Question: Back in late July I was mildly anemic according to my yearly blood test. My dr ordered a blood occult test. I took his test for three days and I also did an ez detect home test. His test was the fecal smear and the home test was using the tissue in the toilet. I was also to get my bloods redone in a month. During that time they stopped accepting my insurance and I had to find a new dr. The home test came back negative and the retest with my new dr showed no anemia i also had bloods done two weeks ago and everything was good again.

My original dr never called me with the occult test and I forgot about it since my last two bloods were good and the home test was negative, but I was printing off my labs from my old dr and noticed they put the results with my labs and the occult test was positive. I called their office and talked to his nurse she said there was no reason to follow up with a dr since my last two bloods were good and had the negative home test. The week i tested for anemia I had five days of intense dirrhea and stomach cramps, and the following week I did the blood occult test.

This was almost 9 mos ago I have no odd symptoms with my stomach or stool no weight loss, actually gained 10-12 pounds. Is this something I should bring up to my new dr? Or am I overreacting?

So there is no chance I could still be loosing blood? If I was to continue to lose blood for the past nine months I assume it would get worse and I would notice it? My concern is a polyp that would be bleeding slowly, is there any chance of that happening for nine months and it not be visible to me?