I think I have hemorrhoids since I have lumps. It takes time to go to the bathroom. Maybe I'll be having to go for a day but my body needs to get ready. Im assuming so my hemorrhoids go in and then they come out again with some time. My stool is very large and its painful to go to the bathroom, I also experience bleeding. I've experienced constipation normally since I was around 11. Now at 20 probably every time I go to the bathroom this happens. I think i've had these external hemorrhoids for about 2 years now, they might have been internal before because I experience bleeding and constipation as well. Before maybe 6 years ago, I used to get these pains in my left side after I would eat, not very painful but uncomfortable. Now I feel kind of nauseated after I eat sometimes. And then when I go to the bathroom I feel like the lower part of my belly is bruised and its grumbling, not too painful but uncomfortable. What i told my doctor was that I had hemorrhoids and been constipated since 11. I said i was going to try to eat more fiber. I try to eat more fiber but im not very not regular with it. My stools are sometimes gray but they are large thick and long. I have to break it apart with a rod for it not to clog the bathroom. I don't think that is something normal and don't want to have to keep doing that. I think maybe I eat to fast or don't chew well maybe this will help? Reason I mention all of these is that I fear maybe its more than hemorrhoids and maybe i should get checked for colon cancer but I have read the stools for people who have that are narrow pencil thin, mine is not but maybe I show the other symptoms? To my knowledge no one in my family has had colon cancer, but my grandmother, my father, and my sister, we all experience constipation. My grandmother and father drink a tea that has senna tea leaves so that helps them, but I don't drink it and don't wouldn't want to become dependent on it.
Thank you for your time.