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should i get a colon screening?

I am 20/F in good health, no family history of colorectal cancer. Tonight, a few hours after passing an extremely large stool, I wiped away some bloody mucus. I never (never ever) have diarrhea or constipation and rarely have an upset stomach. Also, around my belly button, the right side of my stomach is firmer than the left side and it hurts a little when I press on it. My diet is healthy (fruit, vegetables, legumes) with the exception that I eat a lot of refined sugar. I smoke 10 to 15 cigarettes a day. Three weeks ago, I induced an abortion using pennyroyal tea and large doses of vitamin C. Before the abortion passed, I also experienced very light rectal bleeding for a few days, but it stopped afterwards. Until tonight. I have been extremely fatigued for the past three weeks as well. I wake up from 12 hours of sleep feeling like I got two. There are probably lots of things I should go see a doctor about, but I just want to know if I should get a colon screening of some kind or if I just need to stop eating sugar, get some iron in my diet and stop smoking.
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Great advice from Morecambe!  I would see you Gyno and a GI doctor.  Plus, you have got to quit smoking.  My husband has endured numerous surgeries, and very painful walking due to peripheral artery disease, which cigarette smoking contributed a lot to.  His surgeons told me that when you quit smoking, your lungs start healing themselves, but the damage to your cardiovascular system is forever!  I've seen so many people in the hospital becasue of smoking with serious diseases.  I have a sister-in-law who has Emphysema, and COPD from smoking, and is dying.  She is only in her early 50's. I also had a friend who died from Emphysema from smoking, it's a hideous painful disease, gasping for every breath.
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If you have any sort of rectal bleeding you should seek medical advice and, unless the diagnosis is definite - and the cause is "minor" (such as an anal fissure or haemorrhoids etc) - then I suggest that you request a colonoscopy.

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Morecambe
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