Hi all. I am new to this and need support as to how i navigate this. Yesterday I had a colonoscopy after having rectal bleeding for some months. There was a clear mass low down in the colon. Obviously for now that’s all I know. How do I navigate this? My anxiety is going through the roof. Before having to do the prep for the colonoscopy I had no other symptoms. After a sleepless night I have pains a cough bone pain and a scab up my nose that obviously I’ve self diagnosed as being related. I feel quite overwhelmed with everything. For content I lost my dad to pancreatic cancer just two years ago. He’d had symptoms but every test came back negative. Eventually he took himself to hospital because he felt so unwell where they finally diagnosed him and died 8 days later. I didn’t even get a proper conversation with a doctor. They didn’t wait for me to arrive at the hospital before telling my dad. I was told he had days / weeks left and turns out he only had days. The enormity of it all has really affected me. For reference he was in Ireland and not the U.K.
Haha!! Thank you for this info. Apparently my appointment was sent by letter but our postal service is not great so I just had a call yesterday and the lady said something about drinking a litre of water before and not eating but I can go to the loo. I’m so happy to get this scan then they can have a full picture of what’s going on and can tell me. This morning I woke up and thought this could be benign!! For the moment nobody can tell me any more so that’s what I’m going with today. Obviously I know it’s probably not but today I’m thinking of best case scenarios I read a wonderful message about someone’s mum on this forum who passed recently but lived with this for 15 years. All I could think was what an amazing woman she’s sadly gone but today she’s given me lots of hope. So I’m thinking about her today. 
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