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‘When it first happened, I was 28 and only three months’ pregnant with my first child, so to sit on the loo and discover I was bleeding gave me an enormous fright. At first I thought I was having a miscarriage – my heart stopped beating and I was shaking. After a minute or so, I realized it wasn’t because of the baby, but was coming from behind. I was relieved, of course, that it wasn’t a miscarriage, but still shocked to see blood, even when I guessed it was probably just something simple like haemorrhoids.

I have since experienced a lot of bleeding, as I’ve had problems with haemorrhoids through all four of my pregnancies. And you know what? It still unnerves me, because even though I know it won’t kill me, I also know it’s not “normal”.’

Gill, 42, a mother-of-four, who has been troubled by haemorrhoids for many years