anything serious, its too embarrassing and i hate how they diagnosis Bowel cancer, with scopes going up your butt….