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What does it mean if your lower abdomen is tender and sore and you see some blood in your poop?

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Dr. Arthur Heller answered

Specializes in Gastroenterology

Means u need to CMD: Don't know you. May simply be constipation and bleeding from hemorrhoids, or...Could be more serious things like inflammatory bowel disease, infection, poor blood flow, tumors, cancer. Need to see a doc, get examined.

Dr Cattano and another doctor agreed

Answered 9/15/2013

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