Janeeey
03-07-12, 20:41
Just wondered if I could ask for some advise.
Following a bag stomach bug around 5 / 6 weeks ago my bowels (sorry TMI) haven't really got back to normal - although of course I now can't really remember what normal is!
I have always had changeable bowels and average 2 to often much more a day and never worried about it. I have also had blood for years - which has been a worry but feel fairly sure its a fissure.
Since the bug though my bowels have been looser - they have gotten a bit better and in fact for a few days last week they were what i would call normal and today normalish but I am now so obsessed i keep looking at them and of course I never looked before! My husband and parents are also telling me they are not back to normal either - of course my entirely rationale part of my brain doesn't even consider for a second that they might have BC - I know they don't! I am 37 so I also know its very unlikely and I have had virtually no blood for these 6 weeks because of softer BM's so in a way that has made me feel better re fissure!
Today I went to the GP as i felt I need to do this as my HA has gotten much better recently in fact loads better and I fear I will return to when I was really ill with it a year or so ago if I don't seek reassurance!
He was a nice GP but never seen him before - I told him my concerns without my usual tears and demands but also that I was anxious. His response was interesting in that he said people with HA simply transfer their anxiety onto the GP - in turn the GP then feels forced to send them for many tests for fear of being sued! he didn't say this horribly but did make me think.
He then said he wanted me to do the occult test (he said that was a reasonable request) and would if I insisted send me for colonoscopy - but that there are risks with it (I won't say what he said but seem rather dramatic!) and as such if these tests were clear his advice was to forget it as he sees no reason for concern. I do appreciate a GP can't win - if he doesn't send for tests then we worry they are missing something and if he does then they must think we are ill - so hard!
I have written this all down and not really sure what my question is now - though thought GP view may interest people! Would appreciate any reassurance / thoughts re BM issues though?
Also any thoughts re the occult test - I am nervous and part of me just doesn't want to do it. But I am trying to cling onto my CBT trg and that I either have or have not got cancer - the tests won't change that but if I have finding out now is a good thing so win:win - so hard to believe this of course!
:)
Following a bag stomach bug around 5 / 6 weeks ago my bowels (sorry TMI) haven't really got back to normal - although of course I now can't really remember what normal is!
I have always had changeable bowels and average 2 to often much more a day and never worried about it. I have also had blood for years - which has been a worry but feel fairly sure its a fissure.
Since the bug though my bowels have been looser - they have gotten a bit better and in fact for a few days last week they were what i would call normal and today normalish but I am now so obsessed i keep looking at them and of course I never looked before! My husband and parents are also telling me they are not back to normal either - of course my entirely rationale part of my brain doesn't even consider for a second that they might have BC - I know they don't! I am 37 so I also know its very unlikely and I have had virtually no blood for these 6 weeks because of softer BM's so in a way that has made me feel better re fissure!
Today I went to the GP as i felt I need to do this as my HA has gotten much better recently in fact loads better and I fear I will return to when I was really ill with it a year or so ago if I don't seek reassurance!
He was a nice GP but never seen him before - I told him my concerns without my usual tears and demands but also that I was anxious. His response was interesting in that he said people with HA simply transfer their anxiety onto the GP - in turn the GP then feels forced to send them for many tests for fear of being sued! he didn't say this horribly but did make me think.
He then said he wanted me to do the occult test (he said that was a reasonable request) and would if I insisted send me for colonoscopy - but that there are risks with it (I won't say what he said but seem rather dramatic!) and as such if these tests were clear his advice was to forget it as he sees no reason for concern. I do appreciate a GP can't win - if he doesn't send for tests then we worry they are missing something and if he does then they must think we are ill - so hard!
I have written this all down and not really sure what my question is now - though thought GP view may interest people! Would appreciate any reassurance / thoughts re BM issues though?
Also any thoughts re the occult test - I am nervous and part of me just doesn't want to do it. But I am trying to cling onto my CBT trg and that I either have or have not got cancer - the tests won't change that but if I have finding out now is a good thing so win:win - so hard to believe this of course!
:)