Is Acid Reflux a symptom of Bowel cancer?

[pulisa]

My advice would be to stop googling and to remember what your gastroenterologist said about YOU and YOUR symptoms. He reckons you have IBS.

[WorriedOlive]

Thanks.

Just trying not to completely spiral even further waiting 4 weeks for a colonoscopy. Have a lot of very scary scenarios of how it could play out in my head right now.

To top it off, I now need to go to the toilet constantly all day, my partner thinks it’s because I’m a nervous wreck.

[pulisa]

Do you think he is right?

Having to wait 4 weeks for a colonoscopy when you are a private patient shows there is no urgency. You can choose to imagine scary outcomes or you can be reassured because you haven't been booked in as a priority case.

[WorriedOlive]

Do you think he is right?

Having to wait 4 weeks for a colonoscopy when you are a private patient shows there is no urgency. You can choose to imagine scary outcomes or you can be reassured because you haven't been booked in as a priority case.

I hope he is right. It’s quite hard to believe stress can have such an impact on your gut.

I know you are right - the health anxiety part of me thinks that’s just due to my age, and there’s a never too young campaign for a reason!

[pulisa]

You'll always find a reason to justify your fears with HA and of course you ARE never too young to get any form of cancer. You HAVE seen a gastroenterologist who is unconcerned about your symptoms though but I realise that this won't satisfy your HA. Do you think you'll accept the results of the colonoscopy?

[WorriedOlive]

Okay so I’m back.. since I stopped eating red sauces I haven’t seen any more redness in my stool.. phew. HOWEVER.. this morning was the third time I have seen a slight pinky tinge to the toilet paper after wiping. (Like an organy brown with a slight pinky tinge to it in a few places, not everywhere)! And now I’m freaked out! The first 2 times I had consumed a berry squash the day before, thought it could be that, but haven’t drank that in a week and there it was this morning.

I have eaten reducrrent jelly and roasted sweet potato yesterday.. could that have that effect?

Also have this stabbing pain in my mid abdomen, high up under the ribs (about 4 fingers down from where a bra ends).. do your intestines go up that high? Or is this another issue?

This is exhausting. I have my first session with a councillor on Tuesday but in the meantime I’m so worried :(

[NoraB]

Okay so I’m back.. since I stopped eating red sauces I haven’t seen any more redness in my stool.. phew. HOWEVER.. this morning was the third time I have seen a slight pinky tinge to the toilet paper after wiping. (Like an organy brown with a slight pinky tinge to it in a few places, not everywhere)! And now I’m freaked out! The first 2 times I had consumed a berry squash the day before, thought it could be that, but haven’t drank that in a week and there it was this morning.

Why are you still scrutinising your poo?

I have eaten reducrrent jelly and roasted sweet potato yesterday.. could that have that effect?

Come on Olive...

This is exhausting. I have my first session with a councillor on Tuesday but in the meantime I’m so worried :(

Therapy can't come soon enough eh cocker?

Hope it does you some good. X

[WorriedOlive]

Okay so I’ve had one session so far and was feeling OK. Read a post on here recently referring to a lady who has posted here worried about her symptoms and sadly turned out to be BC. I hadn’t read the thread myself but I had been thinking about it and today I totally caved and found it and read it.

Now I’m so freaked out - negative thoughts going through my head, that what if my story goes like that. Everyone was telling her it was really unlikely to be anything bad (which I know it was unlikely) but it did happen!

My bowel movements have returned to just once (at most twice) in the morning since starting 10mg amitriptyline, is that a good sign? They are now solid.

They’ve also calmed down in terms of timing, it’s not at 5am anymore, in fact I am waking up at around 7:30 and going at about 8am, so I guess that’s not considered urgent anymore.

Any time I’ve seen red ‘blood’ in my stool, it has been around a grain of rice size. Although I have occasionally had pink on the paper like the other poster :(

My colonoscopy is next week and I just feel so badly about it.

PS. I do hope the poster I referred to is OK. She hasn’t written anything since 2018 although I can see from her profile she did log in this year.

[pulisa]

You must have really searched hard for her thread? Why be so determined to find someone who was unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with BC?

[Fishmanpa]

You must have really searched hard for her thread? Why be so determined to find someone who was unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with BC?

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