I'm mainly posting here as during the last 6 weeks I've ended up looking at a lot of stories where people with same symptoms as myself land on threads with titles like this where the original poster didn't conclude. Or that the end result was bad. Cancer diagnosis after clear bloods etc. 

Oh, also I have terrible health anxiety. 

I'm 37 (so young for cancer, but colerectal cancer is increasing a lot in under 40s)

September 2022:

So I had right side lower abdominal pain for a month in September. It was constant. Felt very much like area of the ascending colon. First week or two just thought it was a stomach bug. But after 3-4 weeks I began to worry more. Reading all the Internet stories and people with same. Eventually got rid of it with a dose of burst dose laxido and a CT scan showing just fecal Build up. The laxido cleared out some old fecal material. And over the next week, with my head calmed I gradually got back to normal. All blood tests were always fine. 

I paid for a private colonoscopy during this time which came back clear. 

6 months later (march 2023)

The same pain returned. But worse. Started off mild but over the next 4 weeks. Got worse and worse. 

I had all sorts of stage symptoms.

-Dry heaving after meals,

- Terrible Nausea 

- Cold legs after eating (warm on the surface, but cold feeling).

- Absolute lack of appetite (I lost half a stone in 4 weeks)

- Bruises were far worse from blood tests. One was 6 inches.

-floating stool (still does now)

-Slightly yellow stool

-feeling of acid in mouth (reflux) 

But through it all (still hanging around today) I had this right side abdominal pain. 

My kind went into over drive. Had the scans missed something? Was it liver? Pancreas? Gall bladder?

Doctors dismmised it as anxiety and IBS. But IBS is elimination of everything else. Not something you can just diagnose. I suspect because I was young, bloods were fine it was put down to this. 

Having read the horror stories of under 40s being fobbed off with "ibs" only to later discover cancer I pushed the doctors hard. I went again and again and wouldn't accept it was entirely anxiety (although I know and accept GI and anxiety are highly correlated)

It took 3 weeks and going sometimes 3 times a week to get refered. 

I was off work for 14 days during this period. Partly anxiety partly pain. 

But once refered I saw this lovely surgeon who said he thought it was anxiety/functional but took my concerns seriously. 

Suddenly things moved quickly. I had a letter through the post for 

-Mri liver 

-Endoscopy 

-CT pneumocolon 

-I also had a calprotectin test

They all landed in same week (last week) 

Although I was still very anxious I was satisfied I would now get resolution. 

Still waiting on MRI. 

-CT all clear. Lymph nodes, liver, colon, gall bladder. All fine. 

-Endoscopy all clear. Still waiting on biopsy which will take Weeks. 

-Calprotectin normal 

Docotrs and, more importantly, my mind are able to put this down to something functional or an intolerance that my anxiety makes worse and I get stuck in a loop. 

So to sum up, even though my symptoms pointed to all sorts of sinister end results in this case it isn't. 

I do not regret pushing for tests, as its your own health, and nothing is more important. But it was a fight to get that refferal being so young. 

I'm hoping this post comes up in searches for worried people. And that with persevering you can get the nhs to help. At best it will be something like myself. But if its bad early diagnosis is critical. I was not going to be one of the stories "I had abdominal pain for months and it turned out to be cancer". 

Just hope this helps some people who, like myself, cannot help searching the Web for stories and seeing mostly bad news. 

My personal next steps are to work on diet testing for an Intolerance, to get help for my anxiety and to make the most of time. I am getting older! 

Hope this helps