Bleeding

Hun It sounds like all thenstraining has created a fissure - it is when the rectum tears due to all the straining...

I unfortunately get them too. Fresh blood readilly visible on the toilet paper and at times you will even feel it run is usually a fissure.

Try not to strain much and as soon as you are done on the toilet up you go and lie down. It is better to get up and go to the toilet 20 times than to sit on it for a long time as fissures as well as bkeeding hemmoroids need you to lie down and leave the bowles and rectum rested.

If thebbleed calms down on its own and it is not visible during the non-loo episodes it means it is healing so do not panic over it. Do keep an eye out as we do not clot well on chemo and you do not want to bleed too much but just seeing red blood in the stool should not worry you enough to think bowel cancer.

It is just your poor bowels being tortured by this whole Chemo eexoerienc. If just hemmiroids they heal in a matter of weeks. Fissure is more likely to take a few months and you need to ask for help with making them heal.

Gastroentorologist I see has me use suppositories which contain steroid in them and while it is uncomfortable to insert when the fissure tirn and have to be super carefull not to insrease the tear they help me a great deal as they help keep the area sorft and lubricated and they speed up healing. It is worth speaking with the Oncologist or GP and even having them send you to a Gastroentorologist for a proper diagnosis and management plan.

These things are uncomfortale and painfull but I promise they can be managed and with most people.will not come back once they heal.

Hugs

Jel.