AnxietyMom5
24-02-18, 21:24
Quick intro. I'm Lindsay. I'm 30 years old. I was a very active member on anxiety zone until it was closed down. I have 5 kids and I stay home full time. I have suffered from extreme health anxiety and cancer phobia since early childhood. I am currently taking 10mg of Prozac for my HA and 20mg of Adderall XR for my ADHD. I have been doing extremely well until last Sunday. Here is where my post about my current anxiety begins ---
In 2013 I started to notice some blood streaks on my stools. This sent me into a major panic and I was 100% convinced I had colon cancer. I put it off for over a year due to fear. In early 2014 I saw a gastro who suggested colonoscopy. It took me a while but I'm late April 2014 I finally had the colonoscopy. The cope found a small polyp in my sigmoid colon. The rest of the scope was normal.
The polyp was removed and sent to pathology. I was called a few days later letting me know my colon polyp pathology came back as a benign hyperplastic polyp with no malignant potential. No follow up scopes needed for 10 years.
I was never easy with the fact I had a colon polyp just shy of 27 years old.
Anyways last Sunday I woke up in the morning and felt the urge to have a BM. All that came out was gas and mucous. No stool. This made me super panicked. A couple hours later I had a regular BM with no mucous at all. This helped my anxiety and I went about my day. Fast forward to Wednesday when the same thing happened. Passed gas and mucous only. There was only yellow mucous on the toilet paper and no stool. I lost it and went to my GP. I was finishing up Penicillin and he thought the mucous was most likely related to a bacteria imblance from antibiotics. He also told me some mucous isn't really anything to stress about. I told him I was still uneasy since I had a polyp removed for years ago. He offered me a FIT test which is a stool sample that checks for hidden blood and is considered a colon cancer screening. I of course did it. It requires 2 samples. I dropped the samples off Thursday and they were negative. I also haven't had anymore mucous.
The issue is I'm still really worried I could have colon cancer. I have been so upset because I have been doing so well with my HA. I have been going to the gym and eating healthy. I have lost 25 pounds since November and have felt amazing! I was so happy and now I'm back into an anxiety spiral.
Do you guys think that a negative FIT is a good thing and I should just let this go? I am so worried the FIT might have missed something. The mucous episodes have been so worried. I am so upset.
In 2013 I started to notice some blood streaks on my stools. This sent me into a major panic and I was 100% convinced I had colon cancer. I put it off for over a year due to fear. In early 2014 I saw a gastro who suggested colonoscopy. It took me a while but I'm late April 2014 I finally had the colonoscopy. The cope found a small polyp in my sigmoid colon. The rest of the scope was normal.
The polyp was removed and sent to pathology. I was called a few days later letting me know my colon polyp pathology came back as a benign hyperplastic polyp with no malignant potential. No follow up scopes needed for 10 years.
I was never easy with the fact I had a colon polyp just shy of 27 years old.
Anyways last Sunday I woke up in the morning and felt the urge to have a BM. All that came out was gas and mucous. No stool. This made me super panicked. A couple hours later I had a regular BM with no mucous at all. This helped my anxiety and I went about my day. Fast forward to Wednesday when the same thing happened. Passed gas and mucous only. There was only yellow mucous on the toilet paper and no stool. I lost it and went to my GP. I was finishing up Penicillin and he thought the mucous was most likely related to a bacteria imblance from antibiotics. He also told me some mucous isn't really anything to stress about. I told him I was still uneasy since I had a polyp removed for years ago. He offered me a FIT test which is a stool sample that checks for hidden blood and is considered a colon cancer screening. I of course did it. It requires 2 samples. I dropped the samples off Thursday and they were negative. I also haven't had anymore mucous.
The issue is I'm still really worried I could have colon cancer. I have been so upset because I have been doing so well with my HA. I have been going to the gym and eating healthy. I have lost 25 pounds since November and have felt amazing! I was so happy and now I'm back into an anxiety spiral.
Do you guys think that a negative FIT is a good thing and I should just let this go? I am so worried the FIT might have missed something. The mucous episodes have been so worried. I am so upset.