- Pain or discomfort while passing stool.
- Less than three bowel movements per week.
- Stools that are hard or like small clay balls.
- Hard or firm belly that is tender to the touch.
- Loss of appetite.
- Bright red streak of blood in stool (caused from tearing of anal walls when passing harder stools)
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