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Never had the warm pain but the rectal discharge started about day 14. More mucus than anything else. Goes away a few weeks after completion. That said, when I need a bathroom, I need it now to this day! Finished radiation Oct 2025. You can expect increasing lack of energy going forward as well. That also improves a few weeks after completion. Hang in there. You got this.

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@mjp0512 & @dpayton I've not had mucus, rather, just plain poop. (And maybe there's some mucus along with the poop, I've not examined it closely enough. I do not expect to. :>)) Not much, but it does leave a streak on my underpants. I need to soak, scrape it off, and use cold-water washing before sending it off to the laundry basket. After aquablation, I was wearing shields in my underpants if I didn't make it to the toilet in time. Now I've got the shields placed a bit lower to get any leakage.

And thank you both for your comments. Of the many things that were presented to me before this started, this one was never mentioned.

@mjp0512 You may want to start a food diary. I found that when I eat or consume a lot of dairy foods in a day, my fecal urgency gets a lot worse the following day. However, my gastroenterologist says, "Everybody is different!"