Been having a few worrying symptoms for quite a while now

I'm a 17 year old girl and about 1 to 1 and a half years ago I started getting constipated frequently. I would also find mucus in my stools and it would start to get worse as blood was also appearing. I went to the doctors and she told me it should be fine and it might just be constipation so she gave me cosmacol. It started to work pretty well so I stopped taking them after a few weeks cause the taste is absolutely vile and for about maybe half a year I was going regularly and properly. Then I kept becoming constipated again and once again there was always blood and mucus in my stools. But it's started getting much worse nowadays as I'm not able to go properly for days and there's quite a bit of blood in the toilet and when I wipe. It's gotten to the point where I don't even need to have a bowel movement for there to be blood (most of the time it's just gas when I go toilet and I find blood and mucus splatters + I find them when I wipe) My stomach even made weird gurgling noises yesterday which were so bad that I couldn't go to college (I also had cramps which has also happened today). I just don't know what to do and it's been making me really worried but I know I'm going to have to book a doctors appointment again which is making me even more worried.

 

  • Hello 182736

    I'm sorry to hear that you're dealing with some ongoing health problems. There could be many reasons for the symptoms you've described but it's important to make an appointment to speak with your GP so that they can help improve things and work towards getting you a proper diagnosis. 

    I hope things settle soon. 

    Best wishes, 
    Jenn
    Cancer Chat moderator