Worries about symptoms?

[kchal2]

A bit of a background this year has been very stressful for me as my parents haven suffered medical conditions and then COVID-19 and I’m generally a anxious person. I am a 26 year old female and I have lost a couple of kilo but that could be from anxiety plus I am now the weight I was before I had my son in August 2018. For the last 2 and a half months I have experienced intermittent constipation. I have still managed to go to the toilet every day however and it takes me only a couple of minutes however sometimes i feel I haven’t evacuated properly. Since then handful of times I have noticed small amounts of red blood on/in my stool. I do know I have Hemmeroids as I can physically see 3/4 and sometimes when I got to the bathroom I have a mild burning sensation and sometimes in between bowel movements my bum feels itchy. In conjunction with this I have experience dull upper right quadrant/right side pains on and off and a really loud grumbly belly and gassiness. My poo is sometimes a yellowy colour and sometimes brown.

I have sought medical advise and had a positive fecal occult test in one of the three samples which is being followed up by a colonoscopy this Thursday.

I’m so worried sick, what could this be? I can’t help but think the worse.

[FRreedman]

As you are having a colonoscopy in just, three days, I would suggest you wait until then, because you will get the results on the same day. The different colour in your BMs is quite simply yellow = constipated and dark brown is normal. The yellow motion has been in your intestines longer. The red blood is normally from hemorrhoids, and the only time to worry about small amounts of blood is it it is very dark, a!most black. Good luck and stay safe.