For the last three weeks I have been having symptoms that I have convinced myself are from colon cancer. I don’t feel that I am an overly paranoid person about my health but I can’t shake the feeling something is wrong. I am female, 29, no family history of colon cancer. Logically I know it’s probably something else so why am I terrified? 

I am having 10 - 12 bowel movements a day, but I never feel like my bowels are empty. I have alternating diarrhea and constipation, narrower than normal stools, occasional blood. I am abnormally tired, my arms and legs feel tired and heavy all the time. I feel exhausted after the smallest task. 

I made a post here three years ago thinking I had colon cancer then, and I had half the symptoms I have now. I got put on a waiting list to figure it out but they never contacted me and eventually my symptoms stopped so I left it alone. But I’m worried I’ve got cancer and let it grow all these years. 

I am waiting on the results of a FIT test. Time feels like it is moving so slowly. I don’t want it to be cancer but the pain of not knowing is really getting to me. I feel crazy.