So embarrassed. So bear with me.
For a few months, I've suffered rectal pain. It's quite an intense ache that I get after I go to the loo. Perhaps a spasm? I don't know. I haven't thought much of it until the last three weeks when I've had more symptoms: rectal pain (more of the same intense ache, plus a new burning acute pain) which sometimes wakes me up at night, 'vibrations' in my rectum (it's like someone stuck a mobile up there and keeps ringing it!), going to the loo several times a day on some days, or not at all for a few days.
The GP did an exam after which she said she couldn't see anything wrong, to take paracetamol, and come back in a few weeks if it doesn't get better. I said I didn't think it was going to disappear in a couple of weeks if it's been getting worse for several months. She then said she would book a blood test to check on my anaemia and wrote on the slip "Anal Pain" and "Anaemia". I did not mention anal pain, only rectal pain! I definitely know the difference between the two. I feel like I can't go back about this problem now as I feel like I wasn't taken seriously at all. I've *never* had problems like this before and I said that I think there's something more going on. What's worse is that all this happened in front of a male medical student and the GP kept on asking me about my depression which I just found absolutely mortifying (I presume now she may have been asking because anxiety may make bowel issues worse but, still, don't ask about it while I've got all my clothes off!).