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.
