Is blood in toilet three days in a row hemorrhoids, or worse?

[Grognak]

A few things I feel compelled to mention first are that I'm 30, male, and am a heavy drinker. I already know from looking that I have external hemorrhoids, but I don't think they've ever bothered me. I would get blood in the toilet maybe once every two months, sometimes it would be just one movement, other times it would be 2 or rarely 3. But, for the last four days, the first two days I had blood in the toilet, then the third day nothing, then again today I found some. It's bright red as far as I can tell, it isn't mixed in with the stool and it's not a tiny bit but it's not a lot either. Suffice to say, I was alarmed and heavily reduced my drinking in hopes of it going away but since I saw some again just now I have to say something. Horribly terrified of doctors (especially their bills, I can barely keep the roof on me after being laid off) and pray it's something I can just kinda work out instead of going to one. So that's why I'm here, hope someone can help. Feel free to ask for any other information if I missed it. v_v

[Life360_Dave]

Hi yes what your experiencing are all most certainly from hemms. Short of surgery we have them for life. They heal then open then heal then open. Controlling them would need a change in your diet or take some stool softeners.

[Grognak]

Hi Life360_Dave thank you for the response! This is going on day 5 of this nonsense, I got rid of all my booze and I'm not touching any more for a while. I didn't think hemms could be irritated for so long!

Anyway I was wondering, do you have any good reference material on what I should start including and changing my diet to? Would stool softener be worth it if I don't have any constipation or trouble with the bowel movements? Again, thank you for the response.