Hi

 how long do you have to wait for your results? In my case a CT or ultrasound is usually 2 weeks ish.

The waiting is the worst isn't it, you read into everything wrongly too and expect the worst outcome. I've been there believe me many times.

Please try not to look things up on the internet though, I am the worst for this but although there are many reasons for a symptom, almost everything you search for has a cancer answer and then we hold onto that and can't even remember all the other possibilities for the symptom.

Hope you get sorted soon and it's good news.

Hi there,

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I should get at least the Ultrasound and CT scan results by Thursday of this week. I'm not sure on the biopsies from the endoscopy. I know it's not long to wait but it seems like forever when you are having awful symptoms and are imagining all sorts!

You have mentioned you have been there and have had lots of scans etc I do hope whatever you are going through you are doing ok.

Unfortunately I have already googled everything . In my head I am convinced I already have the worst outcome so I thought i would prepare myself for the diagnosis but  now I realise firstly that nothing can prepare you and I am wasting my time and energy when I should be making the most of each moment so I really am just trying to take each day and not think about tomorrow and today compared to how I have been feeling I do feel quite a bit better so I will try to concentrate on that.

Thank you once again for taking the time to reply, it really does help to chat on here and as I say I do hope whatever is is you are going through you are doing ok. X

Hi there,

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I should get at least the Ultrasound and CT scan results by Thursday of this week. I'm not sure on the biopsies from the endoscopy. I know it's not long to wait but it seems like forever when you are having awful symptoms and are imagining all sorts!

You have mentioned you have been there and have had lots of scans etc I do hope whatever you are going through you are doing ok.

Unfortunately I have already googled everything . In my head I am convinced I already have the worst outcome so I thought i would prepare myself for the diagnosis but  now I realise firstly that nothing can prepare you and I am wasting my time and energy when I should be making the most of each moment so I really am just trying to take each day and not think about tomorrow and today compared to how I have been feeling I do feel quite a bit better so I will try to concentrate on that.

Thank you once again for taking the time to reply, it really does help to chat on here and as I say I do hope whatever is is you are going through you are doing ok. X

I had a colonoscopy almost 3 weeks ago, a routine one after having bowel cancer twice in the last 5 years. They took a biopsy and I still haven't got the result although I was told everything looked ok. I'm thinking by now if there was anything they would have contacted me.

My anxiety is awful since my first diagnosis, I calm down and then get a mystery ache or pain and I am as bad as ever again.

Both my specialist nurses and my GP both have said don't look things up on the internet, everyone is different and reading things just make you worse.

Hi ,

I am so sorry for what you have been through and can completely understand your anxiety. I have had a lot of unexplained symptoms over the years and convinced myself each time that that I've got a brain tumour or am having a heart attack or something else. 

I too, would have thought if there was anything found on your biopsy you would have been contacted by now, and it does sound as though they are monitoring you closely. 

You are right, everyone is different and I'm not going to look anything else up on the internet. Far better to get comfort by chatting to lovely people on this forum!

Thank you once again for chatting to me , it really has helped and I hope you manage to get to relax and have your mind put to rest soon x