Question: Other than this problem, I'm a healthy 72 yr old male. I have partially blocked colon symptoms at the sigmoid & anus juncture. Usually starting around noon, I can feel the blocked fecal matter bulging out on my left side & extending back behind the top of my scrotum. Sometimes I can get it to move into my anus with massage & manipulation, sometimes not and, back then, sometime it would move backwards. A year ago, when this started, the mass would usually move by itself if I laid down for 15 to 30 seconds and always, then & now as I slept. Except for those few times I coughed or sneezed, I had no serious pain or cramps until now. The lump is usually always there now, except first thing in the morning until a few minutes after I stand.
Yesterday afternoon, minutes after a bowel movement, I sneezed & a 'lump' zoomed down my intestine & (really) slammed into the obstruction. This happened before on other occasions when I coughed but not with such force & certainly not with such pain. I had to lie down immediately & for the rest of the day. This morning, after my usual urgent bm, I saw blood, mucous & worm-like' strings' on the tissue paper. It appeared & smelled similar to my dog's little presents he left for me back when he had colitis.
I saw a Dr. about this back when it all started over a year ago. The appointment was in the morning & no lump had yet formed. I mentioned "volvulus" but, since I could pass gas, she dismissed it as a sprain or strained muscle. I argued that I've had both those injuries in the past and their symptoms didn't go away over night, then return each afternoon, but, as she pointed out, what does a layman know? I think it's just old sagging colon tissue that collapses under gravity when I stand. What do you think?