Hello

I can't  offer any advice unfortunately but just wanted you to know your not on your own. I too have just been referred today for an urgent colonoscopy due to similar symptoms as yours. I am absolutely terrified, I am 37 and have two young children and the thought of leaving them is truely heartbreaking.  I can't be positive as I just cry all the time, I just have a gut feeling about what they are going to find. I'm really sorry your feeling like this too and I wish you all the luck x

Bless you...I hope all goes well for you and I understand how your feeling...this gut feeling just wont go away it is truly horrible but it is positive that they are checking things out quite quickly and hopefully we both will be worrying about nothing....still very scarey though i must admit xx

I feel both your pain. It's so scary isn't it. I'm 36 and have 3 kids. Horrendous health anxiety which takes my mind to dark, scary places. I can barely function and can't sleep at all. How the heck do you stay sane waiting on tests/results. I literally can't do it and feel like an awful mum! 
 

I have had loose stools and constant heartburn for 2 months. Blood in my stools a week ago. I got bloods done and left stool samples in this week. Terrified the doctor is going to ring with bad results. I really hate this and I'm sorry you both are going through the same x

It's just awful isn't it, I'm so sorry your experiencing this too. I'm hoping the wait time isn't too long as I just feel physically sick and then I wonder if that is actually part of my symptoms too!  Such a horrible place to be so I do really feel for you both.  The worst thing you can do is Google it as all my signs point to that one thing we dread the most but somehow I can't stop myself as I'm just desperate for some kind of reassurance xx

I google constantly aswell! I literally can't stop myself no matter how hard I try! I tell myself it's to reassure me of other things it could be but I always end up reading things that terrify the life out of me! I feel sick too and I'm weighing myself constantly to make sure I don't have a loss of weight. If the scales say I've lost anything I go into a panic! Even though it could be the stress and lack of eating! Glad I have people here to talk to but wouldn't wish this worry on anyone either. I look at my kids and just want to cry. It's so hard to hide the fact I'm falling apart from them :cry:

Hi I really feel for you ..

it a terrible place to be .. I'm in the same situation

i had positive Qfit test and calprotection 

my symptoms are horrendous  the pain and cramps are 

unbearable .bloating and diarrhoea no normal stools at all 

I've been booked in next week for CTScan Abdomen 

and Colonscopy.. 

i hope you get your date soon and all will be ok

i know it's very difficult to stay positive and not look at Google 

which makes us worse ..

its the waiting game ., Your symptoms could be other 

medical conditions which you will only know when they do the 

Colonscopy .

I feel for you and hope all

will ge ok ... x

I had bowel changes weight loss and left sided pain, my urgent colonoscopy was within two weeks they found complex ovarian cysts and referred me to gynaecology oncology. My surgery and multiple  biopsies were benign. I too had the thoughts of what if it's cancerous as I'm over 65. The waiting is hard try to keep busy easier said than done . 
I hope you have a good outcome from your colonoscopy and an appointment asap.  I had a ct scan and injection that makes you feel as if you have peed yourself, it was painless. The bowel prep is not the best. 
take care 

Susie 

Just checking how everyone is feeling today? xx

Feeling so so today. Been in pain allday but had to work too. Just nervous for my appointment

Is it back pain you have? Work can be somewhat of a slight distraction can't it x