A long 3-4 inch long white/brown string hanging from and attached to hard fecal stool. It resembles a smaller noodle. When removed from stool it stays intact but has a goopy like texture and breaks up easily and stretches and breaks apart like goop. Is this a worm or is this mucus? When I saw it on my stool it had me convinced it was a worm of some sort but when I pulled it off it acted like mucus when probed and pulled apart. It separated like stringy mucus instead of like a noodle would but originally looked like an intact noodle. It wasn t flat but rather round in diameter. I haven t had anything like this in my stool previously but I have had mucus though it s never resembled a noodle or worm before and instead it resembled white/brown goopy clumps attached to hard stool. There s no white segments like rice in my stool either.