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Having pain while engaged in normal bodily funstions is not normal. Pain may be due to hemeriod that are inflamed , fistulas , fissures, tumors, or trauma of perverted behaviors.

Dr. Alvin Stein reviewed this

62 year experience in Pain Management

How long it usually lasts:

Short-term (lasts days to weeks)

How common it is:

Common

Body locations

Buttock, Lower abdomen

Is Symptom of

Anal fissure
Condition
Constipation in children
Condition
Crohn's disease
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Proctitis
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Bowel obstruction
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