Great idea! I'll post my experience too for anyone that wants to read a positive outcome too!

I did a FIT test following some spotting on wiping and my father's history of having bowel cancer under 50 years old (im 41). Mine came back positive, 124 which I thought was a really high reading so naturally my mind went into overdrive! I had no other real symptoms, my bowels have always been a bit hit and miss so it was difficult to determine if I'd had a change in bowel habits etc.

I was put on the urgent 2ww pathway, which was infact nearly 7 weeks and I can say they were THE most stress inducing 7 weeks of my entire life. During that time I'd imagined every scenario there was to imagine and the thought of leaving my kids sometimes made me feel physically sick. My thought process was, because of my Dad's history it was too much of a coincidence for it to be anything trivial so convinced myself 100% it was cancer. I think I drove my poor husband up the wall with my hysteria!!

Anyway, the colonoscopy date came. The bowel prep was hideous but manageable. The endoscopist actually wrote on my report that my bowel prep was excellent, I felt rather proud of that if I'm honest! I chose to have the sedation and would always choose to have sedation as it was not uncomfortable in the slightest. The procedure was all done in 20 mins or so and I was wheeled through to recovery for a cup of tea and a biscuit.

Turns out I have internal hemorrhoids which was the cause of the bleeding and I had 3 large polyps removed. I've not had the biopsy results yet but if they are pre cancerous then I'll thank my lucky stars for the bleeding hemorrhoids!

Best of luck to whoever is reading this. Take a big deep breath and be kind to yourself.

Hi both,

I can't tell you how helpful it is reading these messages. I am in the category of waiting for a colonoscopy appointment after a positive FIT test. The anxiety is horrendous, but when I read things like this it makes such a difference.

Thank you. SO much. x

I am in a similar situation . I'm 31 and received an abnormal fit test and I'll have my colonoscopy within two days. I have symptoms like cramps, abdominal pain, and gases. My doctor sent me mebevrine in the meantime and my symptoms completely disappeared, except for the pain in my belly.

two days ago I had a panic attack with a pain in my chest and I had to go to emergencies. I have found these forums extremely useful in managing the anxiety. 
 

thank you

I've reposted in the Introduce yourself part.

I'm in the middle of prepping for a colonoscopy that, I'm so afraid, is going to confirm my fears that I may have colon cancer.  Had tried and asked for help and referral from my GP for months, having bled and been in pain so long.  Now I'm about to finally get that colonoscopy, but the prep for this one is very different and involves something called Plenvu, about which I've read nothing but terrible things.

Anyway, this all belonged elsewhere and so I reposted.

Just asking and hoping for anyone's experience of Plenvu prep, if they had it, how they got,thru it.

And I'm just so scared of what's to come.  Sorry, need answers, advice about Plenvu...anything.  But I think this was the wrong place to ask and I'm sorry.  I'm just so scared about all of it...and what they might find. {:-{

Help...

I did! i have! And not so long after having posted here - I reposted completely under the Introduce yourself "category," with the whole story.  But thank you, though. {:-|. My post, like so, so many others, has fallen off the radar.  I wish this chat was divided into forums for each Topic, tbh.  I've seen so many posts from people who really need help - far more than I at this point - their post and pleas for help are just disappearing further and further down, as so many separate new posts are constantly being made, until it seems no one ever sees those posts made before.

I'm new, it's not my place to say, but I do wish there were separate forums for the Topics - it might help a lot of people whose posts are being pushed down and thus, possibly lost, never seen or replied to.

Sorry to all for posting in this thread.  Sorry for posting.