Hope it turns out to be nothing and eases your fears! My sister and I have a rule of thumb: wait 3 months to see if it goes away on its own, and if it doesn’t have it checked out. Last year I was having all this bleeding (a lot!)and had never ever had a colonoscopy, then I worried about it so much that my stomach started hurting, then it was a vicious cycle of worry causing new symptoms and new symptoms causing new worries.

I Googled it and people in online health blogs said things like, “The first sign of my colon cancer was bleeding and by then it was too late, now I’m stage four.” I finally had the damn colonoscopy and found out if was a hemorrhoid. Everything’s been find since.