I'm doing okay thank you. I've noticed I'm getting pain from eating but I don't know if it's just from being anxious.

I'm not sure what the stool sample is for. I think it's to check my faecal calprotectin as it was normal in March the first time I did it so might have changed now.

Friday feels so long away - I hate waiting aswell. I think in the meantime you should make a note of all your symptoms and worries to tell the nurse from the colonoscopy team.

Thank you, I hope everything goes okay for you aswell. It's good we're both on the 2ww pathway considering we're both young. I heard young people usually get fobbed off.

Also how did your phone call go with the doctor? 

Yeah stress definitely doesn't help with symptoms. I had a banging headache while I was waiting for the call and now the headache's gone.

I'm not sure if I had that test. When my GP called about my results back in April, she said it so simply, 'your blood tests were all normal but you know the test that looks for blood (FIT test), that came positive, but that's nothing surprising as we already knew there was blood'.

Afterwards I requested my medical records (hypochondriac geek alert) and found out my FIT test was positive at 400 and that my stool sample test for faecal caprotectin (I think it looks for inflammation) was normal.

That's good that you're not going to miss out anything important. I've had times when I have and then regretted it.

I didn't get a call so I messaged the medical centre asking if I'm supposed to be expecting a call. The receptionist called saying that I wasn't supposed to have a telephone appointment and that it was just them sending a notification to the doctor to send off my stool sample. I felt a bit embarrassed thinking the receptionist probably thinks I was expecting a call about my results. 

Yes I'm 23. I'm glad my GP hasn't mentioned anything about my age until she told me about the 2ww, but even then she just said 'you are young, so it would be unlikely for the cause of your symptoms to be something serious like cancer..' (me thinking she was about to fob me off) '.. but I don't want you to be losing weight this quickly and you've been having a lot of symptoms and been waiting for a referral since April, so there's something called a 2 week wait pathway I could refer you on'.

I was so relieved. It felt like such a huge weight lifted off my head as I was expecting to wait another 10 weeks since I was told by the hospital at the beginning that the waiting list is 25 weeks. 

Hi [@char1995]‍ have you had your appointment yet? Hoping it goes okay. 

I found out I have an appointment next Friday at 8:30am. I'm guessing it's a colonoscopy as they're going to be sending laxatives through the post. I feel impatient waiting to get further info.

I sent a message to my GP asking for the results of the stool sample and usually if the results normal, they send a message back saying it's normal. But this time they called and said it's nothing to worry about (exactly what they said when my FIT test came positive) and they said I'm already on the 2ww so they'll review me after that.

I don't mind if my stool sample's abnormal. I just want to know the result. I was more scared that something would be wrong and not picked up.

Hello [@amelia98]‍ how is everything going did you end up having your appointment? I still haven't had mine yet as they didn't have any appoiment Available mines this Thursday coming I'm so scared :( 

Did you find out if your fit test came back positive? I hope your keeping well ️

Hi @char1995 Oh no, it must be stressful having to wait that long. In my experience, the specialist was really kind and spoke gently. I hope your specialist will be like this.

Thank you. It came negative at 5ug/g so only some blood was found which is quite a surprise as I thought I wasn't passing blood anymore. Back in April, it was 400ug/g so that's good it's decreased a lot. Now I see blood so I'm guessing it would come positive now.

I've had a sigmoidoscopy now and found out I have haemorrhoids which is so relieving for me. I'm shocked as my GP didn't find haemorrhoids and my only symptoms of haemorrhoids were bright red blood and incontinence. They took biopsies so hopefully, those will be normal.

I hope you are also well and find out you have something that's not serious.

[@amelia98]‍ it really is so horrible I've been waiting near to the 3 week mark and I just can't stop panicking :( 

oh that's great news that not that much blood was found when I have my telephone call the lady told me mine was 47

that's great news I'm so glad everything had come back fine for you apart from the Haemorrhoids I know they can be a pain as I know I currently have them and no treatment seems to be working :/ 

I hope so to I only have 3 days to wait but I'm just so anxious that there's something wrong :( 

It sounds horrible that you have had to wait that long. When did your symptoms start if you don't mind me asking?

I hope the blood isn't caused by something serious. My doctor didn't mention to me when my FIT test was at 400 (I found out from my medical records) so I'm guessing she didn't think it mattered. She just told me it came positive but it just looks for blood so I already knew that. She then said the reason she referred me is to find where the bleeding is coming from.

It's sad no treatment seems to be working, I hope you find out what is causing your symptoms so that they can be treated.

Hopefully, the 3 days go quickly. Are you studying/at work and have had to take time off for this? Maybe use this time for yourself and do things you enjoy like watching movies. I know it is hard to think about other things. I'm here if you want to talk. 

Yeah it really isn't nice waiting so long when you have health anxiety we'll I've had on a off ibs symptoms for quite sometime so that's when it al first started but for the past couple of years I have also have a few bouts of haemorrhoids but I also know there common when your pregnant or given birth and I have 3 little ones and my youngest is 6 months old, but after I had her a few months later I noticed some blood in my stool so o got checked out by my gp and they confirmed the haemorrhoids which I did get treatment for but they didn't seem to go and I started to just panic more about my bowels and just worry that there was something wrong with me and my doctor said rather then do a colonoscopy there do a fit test and I honestly didn't think I would come back positive but I couldn't see anymore blood in my stool so when it did I was so shocked but I end up going back to the gp because I had seem more blood in my stool and it felt like the haemorrhoids had gotten worse and they confirmed they were still there but just with an outside examination not internal so that's where it all started from and all my go said to me was if a fit test comes back positive they just instantly have to Refer you.

I hope so to it's just hard not to think the worse and no I'm not currently studying or working at the moment are you lovely? And did they said how long it would take for your biopsy? 
 

thank you so much that means a lot x