Hey, so I feel pretty embarrassed even being a member of this site...if any of my friends stumble upon the registration email in my inbox, I'll never live it down! But then again I'm SO GLAD TO HAVE FOUND YOU ALL!
I'm pretty desperate for good, real, honest advice. I'm sick of googling things. So I just wanted to describe my problems and see what you experienced people think...
I've suffered from mild constipation fairly often since I was little, I guess. I will admit my diet isn't that fantastic, I'm naturally thin as a stick and have never been able to put on weight so I tend to eat what I want. My appearance doesn't suffer but my arse does...I think I recall seeing blood on the toilet paper after going a few times during the past year or two, but I don't remember any specific times where it hurt that badly during or afterwards. HOWEVER, recently I've noticed a lump at the bottom of my anus. It's not solid, or really all that sensitive, just sort of like a lump of loose-ish skin. I'm guessing this is a skin tag (after reading ALOT). What's the deal with those?
Anyway, about four days ago after noticing the lump I had a bowel movement - it didn't really hurt that badly. It just burns a little bit while I'm on the toilet and then for ten or fifteen minutes afterwards. But it's not unbearable or anything. Just a bit inconvenient. Also, there's the TINIEST bit of blood. Like a tiny, tiny brownish-red spot or two. Waking up the next morning though, about nine or ten hours after this bowel movement, I had this incredibly uncomfortable feeling. Whenever I moved my legs, or bent over, or lifted something, or made a sudden movement, my anus would sting, really suddenly. It's a really weird pain. What does this mean? It lasted that whole day, and the day afterwards, my anus was a bit itchy at certain times. Sometimes so much it was tempting to scratch but I didn't.
Throughout my life I've only ever had bowel movements every two to four days. This could be really unhealthy seeing as I think most people go every day. Is that bad? So tonight, after holding it in for a while in the hope of 'healing', I went to the toilet again. Again, it didn't hurt very much going. Not like passing glass, or anything like you guys describe. But it just burned again...and there was the tiniest bit of blood. Not even blood, sort of just like, weeping.
Now I'm really afraid I'll wake up with that really annoying stinging whenever I move again. What do you guys think? Going by my symptoms, what stage do you think I'm at? Are things looking good, or not too good? Are they going to get worse? Just going by your experience etcetera. I don't want to go to a doctor - I'm 16, so I don't have an independent Medicare card or anything yet, which means I'd have to tell my parents all about it if I wanted to go. Which means the rest of the family would find out and God knows who else. I can't face that embarrassment at the moment because it's really not hurting that bad!
ANY type of advice or knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much for reading all of that
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