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"When I would bend over, sometimes I would have a dull ache in my bottom right portion of my abdomen," he explained in more detail in a recently posted TikTok video."It wasn't a…stabbing pain or anything like that, but more of a dull ache when you would bend over." "Kind of semi-occasionally—like a couple times a week—after I would go to the bathroom, I would notice a tiny bit of red blood on the toilet paper," he explains in his TikTok post."And I honestly always just kind of brushed it off and put it off for way too long—like months—but that was my biggest red flag for sure," adding that he was also going to the bathroom"way more often than I should have…a couple times a day.
One indicator you may be able to notice right away is a sudden change in bowel habits. Salhab explains that this means"new-onset diarrhea and new-onset constipation—especially if you're straining now more than usual" or if your stools are narrow or thinner than usual. He says this could be a sign of a polyp or precancer in the colon blocking the intestines.