Hi, this is my first post on here, I'm 22 and I just wanted to put my symptoms out there in case someone's been going through something similar, as this has been invading my every thought for the past 4/5 weeks.

My symptoms are, I've had visible mucus in my stool for about 2 years, I've always ignored it as it's just been mucus by itself and nothing else.

Around 5 weeks ago I started getting MUCH more mucus in my stool, often more mucus than stool, and visible bright red blood in every stool since then. I've never had constipation in my life, yet 5 weeks ago it suddenly started, for days and days at a time, now I swing between diarrhoea and constipation. I've been feeling very weak and fatigued for a few weeks now, and I have been losing weight, however, I have been actively trying to lose weight with a caloric deficit. I've been seeing my stool come out as very thin and sometimes flat. So far no stomach cramps other than during diarrhoea.

I've been having lots of blood and stool tests, and my white blood cell (lymphocytes) count is high (15-16) and the stool test came back quite high for inflammation in my bowel.

I've got my colonoscopy in under 2 weeks, and my mum was diagnosed with Crohn's 2 years ago.

I've talked to my mum about my symptoms and hers and they seem to differ quite a lot, and I've been googling my symptoms a lot (I know I shouldn't) but at this moment everything seems to be pointing to colon cancer.

Has anyone had similar symptoms, and if so, what was the diagnosis?

This may be completely unrelated, but for the past week, my ab muscles have been hurting a lot??? Like I've done hundreds of sit-ups the day before, but I've been completely sedentary this past week (I used to do a lot of home workouts and sit-ups a few months ago, so it got to the point where I'd no longer get sore muscles, but I've stopped all exercising for a month now) it's very sudden and strange, but not sure if it's related or not.

Thanks so much for reading! x