Hello, my HA has been very good as I haven’t had to come to this forum for over a year now, but as always one little thing has creeped up and caused me to spiral. I’ve always had some bowel issues, looking at my past threads on here has reminded me of this, with symptoms like small hard to pass stool and feeling like i’m not finished after a movement. But for some reason I’m convinced it’s been more regular the last month or so, especially with my period, which of course is normal, but last month i had one horrible passing of diarrhea that made me feel faint! I usually have a bowel movement two or three times a day, which has always been the case, and they vary between being normal to being quite soft or being very hard to pass, causing me to strain only for one or two very small drops to come out, and then not feeling like i’ve finished. It is this unfinished feeling that worries me, as it is apparently a warning sign of bowel cancer. I’m only 19 and used to eat terribly but it’s been a lot better recently and i’ve been taking multivitamins, which has led to more regular and normal stool, but i still deal with the extremes on either end, either varying within one day or over the week. My mum suffers from ibs and says she was diagnosed at uni, like i am now, i describes all my symptoms to her and she said they are the exact same as hers, so obviously it makes sense that i also have ibs, my younger brother has also suffered from bowel problems for almost his whole life. I know if i were to see a GP (which probably won’t be for at least months due to covid) they will say the same thing, because bowel cancer is extremely rare in people my age, but I still hear about young people dying of bowel cancer because they were misdiagnosed with ibs which makes me worry the same will happen to me. I’m hoping someone can slap some sense into me and reassure me that it is just ibs, or tell me honestly if i should be seeing a doctor or not. thanks :-)
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Originally Posted by Fishmanpa
