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Thin stools for a few years, should I worry?
JZ781
They are flat, but width is about the width of a ruler. I beieve I have hemorrhoids, can they cause thin/flat stool? Sometimes I occasionally have thicker/more normal sized stools. Could this be cancer? Not likely?
27yo white male in the US
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