The other day the doctors talked a little bit about hemorrhoids and Dr. Sears said that he had had problems with them.  I thought that I had a problem with them also until three years ago.  I went to a new gynocologist because my old one stopped taking my insurance.  He asked if I had problems with hemorrhoids and I said yes.  He did an exam and told me that it wasn't hemorrhoids it was a tumor.  Within days, I was at a surgeron's office to get a biopsy which turned out positive for rectal cancer.  (Farrah Fawcett calls it anal cancer)  Within another week I was doing chemo and radiation.  (This was Sept. 2006)  In Jan. 2007 I had surgery which ended up with a colostomy and a hysterectomy.  Them I had to do chemo again.  My life has changed so much.  I wish that I had my "hemorrhoids" checked earlier...it may have turned out better.  Both of my sisters had trouble with hemorrhoids so I had talked to them about it instead of a doctor.  Please, if anyone has problems with hemorrhoids.......please get it checked out.  Don't be embarassed about it.  We all have a rectum (well, not me anymore!) so it's not anything a doctor hasn't seen before.  Please let my ignorance help you.

GET IT CHECKED!