I've been to embarrassed to go to my doc about this, but... about 8 months ago, I started noticing a little blood after I went to the bathroom. Not a lot, so I didn't worry. It stopped for a while. Then about 4 months ago, I had a period of 2 weeks where my stool was completely black, like charcoal. I was too embarrassed to say anything. Right before that happened, I had to have a blood transfusion because my blood levels were so low. The doc urged me to get checked up, but again, I didn't.
Now the bleeding has started again, but en masse. Sometimes there is so much dark red blood that I cannot even see the bottom of the toilet bowl. It's got to the point that when I wipe, there are large clots of blood.
I'm a 21yr old female. I, for whatever reason, have not had a period in 7 months or so.
Should I just ignore it? Can I? I really don't know how I could bring it up with my doc. I'm really...shy...about such stuff. But there's just SO much blood now, it freaks me out. It doesn't hurt, but it is a bit scary.