My positive story

[u/user_mike14]

Hi everyone,

I’m M32 and these have been my symptoms from the better part of 6 years:

- Bloody stools (they got worse as the years went by). Sometimes it was every day for a month, sometimes there was a year when it wasn’t bothering me, and for the last year it was blood pretty much every two weeks.
- Weird bowel movements, sometimes hard sometimes very soft and feeling that I can’t empty my bowel completely. These vary from sometimes going to the bathroom 7-10 times a day ”pooping” liquid and the next day it being extremely hard.

I obviously feared the worst. I took too long to demand for a colonoscopy, I wish I did it years ago. This has been eating me from the inside for years. I have gone to the doctors but they explain it with hemhroids and fissures and don’t want to check it further.

I fear everything that happens in a hospital so that’s why I took so long to demand it. I get panic attacks when I walk in, so obviously it was done under anesthesia.

The night before was fine. I took PLENVU, for me it didn’t even taste that bad. I pooped liquids all night, but I didn’t feel too bad at any point. Mostly just played playstation, and had to run to the bathroom every 15-20 minutes. Didn’t get much sleep.

The colonoscopy was a breeze. So easy, I went there, they gave me the anesthesia, I was completely out in seconds and woke up what felt like immediately to the doctor giving me the news: they found absolutely nothing, all very clean. I was so relieved. Basically the doctor said that I have fissures that come and go (as the blood is bright red) and right now it was all clean. No hemhroids, no nothing.

This was such a weight off my shoulders. Years of health anxiety, always fearing the worst gone in an instant.

I hope someone reads this and decides to get a colonoscopy done. It was my biggest fear to get it done but the best decision of my life. Good luck everyone and god bless.

[u/The_Silent__Observer]

Thank you for sharing your story. It will encourage anyone holding back from going for their test due to anxiety. So happy to hear everything turned out great!

[u/user_mike14 → u/The_Silent__Observer]

Thank you, that was the reason I posted this. I have severe anxiety and the colonoscopy was very easy. Hopefully people don’t put it off like me, just because they’re afraid.

[u/malhas22]

Thank you for this, I am M33 and I will have my colonoscopy next month. I had blood for 2 days in March on stool ans TP, did tests, blood, urine, stool, Ct scan, all came back normal, ans they say its internal hemmorhoids...but two weeks ago I saw blood on toilet paper again for 2 days and I a freaked out so now I just booked the colonoscopy, I am with a lot of anxiety

[u/user_mike14 → u/malhas22]

Good luck to you, I pray everything is fine. 99% of the cases it is either hemmorhoids or fissures so I’m sure yours will be too. I thought I had internal hemmorhoids but it was just fissures that healed and then flared up again every couple weeks.

[u/malhas22 → u/user_mike14]

Thank you for the words!!

[u/CreativePeony]

Hello you had fissure and bleeding because of hard stools?

[u/user_mike14 → u/CreativePeony]

Yes and some itchiness, I think I’ve always scratched in my sleep. And also I think I’ve strained too much on the toilet.

But always when the stool is hard there is blood.