Anyone else can feel their colon on the lower right? Worried about sinister causes...

[Wobblyheart]

Well, I have been feeling truly awful for 2 years now. Have had lots of scans and bloods and tests done but haven't had a colonoscopy or abdominal CT/MRI as my GPs think it is due to anxiety (despite GP being able to palpate a noticeable lump in my lower right abdo).

I am terrified that we are missing a sarcoma or a bowel tumour - I read that it is NOT normal to be able to palpate your bowels. I can palpate this smooth sausage shape lump all the time, irrespective of bowel movements.

I have lots of other worrying symptoms too (nigh sweats, feeling full quickly, feeling like i need to go to the loo often, relentless fatigue), but somehow further testing doesnt seem necessary. I am so worried about leaving my 2 year old without a mum and feel helpless.

Please let me know if you had anything similar - or felt your own bowls on the right of your abdomen, I just need to have some perspective to stop me being a complete and utter mess.

It’s well within the realms of normal to feel your bowels there.

Hey
How are you ?
Dya mind me asking what happened ?

Ive had various colonoscopies

(3 in a 12 month time period
Although not one for over a year now )

I have an abdominal lump
(Seeing gp today )

What I can tell you, as a survivor, is that bowel cancer does not, in my experience, present as a palpable lump. If you don't have the symptoms that indicate that investigations like a colonoscopy or CT scan would be appropriate then it's really best if these limited and oversubscribed resources are left for those who need them. Health Anxiety is not best addressed by allowing the person to demand all the most expensive and in-depth diagnostic procedures. Even if such scans find nothing, the anxiety and paranoia is still there and still needs treatment - meanwhile a genuine case has been delayed for no benefit. You've been feeling like this for 2 years and have a 2-year-old - is it possible that undiagnosed/untreated post-natal depression has caused you to adopt this doom-focused mindset? Keep talking to your GP but credit them with some respect and accept that their professional experience is more valid than whatever you last googled.