Mucus and blood in stool

Eliminate all grains and all dairy and see if that helps. Your doctor is a Ventolin-caliber mental defective.

take some metamucil. helped with the bleeding, and limited the amount of mucus.

Get a 2nd opinion?

First of all, doctors know very little about nutrition, so i wouldn't take his/her word as gold.

You could possibly be eating too much of a certain grain, maybe? I know that when I eat a lot of fiber, this can happen to me. I used to eat Kashi crunch every morning and I had to stop b/c I was so bloated and gassy all the time.

Also, raisins do the worst things to my GI.

Mess around with your diet. Reintroduce dairy and cut out grains for a few days and see what happens.

If I was experiencing an inflamed GI, the first thing I would remove from my diet is nuts. Nuts can literally cut the lining of your GI, and if you're running a lot, odds are your GI is highly active and irritable to begin with.

Are you taking any pills? Iburprophen can destroy your stomach/GI, even if you only take it with food. I had serious GI issues, especially post-run, when I was taking 600mg/day for a hip issue years back.

Your GI tract is inflammed. It could be the result of a bacterial or viral infection or something more serious. Blood in stool after a week, I would take that seriously.

This is pretty vague- could be anything from bacterial infection (e. coli, campylobacer, salmonella...) to inflammatory bowl disease to celiac disease, and many others.

Pertinent things to know:

-How long? Days make infections more likely, weeks to months you're likely looking at a non-infecious issue

-Family history? If you have several relatives with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, that moves inflammatory bowel disease up.

-Losing weight? Celiac and inflamatory bowel disease moving up.

-Any recent antibiotic use? Can set you up for a certain type of colitis.

-Tried going gluten free? (no wheat/barley/oats/rye) If you improve with this, makes celiac a possiblity. Simple blood test available for this.

-Ibuprofen can indeed tear up your stomach, but the blood is usually seen as black stools (digested blood). Red blood in stool is usually coming from the colon, or distal small bowel (or, from a very fast upper bleed- but you'd be in serios trouble by now if that was the case).

Did your doctor ask any of these questions, or do anything other than tell you to eat a bland diet? If not, see a different doctor. They should ask about all of these details, do a thorough abdominal exam (including a rectal), and get bloodwork and a stool sample. If this has been going on for any sort of time, you need a colonoscopy, or at least a flexible sigmoidoscopy (mini-colonoscopy)

-MN MD

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Thank you, MN MD.

I was just about to post that my cousin had blood in his stool that went on for longer than a week. It was stage 3 rectal cancer. He survived, but his message was clear...If you see blood in your stool, go to the doctor and always get a 2nd opinion.

this one, too wrote:

Nuts can literally cut the lining of your GI, and if you're running a lot, odds are your GI is highly active and irritable to begin with.

Iburprophen can destroy your stomach/GI, even if you only take it with food.

Both of these points interest me. Do you have any further info to help me start looking into these issues? To the original poster, I was going to say cut out the nuts for a while and see what happens.

Thanks for the advice everyone. Here are a few things.

-It has been happening on and off for a few months usually I experience it for two days and then it goes away for a week or so.

- About the nuts...I have tons of nut butter, could this be a factor? (I dont eat whole nuts much)

- I have not been gaining or losing any significant weight

- I had was negative in a blood test for celiac disease about a year ago.Although I have heard some people can be gluten sensitive if they test negative. Wheat is definitely my main carbohydrate source and I do eat A LOT of bread, so I might try cutting that out for a bit.

- As far as pills, I take, iron, vitamin C, Vitamin D and omega 3s

- My second opinion, the school health center told me to fast for a day and drink broth: Can't really do that with the amount Im running.

In short:

It's not normal to have blood/mucus in stools, even intermittently, for months. If it was just blood, one could perhaps posit hemorrhoids, and blame the iron for constipating you. But not the mucus, and even still, months of bleeding would be pretty abnormal.

Your second opinion was as bad as the first. Go see a doctor, preferably one that someone recommends (ask your parents if they have any physician friends, and have them ask one of them who they would recommend you see).

You are looking at a scoping of some sort in your future.

RunForever wrote:

- My second opinion, the school health center told me to fast for a day and drink broth: Can't really do that with the amount Im running.

Go find a real doctor. Like a gastroenterologist.

OldManRunner wrote:

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Thank you, MN MD.

I was just about to post that my cousin had blood in his stool that went on for longer than a week. It was stage 3 rectal cancer. He survived, but his message was clear...If you see blood in your stool, go to the doctor and always get a 2nd opinion.

Especially if the blood is dark. If it is bright red on the paper, it is likely some sort of hemorrhoids or other skin irritation on your anus.

I would not be concerned about this, but most importantly I would most definitely NOT go to see some medical quack idiot doctor. Any one of them could very quickly turn something benign into a very very serious issue that could mess you up for the rest of your life and also greatly shorten your life.

What I would do personally is take a good look at your diet, especially cutting out the nuts and the grains. Rice ia not a very good food, has no nutrition and is hard to digest. Be sure to eat lots of greens.

While you're doing that, I would have a good enema every night for about a week before sleeping, then gradually taper them off to a couple times a week, once a week, then periodically whenever you feel the need for one.

Tell your lover to start using a condom when he jams you up the ass.

You need a colonoscopy and possibly egd. Start with a rectal exam and go from there. If you complained of bleeding, and they didn't kook at your ass, go get a new doc. Sounds quite alot like crohn's or ulcerative colitis. Diverticular bleeding/hemorrhoids is possible as well. Though, I'm leaning toward the former. Good luck.

Nice Guy Who Listens wrote:

raisins do the worst things to my GI

Tell me more about that please. I've been trying to figure out some GI problems recently, definitely something to do with my diet, and coincidently have been eating raisins.

See the gastro guy. This sounds like ulcerative colitis ( IBS issue ) , blood and mucus is prime indicator.

Do not screw around with this home remedy stuff. Its treatable , jump on it now.