Hello all you good people. Just joined the forum. I am 61 and in fairly good health, do suffer with depression and anxiety and have done all my life. I function as best i can and have always worked so i guess i built my coping mechanisms up from an early age. What brought me to this forum is i haven’t been feeling my normal self for about a week now and came online to look for symptoms of bowel cancer. I never self diagnosis but as they say knowledge is power. Having seen the common symptoms online i have a gut feeling that something is not good. I am 61, slim build and walk and swim about 4 times a week. My toilet habit is completely out of sync, I feel like i want to go but nothing happens. I have had blood on the tissue for about 5 days now, had some very odd stomach/adominal pains which are very uncomfortable and when i wee it is uncomfortable too. I am unusually tired and very lethargic. I’m not overly anxious that it could be something serious, it could be constipation as i haven’t been for a few days. I did call my doctors at the start of the week and discreetly told the receptionist my symptoms and i have a gut feeling it could be more than constipation etc and she said call back in 4 weeks. I won’t comment on that but all the hard working staff on the national health have been let down by under funding etc. Is there any test that i can buy online that may point to more investigation being needed. I am adopted so i have no idea of my family history. Thank you for taking time to read my post warm regards Michael