Hello. I've had my doctor find internal hemorrhoids around a year ago, and it's been on and off ever since. After a bout of the common cold and blowing my nose and coughing a lot the last few days, today I noticed blood in my stool. It was bright red and didn't seem to be the same as previous hemorrhoid occurrences in that it seemed to be part of my stool and not making the toilet water red. I'm concerned this is different than a sign of my hemorrhoids coming back. Wondering if I should just not worry about it. The stool was solid, and looks like it had a long line of red in it, essentially. Apologies for the awkwardness of this questions and the detail - but I find it better to just be open about it!