Hi!

Just looking for a little advice as honestly, I'm getting into my own head and spiralling a little!

I'm a 35 year old female and for the last few weeks I've been having bleeding when wiping as well as blood in my stool, cramping and then the last few days I have been having nausea and heartburn and my appetite has dwindled. I've also lost quite abit of weight, I had a baby 4 months ago, didn't gain any weight at all despite him being 9lb11, and lost 2 stone after having him.

I went to to my GP on Wednesday and he examined me and found no evidence of any hemorrhoids etc, and ordered me to do 2 x stool samples and in the meantime he would do a referral for urgent investigation under the 2WW.

I took in the samples on Thursday, and yesterday I got a phonecall from the GP to say that while they were still awaiting the results of the test for blood, the 'bowel cancer test' had come back positive. It wasn't necessarily cancer, but given my history of polyps, family history there was a very high chance that it could be. He said if I hadn't heard regarding the colonoscopy by early next week to call and he would do everything his end to chase, and to call if I had any questions or needed any advice at all.

I later checked my portal and the only results available is the Q-Fit, of which the result is >400. I'm just a little confused as this is to purely check for blood and nothing else, and he said that hadn't yet come through, so what was the other test?

I had my bloods done, including FBC, as part of my diabetic check up a few weeks ago and these were all normal.

I do have a history of polyps. This started around 16 years ago at age 19, they were small benign polyps and were removed. 5 years ago I started having bleeding and pain, and I again had more polyps, however one was 9cm and an adenoma, this was removed 4 years ago, and even with that one there was no urgency - from the stool samples I waited 3 months for the initial colonoscopy and they were unable to remove it and I waited another 7 months for them to do so, so abit concerned with how fast this is moving this time?

My Dad also had stage 1 that was discovered after his bowel perforated - they removed it all at the time. He was 48.

I intend to call my GP back on Monday when open just for abit of clarity, and I know logically its likely to be polyps again but in the meantime I'm worrying and something just feels different this time

Apologies for this being so long and thank you in advance!

Emma