Re: Terrified I have Chrones or bowel cancer
You're caught in a spiral here, your health anxiety is looking for something to latch onto. You've gone from worrying about Chron's and colitis, Bowel cancer, then back to inflammatory disease, then right on to ovarian cancer. This is a telltale symptom of health anxiety, I've had to put up with it every day for just over a year and this is exactly how my mind puts things together as well.
Your stomach issues are very real, let me just get that out there. You're not imagining it. But allow me to put your mind at ease by saying that cancer wouldn't just come and go, it doesn't just go away on its own and there are a million other reasons for your symptoms so there's that.
Ulcerative colitis, sure it's a possibility but even if it does turn out to be some form of inflammatory disease, it's not the end of the world. Yes it's inconvenient and there's no doubt that it will cause you problems, but it can be managed. That's what's important to note here, it can be managed. There's also the very real chance that you have bleeding piles and you just so happened to have diarrhea caused by IBS, anxiety or some other benign condition that caused them to get irritated and bleed.
Most of my family has some form of bowel defect. Me and my parents have irritable bowel and hemorrhoids. My grandparents have Ulcerative colitis. My aunt has Chron's disease. Bowel defects are actually quite common.
Your health anxiety is making out that all these conditions are in some way life threatening or are going to ruin your life. You might not even have any of these conditions at all and even if you did, they all tend to go through periods of remission and flare up and CAN be managed by medication or other treatments.
Stress makes my IBS worse and even someone with normal bowels will have toilet issues when they have anxiety. The same thing is probably happening here, your anxiety is making the problem worse, it's a bit of a cycle but i'm certain once you get a proper diagnosis and the stress starts to ease off, you will start to feel better.
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