Name change... says exactly what I am... a massive severe Health anxiety worrier.
I’ve been suffering with bowel/stomach issues for a while now. I’m 27, overweight and not eating the best diet.
Beginning of this year I had consistent stomach pains for 3 months, which didn’t stop. I think my worrying and anxiety caused them to stick around longer than needed.
Around this time, I also had a couple of horrible diarrhoea episodes which seemed to coincide with eating pro biotic yoghurts and heavy dairy meals. Then suddenly the stomach pains stopped and I didn’t have them again.
There have been a couple of random diarrhoea episodes since but nothing to write home about, usually they start with excruciating stomach pains and then I go and it’s over quite quickly. The last one I had was Monday, I was on my period as well that day which is particularly bad because of the covid jab. I’ve also been having stomach pains this week (presuming from my period)
Tonight I’ve been for a bowel movement, it was normal apart from the smell of metallic or metal? The stool didn’t look any different than it normally does and I definitely couldn’t see any blood or anything out of the ordinary. I’m struggling to remember if I’ve ever had a metallic smelling stool before and now I’m panicking that I have and it’s been going on for a while.
I’ve googled and absolutely terrified myself into tears and blind panic thinking I’ve got bowel, colon or a stomach cancer. My health anxiety means that I have a fear of going to the doctor’s for tests.
Please can anybody ease my mind? Google is my worst enemy and I’ve honed in on cancer rather than potentially just being my diet or IBS.
Thank you x