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Main Forums => Living With HIV => Topic started by: HowYouDoin on March 14, 2011, 01:43:08 am
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I am freaking out now. I have notices this lump before but have ignored it for about a year or more thinking it was nothing serious but on occassion i have blood in my stool and diahhrea unrelated to meds. I just checked on my own and felt that same polyp or lump and it is pretty big and am thinking i may have something serious. I am freaking out. can someone please give some input.
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You've mentioned this in your other thread.
The only input you need is *GO TO YOUR GUM CLINIC or REGULAR GP* and get checked out. Explain the symptoms in full.
It really is not good for you to worry about it and post about it here rather than just go to a physician.
You should *always* go to a Doctor when you notice blood in your stool.
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How, you are fortunate to be living in New York, where the doctors are much more up-to-date about the issues regarding anal HPV infection and possible cancer in PLWHA. You need to have an anal Pap smear and/or a high-resolution anoscopy. The latter can be done by an appropriate colorectal specialist. Speak to your primary-care provider or infectious-disease specialist ASAP.
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has anyone had hemhroids? can it just be that?
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No one here is a medical practitioner and no one can examine you, so no one can even remotely give you an answer that is useful.
It will be a working day for you in a few hours - better to get some sleep and then when you wake up make plans to visit a Doctor.
Good luck
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Go to a doctor, diagnosis by internet is ineffective.
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has anyone had hemhroids? can it just be that?
I have hemorrhoids for a long time. I didn't know what that was. I can't stand for a long time and it was sometimes very painful. A blood on your stool also is also one of its sign. And one time my anus came out and being frightened I went to the doctor and go for a surgery. Then it was after few months that I started treatment for HIV. In fact this hemorrhoid was not related to my HIV status as it has been with me for a very long time. After surgery now I am very fine. So my advice to you, if you think you have that disease go to your doctor and there is effective medical treatment which you should undergo.
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It is most likely to be a haemorrhoid or sommat also simple but you need to get you doc to look up your bum, and perhaps take a swab too, to find out for sure. If it is something more serious you don't want to wait and find out.
- matt
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Yep, could be cancer. Might want to have it looked at by a doctor.
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Went to the doctor today and he said i am fine but have a few hemroids.e gave me some things to stick up my butt 3x a day to ease the pain and swollen nerves. should be ok. IT is those damn commercials on tv playing here in NYC stating that we are 17 x more likely of anal cancer but my doc said even if it;s true which it is, it is still like less than 1% of hiv poz people who get it. so i am happy now...
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Good to hear its not cancer. You might wanna go to the doc once a year just to make sure nothing develops, and to keep track.