Question: I had dinner with my wife for a late valentines Wed night. About two hours later, I had bad stomach cramps and then diahharia. It lasted about four hours then stopped. I chalked it up to food poisoning or something. The next morning I was very tender in lower abdomen and felt like I needed a bowel movement, but didn't really need to. However, I got small chards (small pieces) of blood mixed with stool. Maybe only a spoonful. The same thing happened this morning. Naturally, blood in stool always seems like a concern, but I am eating well and just took a walk (feel ok). What do you think?

Blood was mixed with fecal mass. Also, I do have periodic hemorrhoids. Generally, I see that as light red coloration of toilet paper. I did have that with this incident.

No mucous on stools.

I have had two past incidents with my intestines (1) First was about 8 years ago, I ate sunflower seeds including the shells (dumb - I know) - I think an undigested shell got stuck and it gave me very similar sharp pain but no diahharia. (2) When eating dominoes pizza I get a milder form of this (has happened twice in last 3 years.

Background info: My mom had colon cancer. I had a colonoscopy about 7 years ago (approximate).

Also, like my mom, my digestive system is generally sensitive. The rest of my body is consistently healthy. I take reflux medicine over the counter which keeps that in check, but have to be careful what I eat. A lot of salad kinda "fixes" my system usually.