Late September 2017 I had somthing hard in my anus turned out to be a 3 kilo solid t**d and it was wanting to come out I weighed myself before and after any way I knew it was too hard and called health direct as it was a friday night of course. They suggested a stool softner which I had just happened to buy a box the day before after going to the Doctor whom refused to check my anus he he was going on holidays the next day. So to stop it coming I had to pick of the end of it to give me an extra 24 hours for the stool softner to help then when it came it hurt like hell I now know what women go through giving birth. Well I tore my bowl and I have been bleeding on and off for 8 months now I think it was the cheap aldi crumpets that I was snacking on that caused it. Somtimes now I pass a large stool and I start bleeding again somtimes the bleeding will stop after the one motion other times it will bleed for weeks each time I go. I have found licorice helps softens the stools and also biscuits also soften the stools as well but they are fattening. I'm eating well and not excessively. This on top of my hemroid problems from years of driving machinery and sitting after injuring my spine doesn't help somtimes it scares the c**p out of me when I bust a hemroid and spray the bowl red I am very confident its not somthing worse as I had a colinospathy a few years back and aparently only 10% of people tested have cancer I was told. I am telling you this so you don't sit around if you can avoid it and don't eat many crumpets at a time and biscuits and licorice help along with small meal portions. Also when you go to the loo sit there and just breathe in and out to get your bowl working you have no need to force it just deep breathes will push it out. Cheers.