Thank you for all your replies. I didn’t realise acid reflux could be caused by anxiety so that’s made me feel a little better as my anxiety levels are very high at the moment.

Also reassuring to hear about your stories of those that have survived BC, I’ve always thought of it as one of those cancers that’s pretty much a death sentence. Although my fear is always that if I don’t thoroughly inspect all my symptoms I wouldn’t catch it until a very late stage.

This morning my BM had a tiny piece which had the red colour and was full of peppers (sorry tmi!!) and the rest was a normal colour, which i presume was from yesterday’s food as I made sure not to eat red food yesterday. Would you say that’s adequate to confirm it was the tomato sauce causing it? I want to stop looking but also don’t want to miss something important that needs to be reported.