Hi all,

I think I just need a safe space to voice all my concerns. So about 5 weeks ago I started having really bad diarrhea and constant mucus drainage from my backside. I brushed this off as a side affect of the antibiotics I was taking then, but fast forward to now I am still having the same symptoms, except they are just worsening!! Since last Friday, I've been much more constipated, on Saturday I noticed blood in my poo and I'm still having a lot of mucus drainage. I also feel like I constantly need to poo, when I do go to the toilet, I feel like I am not able to fully empty my bowels. I've been having trouble passing gas too, and when sometimes I do have the odd solid poo it is very thin. I've been to the doctors about it, the doctor examined my backside and couldn't feel any lumps, she also examined my abdomen and said everything feels normal. I've had my bloods taken and a stool test and they also came back normal. She has referred me for an urgent colonoscopy just to rule out anything serious, but I am so so scared of it being bowel cancer. My doctor said that it is extremely unlikely that it is bowel cancer, she said she is more concerned about Crohn's and colitis. I'm so scared that it is cancer to the point I am not able to do anything during my days apart from lay down and stress about it and cry. It's really just consuming me I just don't know what to do anymore. 

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