Hello and thanks for your post,

I am sorry to hear about your concerns. Waiting to find out the cause of symptoms can be unsettling but try if you can not to think too far ahead.

A positive FIT test will tell your doctor that you have bleeding occurring somewhere in your gastrointestinal tract. This blood loss could be due to ulcers, polyps, inflammatory bowel disease, haemorrhoids (piles), swallowed blood from bleeding gums or nosebleeds, or it could be due to early bowel cancer. Anything that sticks out into the intestine, like a polyp or tumour, and is rubbed against by the faeces as it passes through, has the potential to bleed now and again. Often this small amount of blood is the first, and sometimes the only, symptom of early bowel cancer.

Hopefully you will hear soon when your colonoscopy is. Often it is the waiting for tests and results that can be so hard.

The majority of people who are referred for a colonoscopy don't have cancer but it is important that it is ruled out.

If at any stage you would like to ring and speak to one of the helpline nurses then you are welcome to give us a call.

Our number is Freephone 0808 800 4040 and the lines are open Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm.

All the best,

Catherine

thank you for getting back to me my colonoscopy is on the 1st of july very nervous i must admit keeping everything crossed