groove in bowel movement

[momto2]

Hi everyone! Has anyone out there ever experienced a groove in their stool. I started noticing this several months ago but just wrote it off as kind of odd. However I have had a few episodes of it since but not with every bowel movement. I don't know a nice way to describe it except it is like an indentation the entire length of the BM. Should I be concerned? I had a sigmoidoscopy about 4 yrs ago(i'm 42y/o). It was fine. Any advice would be great.

[suntower]

Hey I had that! I could never describe it well to docs but it was a groove, as you said...sort of like if you push play-dough through a ring with a little notch poking out. I wondered about it for years and eventually ended up in the proctologist's office for hemorrhoids and he found a little polyp there. He removed it, and I haven't seen the groove since. I don't miss it, either. Turns out the polyp was an early tubular adenoma, which is not cancerous but I guess has ~10% chance of becoming cancerous in a few years, so I'm glad it's gone. I also had a clean colonoscopy. The fact that it was there (at the junction of rectum/anus) also means that I, as a 37-yr old, now am supposed to get colonoscopies every 3 years since its presence means I'm more likely to develop others anywhere in my colon. It's also possilble that my hemorrhoids could have been causing the groove but I doubt it. So yeah, it could be caused by any number of things but it might be worth getting it checked just to be sure...besides, the checkup is a WHOLE LOT OF FUN.

[13candycaness]

I am also having the same, I had a soft, mucus stool and inside the stool i could see a flat piece of hard stool with a groove along it. I dont know what it is and i am only 13!!!

[momto2]

I never did follow up because it happened only 2 or 3 times. The past couple of months have been perfectly normal. I can only assume maybe it was an inflamed hemorrhoid. Normally I probably would get it checked out, but I have been to my GI doc so much this past year over another issue that I don't feel he really takes me serious anymore.
I did call about it and he wasn't concerned however he did offer to do a colonoscopy if I wanted to. I chose to just let it go.

[6025]

Did you ever find an answer to your questionabout groove in bowel movement?  I am having the same thing.
Was it hemmoroids?  This has just begun and I would like some advice on
what to do...if anything

[Rose_M]

I know this thread is 11 years old, but did you figure out that cause of the groove.

[CalGal]

It could be due to hemorrhoids, but when something like this happens it really should be checked out by a doc because that same groove could be due to something more problematic than 'just hemorrhoids.'