Cherries, it always happens to me and also beets!!

Even though it could be diet related, I wouldn't risk it.

A quick ER or Urgent Care Clinic visit and they can confirm if it's blood or not.

I'm a little more on the cautious side, having suffered two near death internal bleeds. Any hint of what could be blood should be checked out and I would not wait until Monday.

My second bleed just felt like a sore stomach and even though I vomited up a tablespoon or so of blood, thought it would just clear up.

Wrong. Ended up in the ICU and another four days in a regular room. Needed fluids and eventually three units of blood.

Symptoms can start out very small and quickly progress to very bad.

Don't mean to sound like a hypochondriac, getting every little thing looked at, but if it's possible bleeding, don't wait.

Any time you see black stool, it is time to check it out. That means there is blood coming from somewhere up into the bowel. A bright red blood would indicate a bleeding that can be due to food that is too rough and doesn't totally digest if you know what I mean. That blood would be coming farther down the colon tract.

If you are bleeding somewhere up inside, you want to find out about it as you can be irritating an ulceration with the wrong kinds of food or you could have something else brewing.

Later on in the day when the stool begins changing back to a more normal color, it would indicate that the bowel/colon are more full of food waste and may be masking the bleeding that you see in the early morning....eliminating it without much of a tell tale "red or black" coloration but maybe still there nonetheless.

Could be totally nothing to worry about but it could be something that, if caught early can be eliminated by non-invasive means. If you have colon polyps, (also known as out-pouchings) in the bowel tract, one could be empacted by waste or could be large enough to tear from roughage in food and that would cause a bleed. If you have colon polyps, they can band them just like varicees in the throat. Testing for cancerous cells is usually done when they do the actual banding. But, once banded, the polyp dries up and is eliminated and even if it is cancerous or pre-cancerous, the cancer is usually taken care of at that point providing you haven't left it go so long that the cancer has had a chance to spread. Early detection is the key here..............
I hope this helps...........I took care of my Dad who had many recurring colon polyps and learned a lot so when I had to start regular colonoscopes. I had a good working knowledge of what goes on and why. Now, I am checked every couple of years for both varicees and colon polyps since one of the colon polyps tested positive for cancerous cells.............No problems since I had the polyps banded..............Hugs and prayers..........CarolLentz

thanks guys I wasn't gonna go but now I've been feeling a lil dizzy anyways tmrws my birthday would hate to have to spend it in the
ER but it is what it is... will keep you guys posted..

Do you take pepto bismol?

@Sammy, no on the pepto, I was eating dark dark ruby red cherries by the pound, also was into alot of blueberry yogurt yum I stopped them both 2 days ago..

I hope your birthday is GREAT and that you get good news. Maybe it was just the cherries. I sure hope so.
Blood in the stool is scary. Been there. digesting your own blood can also raise your ammonia level, so maybe the dizziness?
Glad you're getting it checked. xo Karen:)