Bowel anxieties

Hi all,

Often on here looking and it’s a great help.

I’m 37 female and have 4 young children.

For a few months now I’ve been worried about my bowels. I had lots of anxiety around the issue some years ago and had a colonoscopy 8 years ago because of it.. all clear.

I started feeling some pressure around my back passage and not long after that caught a sickness bug from my son About month and a half after that I caught another virus but this time awful constant diarrhoea for a few days once the water was pink as well as feeling awful with a fever and flu like symptoms. Ever since I’ve got over that I’ve had this pressure normally particularly bad when I wee! It feels like I need to pass wind or poo as I wee but I know i don’t and normally the feeling goes once I finish.

I decided on Monday I couldn’t take the worry Any more and went to see my doctor who examined me.. to my horror she said I can feel a lump and would like to refer you.. set in panic!
Due to not being able to wait I paid and saw a private bowel consultant.. he did a good examination, went through things with me and said he is not concerned and there no lump just firm poo up there. He spent a long time talking to me and suggested anti anxiety medicine would be more beneficial than anything else and although he couldn’t say 109% because he said you never can he was extremely confident there was no need to anything further to be done.

After checking all the bloods I had cane back ok which they did I have cancelled the nhs referral. Now having had time to think I’m going through all the what ifs and doubting myself. He said I was constipated despite the fact I go to the toilet like clockwork every morning and never strain really which I why I’m now thinking is he right x thanks for reading x

You don't say what is worrying you specifically?

The very uncomfortable pressure and feeling of there being wind in my rectum when there is none and the niggling thought that the specialist missed something on his examination the gp felt...