Worried about bowel symptoms

I find myself here again, 6 months ago I had a breast cancer scare but all thankfully turned out ok. Now I am having tests to rule out bowel cancer. I'm trying very hard not to end up down the Googling rabbit hole but struggling. I'm terrified of having to have another endoscopy as I had one years ago that didn't go well. Equally I dread colonoscopy. If my faecal tests come back ok will that be the end of the tests? I'm 47 and never had issues with my stomach before 

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  • I should have put symptoms in! Change of bowel habit from pretty much constipated all my life to a mix of that but now lots of loose stools. Wind wind wind, I'm full of gas, you can hear my stomach all night which is keeping me awake it's horrible. The wind is definitely the worse, I can feel it trapped trying to come up after I've eaten - indigestion and then it moves to the other end later on. Starting the tests today and terrified 

  • Hi I had similar symptoms last year all of a sudden I had very loose stools /Diarrhea whenever I ate something it went straight through it was horrendous and it lasted for at least 3 weeks I kept thinking it will stop as I didn't want to go to Docs but it didn't stop ,in the end I went had blood tests and fit test all abnormal so had a colonoscopy 2 weeks later all they found was Diverticulitis a Polyp and hemoroids but nothing nasty so I would say its possibly more likely to be something else other than something serious .

  • Thanks Jenny this does offer some comfort. Im

    So scared of the test results that it's good to hear someone have not very good results but all ok at the end. Did you suffer with huge amounts of gas? I'm constantly uncomfortable. Zero sleep last night. How are you now? X

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