Hi Guys,
I apologise for my lack of knowledge and hope I do not offend anyone by asking my questions.
I have heard rumours things about stress potentialy contributing to IBD.
In December my son passed away at 3 weeks old. As you can imagine, the most anxious and stressful period of my life. I'm 35.
It all started with a really itchy and almost red raw bottom. I have had a hemmeroid for a long time but nothing huge. While wiping too much I noticed that I was starting to see tiny specs of fresh blood, I put this down to over wiping. When showing after wiping it was very sore when water made contact with my bottom.
I went to see a doctor who asked me to get a Q-Fit test just to "rule out" bowel cancer. I also went for some iron blood tests.
The Q-Fit test came back negative and my bloods came back normal.
Since then (4 weeks) I've noticed a lot more bowel movement, lots of mucus in my stool. Days that it's like an ice cream texture, some days thin stools, some days watery, just never normal.
It started to smell really bad and I could see mucus in all of my stools.
One evening I went to go toilet and thinking I needed to open my bowels, a mucus came out with some blood. Not fresh running blood, if anything some maroon and some new. I would say the resemblance of more clot like.
I then spoke to my doctor again who said it's likely IBS and said he wanted me to do a fecal calprotectin test but was pretty sure it wouldn't come back elevated.
My results came back at 1500 ug.
I have now been referred for an urgent gastro appointment.
On the phone a different doctor said to me "it's good we have found something and know it's not the worst scenario" then followed up to say "it will be either chrons or collitus"
I'm just looking for clarity here, has anyone else had similar?
I'm seriously worried that it's potentially cancer and I can't turn my brain off.
Thanks guys. Speedy recovery to all.