Hi, welcome to the forum. This must be such a difficult time for you. I'm so sorry you already had issues beforehand and now have this.

I know what it's like to see fresh blood when wiping and in poo and it feels so alarming. I remember before that, I was so stressed out about uni but once I saw the blood, suddenly nothing else mattered to me anymore. The first thing that came to my mind is bowel cancer.

The reassuring thing is that at our age, it is rare. I'd be freaking out so much if I was old. But it's not impossible to get it at a young age or it could be other things so best to get it checked and hopefully treated.

I hope your appointment goes well. Yes do mention you are worried about it being cancer. I didn't mention that I was worried. I used to just say my symptoms. I was on a referral waiting list for 4 months.

But 2 weeks ago, I had a telephone appointment and it was unexpectedly early while I was visiting a school I student taught at last year. That had already brought loads of emotions because I was living my best life last year.

I ended up breaking down while I was saying my symptoms and saying I'm so scared and that it's really hard putting up with symptoms. She referred me on the 2ww referral but reassured it is unlikely to be cancer at my age. I have a sigmoidoscopy appointment on Friday. 

Let me know how you got on if you would like to xx