I have booked a doctor's appointment.
Just commenting to add that a persistent change in bowel habit can also be a symptom of ovarian cancer, so any women experiencing this should ask...
Why do you think that?
I know. I will see the doctor. But I feel like doctors are so unreliable that I won't know if I can trust them anyway. I know a bloke who went to...
Nope
Dang, well I certainly didn't stop my vitamin C supplements before doing the test, so that means a false negative was possible. There's still my...
I'm 25.
Yep that's what I had privately through Genova.
Might be of interest to @lunarainbows as she has Lupus as well as ME.
The NICE guidelines for referral are different depending on your age, though: Refer adults using a suspected cancer pathway referral (for an...
Yeah, having found that in my Genova test results, I'm no longer worried. Will probably ask doctor anyway, but will defer to her opinion of...
But! Looking back at my Genova stool test results, my fecal calprotectin (a marker of inflammation) is healthily low. "Although a normal fecal...
Hmm, I've found the NICE guideline, and I wouldn't meet the requirements for referral, unless the doctor felt a mass upon examining my abdomen....
Hmm, just looked on the NHS website and it says that the faecal occult blood test doesn't guarantee you don't have bowel cancer and you should...
You mean they test your poo first, before referring you for a camera inside your bowel? Is that a "faecal occult blood test"? Because I had that...
How bad do loose stools need to be for it to be a possible sign of bowel cancer? (Edit: for the women reading this, please also be aware that a...
Did anybody watch/listen to this? What did he say?
In terms of cognitive fatigue, and my easily getting overwhelmed/exhausted by sensory information, I tell my family that my brain is like our old...
Wtf
Me too.
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