I am so worried I have IBD or bowel cancer. I put another post on a while back about worries of pancreatic cancer but I've been told by a gastroenterologist that I definitely don't have it.

I became unwell in September 2017 with what seemed to be a massive panic attack. Something I'd not had before, but had extreme nausea, had to lay across the back seat of the car I was in, felt like I was going to pass out and had a very fast heart rate. However, unlike I panic attack it continued for months. I couldn't go to work and my life changed from that point.

A few months later in November 2017 I started to get dull aches under my ribs. Where I wasn't eating as much I had gone from going to the toilet once a day down to a few times a week. However, I had a faecal calprotectin test done and whilst it wasn't supposed to be over 50, mine came back at 350.

I was referred for an urgent colonoscopy which aside from some evidence of diverticular disease and an internal hemorrhoid, was normal. They saw there was an abnormality in my terminal ileum but did biopsies of that and multiple points around my colon and everything came back as normal.

Calprotectin tests several months later were down to around 19 or so.

However, another one came back at 134. This was after dull aches and pains along the underneath of my ribs but my GP wouldn't do a calprotectin for two weeks so for all I know it could have been even higher than that.

At the beginning of 2019 I had another colonoscopy which was also normal. I also had a capsule endoscopy which was normal apart from a slight erosion at the start of my duodenum. They did a gastroscopy as well to check but it had gone by the time they had done it. However, these tests were all done a while after the elevated calprotectin.

I'm so worried that I've been scoped when I may have been in remission. However apparently there was no evidence of scaring.

I go to the toilet (poo) every other day. A lot of the time it's a bit loose, but I also have times where it may be the runs and then the next time I go it's back to a normal very well formed stool. I've been told that this wouldn't happen with IBD but then I've read others have different stories.

The last few weeks I've had pains in my lower left, lower right, upper right, in the middle under my ribs. I also have woke a few times in the morning and needed to go which doesn't seem to fit with normal IBS, which is what I've been told.

I'm so worried in case something has been missed. A private gastroenterologist told me after the first colonoscopy that I definitely don't have IBD. Another gastroenterologist that I've been seeing privately has said the same thing.

I weighed 15st 10lbs before all this started in September 2017 and now weigh just over 10 stone. However, the dozens of GPS I've seen and psychologists and gastroenterologists put this down to worry and only eating 1,500-1,800 calories a day normally.

The last week or two where my stomach has been worse I've only been eating 400-800 calories a day. I just don't feel hungry and it makes me feel sick and have worse stomach pains.

My recent blood tests were all normal, including my inflammation markers but I've read lots of people online say there was a delay in their diagnosis because their inflammatory markers were normal.

My GP and the gastroenterologist don't want to do another calprotectin test as they said its so variable and a rise could be due to anything.

If I end up going to the toilet two days in a row instead of skipping one day like normal, I end up in a downward spiral.

I get mouth ulcers which I know are a symptom, but I also get told they get caused by stress and where my health anxiety is so bad are likely being caused by that.

If I have a loose stool, I panic. The other day I had a perfectly normal stool at about 4pm and then had the runs about an hour and a half later following bad stomach pains. I've not had this before.

I often have mucus and blood. But I'm told as the blood normally seems to be on the last part, that it is likely from a small tear or the internal hemorrhoid. I'm also told that mucus is very common in people with normal IBS like I've been told I have.

I just don't know who to trust and so worried it's not going to be discovered until more damage has been done.