Hello. I’m new here and was looking for some opinions. I’m 23, morbidly obese and have a pretty sedentary lifestyle. About three years ago I noticed my stool becoming more yellowish and loose. Me, being a huge procrastinator and someone who tends to ignore issues like these in hopes they’d go away on their own, didn’t go to the doctor for like a year.
I got a stool sample kit and then kept putting off doing it until next thing you know it’s been three total years since I’ve first had the symptoms, and I still haven’t done anything about it. My current symptoms are typically (but not always) loose stool, with an ALWAYS yellow or borderline orange color, it’s very oilly when it comes out, I can visually see a film of oil or something on the toilet water after a bowel movement. Ive seen it be very mucus-y as well. There was one incident where blood was present on the stool (just on the tips of the logs, very strange) but this was an anomoly as it hasn’t happened before or since. No bloating and no abdominal pain ever but i am often a bit gassey and find myself going diarrhea a few times a week. I’ve even had diarrhea happen 30 minutes after a more normal log looking bowel movement. I went on several diets during the span of this three year period for weeks at a time where I was eating exactly how I am supposed to (fulfilling macro nutrition goals and staying away from excess fat and carbs) but the same bowel movments persisted so it doesn’t seem to pertain to diet. I dont think I’ve had more than a handful of normal brown-colored looking stools since the beginning of this three year period. I am going to get a new stool home test kit from my doctor tomorrow and will be completing it and turning it in asap. But I’m pretty terrified of it being some form of colon cancer... especially with how long i waited to do something about it. Am I screwed?