I am still having spotting with BMs. I had a couple days where I had very loose watery stools & am keeping them that way, I take 2 stool softeners every day. The sharp tearing pain has mostly gone away now with BMs, but I am still having blood spotting on tissue even after a soft BM. Why is this? Is spotting with less pain a good sign? Like I said, the sharp tearing pain I had back in Nov/Dec has subsided, maybe this is due to time, maybe partly the Nifed/Lidocaine I've been using.
So why am I still spotting? I asked my GP last week, he said he thought it looked better (from the outside) & I asked him if the blood is probably coming from the fissure & nowhere else? He said probably yes. He didn't seem too concerned.
I saw my CRS in December he scoped me & saw the fissure & said basically wait & see, he said I wouldn't be a good candidate for surgery due to it being a lateral fissure & me having HIV (although my numbers are excellent).
But the question I keep coming back to is why, even with my softer stools, do I still have blood spotting on toilet paper after BM? I have had two colonoscopies recently, the last one a year ago, & all was ok other than an inflamed polyp which I had to have surgically removed.
My CRS scoped me post-op in July (before fissure) & said all was well, he scoped me again in December & saw the fissure (which I had just gotten) but said nothing about internal hemorrhoids or any new polyps. I was wondering if maybe I have another inflamed internal polyp, but I doubt it because I've been scoped so many times in the last year & nothing else was seen. I do have low-grade HPV but nothing as far as malignancy.
So is my spotting probably from the fissure or what's left of it? Would it be a new polyp, could one have formed since December when I was last scoped or do they take years to form.
I'm just puzzled, why when my stools are soft & BMs are mostly painless, do I still have spotting this is nerve racking.