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Posted 1/1/2020 3:19 PM (GMT 0)
Good morning everyone, and happy new year! I am so happy to put 2019 behind me because it was a year of terrible terrible health anxiety. I am 38 but I feel 68 and all these anxiety has aged me, I can see the difference sad. Symptoms come and go and last a couple of days but this one has lasted for over a month now. I usually have a bowel movement almost every day but up until a month ago (maybe more) I have been constipated or when I do go I have noticed thin stool. I am so scared of Colon cancer, it is scaring the daylights out of me. I havent changed my eating habits either. I had a colonoscopy five years ago for loose stools but they told me it was IBS. But now its constipation, could this be from anxiety or something more? I also noticed I started getting hemmarriods sad please help!
Posted 1/1/2020 10:21 PM (GMT 0)
LuvMyDad, what you wrote isn't too much information because the health anxiety (hypochondria) that you have is a serious form of mental illness.

I'm sorry to read that 2019 was a difficult year for you. I hope 2020 will be much better.
Posted 1/4/2020 6:45 PM (GMT 0)
Hi LMD!!!

Lots of things can contribute to changes in bowel movement! Does Colon Cancer run in the family? The fact that you had a colonoscopy and it was clear 5 years ago really speaks volumes!! If you’re seriously concerned always check with your doctor but unless there’s a reason you would be at risk for colon cancer, I would let your anxious mind rest a little bit!!
Posted 1/4/2020 9:46 PM (GMT 0)
Park!!!! How are you? I miss u! How are the kids? I remember we were pregnant together smile colon cancer does not run in my family but with health anxiety and all of course my main fear is colon cancer. It’s been a bit better since my post but still isn’t the same I’m trying to fix my diet a bit. How is life with 2? Any thoughts of having a third? smile
Posted 1/4/2020 9:56 PM (GMT 0)
Hi!!!! Mine are 3.5 and 7 now! How about you?! It’s crazy and anxiety causing so I hate it and love it and I’m sure you get it!! LOL!! Truly since I have to get colonoscopies every 3-5 years, I think you are good if you had a screen 5 years ago, it came back clear and you have no family history!! I do know how you feel though. Anytime I have a small change I wish my next screen is sooner than it is but I remind myself how slow growing colon cancer is!! My youngest just had the stomach flu (less than 48 hours ago) so I am still living in a state of total anxiety and had my first panic attack in ages today! Ugh! I do NOT do puke! I’ve missed this board and will be checking in more often as I love it’s support, so update me on how you are!!!
Posted 1/5/2020 11:37 AM (GMT 0)
I hope your littlest is feeling better! The flu is something very scary (I am sorry you had da panic attack) I hope you are feeling better too!!! My Daughter is 6 and my son is 3.5, and yes they do keep me very very busy!! Haha I hope you are right about the colon cancer, actually my last colonoscopy was May of 2014 so 5.5 years ago sad(( I usually get diarrhea when anxiety hits hard (which it had in October/November) so I don’t know why I am so constipated and it’s making me so worried because it’s a “change.” What tops it off this morning on Facebook there was a post about a young girl who barely had any symptoms and ended up having last stage bowel cancer and died. Omg just writing this is making me
More anxious. Ughhh I don’t know!!!
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