• Anamnesis@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s worth noting for everyone who might be reading this that blood on your toilet paper is 99.9% of the time from hemorrhoids or wiping too much, not from colon cancer. You’re looking for dark stool and all these other symptoms, not a tiny amount of bright red blood on your toilet paper.

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      1 month ago

      And the rest of the symptoms listed can be literally anything. I remember experiencing some symptoms and looked it up and of course everything says cancer. Went to three different doctors and the only thing they really said is that I have an anxiety problem lol.

      I don’t look up symptoms anymore.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      IIRC it’s not so much the color of the stool as it is the texture; grainy/gravelly texture implies internal bleeding