text:  It was on and off for almost two weeks. And then at the end of two weeks, it was a lot of blood. And at that point, I was like, I made a mental note, like, OK, if this doesn't go away in two weeks, I'm going to go to the doctors. Alexa did eventually have to go to the doctor. Her primary care physician thought it was probably hemorrhoids, not a huge deal, but ordered a colonoscopy just in case.