Hi, would I be able to have advice please.
I'm 24 years old this month and my bowel issues started maybe two years ago. They would come and go. I went to my doctors and they gave me a flexible sigmoidoscopy last march but could only go to the distal transverse as i'm too small apparantly. Everything was normal to the point of insertion. My symptoms went so stupidly I left it at that, a few bouts of dodgy bowels in the mean time but nothing major. Fast forward to now and my bowel issues are really annoying. The other day i went 5 times, very urgently to the point where i had to rush to the toilet. Then the next day I was constipated and today still am and have had a lot of gas. Its never liquid its just very loose stool. I'm basically petrified as unfortunately i do seem to have a lot of the symptoms of bowel cancer.
My main symptoms: loose stool/alternating solid stool with yellow mucus. Constant gas all day long. Indigestion in the centre of my stomach. Occasional cramps. Blood on toilet paper twice in two years and I saw the tiniest amount mixed in my mucus the other day.
I'm under investigation with my GP, my bloods are all fine however I am severely deficient in vitamin d, it dropped from 24 in December to 17 this month. I'm just waiting on a gastro appointment which will hopefully be soon. Out of anxiety I must admit I just today paid for a private ultrasound of my upper abdomen for £100. The nurse said all appeared fine however she was looking at my liver inbetween my ribs if that makes sense but she said from her view everything looked absolutely fine. So my next hope is a colonoscopy.
I forgot to say, an examination of my back passage by a doctor found specks of blood.
What are the actual chances of a 24 year old having bowel/colon cancer. Surely so small? Or am I in denial. My doctor said it could be IBD but he would expect me to be in pain and i'm really not.
Thank you