Hi cmackia2020. In the later part of November I became constipated--no movement for 5 days. This was very unusual for me. I took stool softners and Miralax until the BM's started. They were black and bloody. It was at the start of the Thanksgiving 4-day holiday and not doctor or primeds were open till the following Monday. I went right away and they sent me directly to an emergency room. Bad luck continued. No GI doctor comes to that ER nor were there any beds available. I was there for 25 hrs and they found a hospital and a GI doctor an hour and a half away. When I did get a EGD and colonoscopy 4 days later there were no sites identified for the bleeding. They did say I have a sliding hernia. I was not familiar with that but upon reading about it, it says it can call hemorrhage. Now I'm anemic. I've been taking Pantoprazole Sod DR 40 mg daily since 2019. Reading your post makes me wonder if bleeding is something that may happen again. No further tests have been scheduled. My regular GI Doc said she was getting the records from the hospital and would go from there but no work from her. Guess I'll need to contact the office to see what can be done now.
Thanks and pray your situation gets better. Faye