I woke up this morning with my stomach feeling hard as if it was full of gas. I have a colostomy. I'm about 5 weeks post-surgery. Anyway, I'm standing there and have the urge to pass gas through my rectum. That scared me, and a minute later I felt a little bubble come out. I went to the bathroom, and when I wiped, there was a brownish blood on my toilet paper. It seeped out of me all morning but seems to have stopped now. Do I need to go in and get checked, or is this sometimes normal?

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