Bloody mucus and fungus! Help

Hello everyone, I don't know what else to do I'm at my wits end

about two years ago I started bleeding when in went to the toilet, a lot of blood (bright red) this happened on and off until last year, I put this down to piles.. around this time, I returned to vegetarianism and started taking iron supplements and decided on a calorie controlled weight loss

I became very constipated and passed blood and mucus with almost every bowel movement, when I say constipated I mean hard stools because I went everyday. I stopped taking the iron supplements thinking that would be the end to it. It's not, I've lost around 45 pounds due to the calorie controlled diet but the constipation (hard stools) has stayed accompanied with mucus blood and what looks like fungus

I'm worried the weight loss may be due to a tumour and coincidental with my diet, I haven't sought a medical opinion yet. I'm a39 year old female

I'd be grateful for any advice thanks x

Post Edited (Lisafive) : 1/25/2014 11:03:38 AM (GMT-7)

Its white in colour, I don't have any other symptoms at all either I dont feel unwell at all

Thanks for your reply

Post Edited (Lisafive) : 1/25/2014 12:34:35 PM (GMT-7)

sounds like mucus to me....get stool samples done. Easy to spot fungus infection.,
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Hard stool can be addressed by drinking more water, eating more fiber, getting exercise to keep the bowels moving and perhaps taking a stool softener.

Mucous in stool is not necessarily a problem, but blood is. If your stool is very hard, this can be irritating to the rectum and cause minor bleeding. Try to modify your diet as noted above and if your stool stays hard get a stool softener like miralax. If you still have blood on your stool with soft stool then you need to see your DR.

Fiber supplements could help, and I would recommend them regardless. I would still recommend a colonoscopy or at least a check up to confirm what is causing this.

Thanks everyone

I feel really good today I used potters cleansing herbs yesterday and I've been the toilet today it was soft with only slight blood there, the relief is amazing! I also went shopping today and bought lots of high fibre foods and I've drank plenty of water

No I'm not a nutritionally sound vegertairian I eat a lot of protein substitute and occasionally I'll stray and have fish, I do eat a lot of sugars but mostly in fruit I also eat a lot of eggs,but I eat veggies as well

I know this sounds stupid but I suffer from anxiety and I really don't want to go to the Doctors, what is Magnesium citrate? Can I buy it from the chemist or health food shop?

It's called quorn it's really popular here in England it's a vegetable protein derived from fungus

Quorn is a disaster, please eliminate it from your diet, or do some research and see how many people have had problems because of it.

http://www.cspinet.org/quorn/

Im going to cut out quorn see if that helps im just going to have to see if i can get a result by the process of elimination. Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm sure my weight loss is down to the calorie controlled diet I was on, I put on a few pounds over Christmas plus I don't feel unwell at all, just uncomfortable due to the constant constipation. I really appreciate everyone's comments I was feeling really down over this your comments (help) means a lot x