Hi all, my name is Evie i’m 20 years old.
From 2022 i have had some amounts of blood in my stools and whenever i wipe, also the sudden urge to use the toilet after each meal and not feeling like i was empty, i just ignored these symptoms as i thought it was just stress, however it started to worsen i had pains in my tummy nearly all the time and either constipated for a week or severe diarrhoea. I went to my gp about this and she gave me a rectal exam and said it was just piles/hemmorids and to use some creams
I took her advice and used creams etc but the symptoms only seems to worsen and the pains in my stomach became really bad but i just passed it off as ibs.
just over a week ago i went to the gp for an unrelated issue and she seemed shocked i still had the symptoms and gave me a calprotein test and a Q-fit test.
Yesterday she rang me to say that my Q-fit was highly abnormal and very high levels of blood in my stool and asked me to come in urgently, she gave me a rectal exams and said there is a 3-4cm lump in my rectum.
She has referred me for a colonoscopy as urgent but she said there’s a severe backlog in my trust and could be waiting up to 6 weeks.
Was anyone else’s symptoms like this i just don’t seem to be getting much advice elsewhere, hope this is okay to ask
Thanks for reading
Evie
