Hello everyone, 

Like a lot of others I've found my way here after endless hours and days of researching on Google only to come face to face with the big c word and convince myself I have some form of it.

About a month ago I had intense cramping pain in my abdomen that lasted for a few hours and vanished, occurred for 2 minutes the following day and stopped.

2 days later I develop a pain in my stomach which eventually moves to the right side of my abdomen below my ribs, affecting both the front and back. The pain is still present only very faintly now, it gives me the odd jab every now and again but prior to this is was constant pain and pressure. It ventured a little to the lower front of my abdomen, and my doctor took a urine sample hoping it would be a bladder or kidney infection. Sadly it was neither. The first time I brought this up with my doctor she said it sounds like IBS, but when the symptoms changed to severe pains in my side after I removed food from my diet that could make IBS worse, she asked me to come in and the urine tests were done. 

Since then the pain has changed to stomach pains, pains on both side of my abdomen, then bladder pressure and UTI pains, period like cramping, and is now nothing but a constant and incredibly uncomfortable pressure on the left of my tailbone. 

Since May last year I woke regularly with intense stomach pains and a dire need to go to the toilet. This came and went and hasn't happened as often these days. I just assumed this was due to stress as I was awaiting my uni results (and stressed myself out due to wanting a first so desperately and making myself ill over it). Toilet visits haven't exactly always been pleasant, it's either loose, normal, or now results in constipation. There has never been any evident blood, but they asked for a fecal sample of which I believe the results are back. My doctor also took a swab whilst performing a smear test, which went out to be tested a few days before. And also, since about March my heart has been doing strange palpations, it's happened 3 or 4 times now and lasts anywhere between a day to nearly 2 weeks. But of course I forgot to tell my doctor about this. I've not lost any weight, no bloating, and my appetite is as normal as ever... maybe feeling hungrier than I was a few months back but that could just be greed. 

My results came back last Wednesday but a doctor only looked at them yesterday, and I received a call saying they have booked a phone appointment first thing on Monday morning. 

I am a severe sufferer of anxiety and depression, so I have been thinking the worst. My mindset has been so negative for years that I always believed I'd develop some sort of cancer and that would be the end of me. So, naturally, I am absolutely petrified. Since the tests were sent away my symptoms have changed to this severe tail bone discomfort, and I am so stressed about waiting until Monday when this pain has become so sickeningly uncomfortable in just 2 days. I'm terrified they are going to give me bad news. My family has a history of bowel issues on both sides, so I've stupidly convinced myself I have bowel cancer. 

Has anyone else been through someone similar? I really don't understand why my symptoms keep changing, it almost feels like a new illness each day?

I'm worried about my age not being taken seriously, I'm 27, because obviously it's such a young age and my doctors aren't the best. I once had a severe rib pain and the owner of the doctors surgery (he has a bad rep) told me I'd grow out of it. 10 years later I was still suffering. I saw that same doctor for an incredibly swollen ankle (which turned out to be fractured) and he actually huffed, pinched the bridge of his nose and miserably said 'I suppose you want physio...', and saw him for really bad skin that I've had since I was 9 and he said 'you seem to be covering it okay-ish so what's the problem?'. Luckily I've been seeing another doctor who has promised to figure out what is going on (I'm very comfortable with her and we get on very well), but I'm speaking to another doctor on Monday so of course the 'they won't take you seriously' fears make the rounds. I hear she is a lovely doctor but... when you fear the worst you over think everything. Especially as most of the doctors haven't been helpful for minor things, but now something could be seriously wrong I just hope they do more. 

Thanks in advance, and hope you are all well. 

Bea