Hi on the 5th April I had the results back from my FIT test and it was 24.2, my doctor told me whilst I was driving in the car that it has come back high and that I had bowel cancer!!! I said I'm going on holiday in 10 days time and I was told to cancel the holiday I wouldn't be able to go, I was told I would be put in the 2 w cancer path way and would be contacted for a colonoscopy, I remember saying would I be ok, the reply was well if they have caught it early enough you can have a operation but it's a horrible operation!! I just couldn't believe what I was hearing I got out of the car and burst into tears then rang my husband to say what the doctor had told me!!

Now 1 week and a day I got a call from the hospital to book me in for the colonoscopy, which I wouldn't be able to have it till the 9th May, it seemed ages waiting and the anxiety that I suffered was awful every ache and pain I said to my self it must be the cancer!!  A few days before the scan you have to go on a kind of diet, mash eggs cheese and white bread was mainly what I could eat, 24 hours before my scan I couldnt eat at all. I then had to start the plenvu bowl  cleaning drink, which to be honest was horrible I put ice cubes in it which helped a lot and had a hard orange lolly to suck on in between sips, you eventually get in down!! Then the bowels start to work by the end of both drinks my bum felt like it was on fire  it was so sore I used sudocream and that helped a lot.

I'm now at the hospital waiting to have my scan I couldn't praise them enough the doctors nurses were all so kind, I met my consultant before the procedure and his words were that fit test is not very high I am 99% sure you will not have cancer it will be polyps or haemorrhoids but let's go and see, I opted for sedation but I could see the screen where you can see your bowels the whole time it just made me feel relaxed and I couldn't feel any pain at all, it was over and the doctor said yes what I thought it's haemorrhoids!! I was over the moon !

So if this sounds  like your case please do not worry, we will be complaining to the doctors as I went through 5 weeks of what if, and lots of worry all for nothing. 

good luck and lots of love to you xxxxx