Scared I have bowel/colon cancer

I've been trying to keep calm but these past few days have been hell.

This all started around November last year. I was getting stomach ache under my left ribs. Went to doctors a few times to have blood tests and stool tests and they all came back clear. Had more tests done and found I had h.pylori at one point and was treated with antibiotics and a proton pump inhibitor. This seemed to help somewhat but my stomach aches came back when off of them. Was retested for it and I was negative.

PPI's seemed to help until my pain came back whilst on them, I was then sent to a gastro specialist in August who sent me for an endoscopy and ultrasound 3 weeks ago. I got my results back this week where the ultrasound said that I have 3 polyps on my gallbladder and my endoscopy showed a small hernia in my stomach, but these shouldn't be causing me pain.

What's worrying is that over the last 2 weeks, I've began getting pain in the right side of my abdomen and upper back too, as well as finding small traces of mucus in my stools when going to the loo.

My gastro doc has now requested a colonoscopy since the endoscopy results appear to not reveal enough.

I've read that bowel and colon cancer can be slow growing and so because I've been having these pains for nearly a year and my pain has not got worse, I'm terrified they've not found it in time :(

It could also just be IBS

My specialist who I saw said IBS is just a name for when they can't find what's going on.

I've got my colonoscopy tomorrow and am terrified of what they're going to find. Just waiting to start the prep now :(

Please try not to worry james I know it’s easier said than done. How old are you? I had a colonoscopy a short while ago and I stressed myself out so much. The chances are it is just ibs, the symptoms do seem to vary from person to person with ibs.

Just turned 36 this month.

Currently onto the second dose of the prep. Yuck.

Morning everyone, I hope you're all ok during this current climate. Looking for some advice as I'm currently freaking out a little.

Woke up this morning and went to the loo as I usually do. But upon wiping I had a lot of blood on the tissue. I've had the odd spot before when doing it, but never this much.

I'm trying to stay calm, but this has really got me worried - especially as with the current health crisis in the world, I wont be able to see a doctor right now and don't want to stop someone else seeing them if they're ill.

I had an endoscopy done in September and a colonoscopy done in the end of November, that both came back clear, but this event has really got me scared. :(

Second day and still getting quite a bit of blood when I wipe :(