Hi everyone,
I am Robert. In the past year, I found several times bright red blood stripe the one side surface of my stool. I went to see a doctor for this. The doctor did sigmoidoscopy and found nothing. As bleeding continued (not so often, about two to three continuous days per month), I went to see doctor again. This time he gave a anoscopy and found hemorrhoids.
However, recently I noticed that there are usually some small, thin, hard, star-like stool, which constituted the front end of a big stool. It is very hard to describe the shape of the star-like stool. It looks like they formed when the stool pass through a narrow and star-shaped tube. Please see the link below for pictures.
Big stool which came out first during bowel movement
http://i66.tinypic.com/madpus.jpg
many small star-like stool which constitute the front end of big stool
http://i63.tinypic.com/3353vvs.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/2m5aqls.jpg
one of the star-like stool
http://i63.tinypic.com/207t21g.jpg
My question is: Are these small star-like stool normal or do they resulted from a serious condition like colon cancer?
Thanks so much!