slightly red stool, freaking out about it

[I think all day]

I've been having slight bowel movement concerns for a little while now. For a while they were more green than brown and I was constantly panicking about it, but I got someone to google it for me (didn't want to freak out about webMD results) and I found out that green and brown are considered normal. I just pooped now and it was slightly red and I'm losing my mind now. It says it can be caused by food you ate but I didn't really eat anything red. What should I do? Someone told me they had bloody poops for a month and it went away on its own and that was reassuring, (i know reassurance isn't really good for health anxiety in the long run) but I'm really losing my mind over this. I'm on anxiety meds so I'm not COMPLETELY losing it with like panic attacks or anything but I'm horrified that I might have cancer, what should I do / have any of you experienced this in the past?

 

[Ari]

Most likely, it’s food-related. Think what you have consumed (food and beverages) in the past 3 days (beets, candy, tomatoes, sauces, etc.) It will pass in a few days.
Blood usually colours it black.
Stop inspecting your excrements and in a few days, everything will be back to boring brown.

 

[TX85]

If it's black, that's blood happening way earlier in your digestive tract. If it's red, and I mean you will probably see fluid pooling at the bottom of the toilet, that's blood later in your digestive tract. Both are reasons to go to the ER. But you've got red-tinted poop, which is very unlikely to be red because of blood. Indeed, try to let this particular fear go, if you can.