anxiety and constipation

I have had similar and even blood in my underwear and sometimes bright and other times darker but the blood can still be dark and we can still be healthy.

By all means pop along to your GP and ask for a second opinion as I am not a doctor.  All I can say is I have similar symptoms. All those bowel treatments I think did me more harm than good so I have sacked them all and try to eat better and drink 8 glasses of water a day. I think we have all been like re: straining. I get stomach craps at times. I have anxiety and IBS and one has possible caused the other. I move between constipation and running to the loo. I have had symptoms since 2011.

My first advice is to not google your symptoms. For some strange reason any symptom googled is directly as a "cancer" symptom. Also colon cancer does not work its way fast. I do know that colon cancer or any sort of cancer starts off with fatigue feeling extremely tired that you no longer can do the easiest activity of the day with other symptoms such as fevers, loss of appetite, vomiting and weight loss all at once. When you have cancer you would definitely feel a change most of the time especially when its at a advance stage. So definitely lay off googling symptoms. I remember googling my symptom and it also led to cancer which was just silly and false. I too had experience anxiety from it but after some time I felt better. Also if you think the blood is from the hemorrhoid you need to go to the ER. It may not be as serious as cancer but its still a bit serious for a hemorrhoid to erupt. I recommend you not to force and push. I was suffering from constipation and I had one as well. I stopped forcing myself to push and relied on stool softeners for about 5 days and jet worked after I stopped taking them. Don't mix laxatives and stool softeners that is the worst idea that can lead to feeling much worse. Since you stopped bleeding you are in the clear. I would recommend eating more fruit and oatmeal (use skim milk instead of normal milk or water. Its the same as the taste of regular milk) it does sound like you have ibs this stuff can go on for weeks, months and even years. People may experience symptoms as yours while others who have ibs will go on with their lives never knowing they had it. Its just one of those odd things. I wouldn't worry about it being colon cancer. That usually happens to people 50+ years who eat bad quality food their wholet lives. If you drink water, exercise (not daily but at least 2 times a week), don't consume much alcohol, processed meat and such you are in the clear. Just don't google symptoms anymore. Its all rubbish stuff

Doctors couldn't identify my symptoms so I googled and ended up consumed with panic, anxiety, terror and despair.  Every day I focused on a new nasty condition.  Once I was diagnosed with IBS, my panic cleared up and my symptoms reduced.  However, see your doctor for tests and diagnosis and reassurance.  Ask for an ultrasound, CT,  stool and celiac test, colonoscopy, endoscopy, 

To be fair to the doctors they did diagose me with IBS but I did not believe it. I could not work out how someone reasonably healthy could go from someone with a carefree laissez faire attitude to someone who found it very difficult to leave the loo.

I just could not comprehend how this had happened. I thought it must be a phase or it was an ingredient in the food. I thought there has to be a reason and I must find it to go back to being the person I was. The chap who did not race off at a punk concert and leave his g/f standing there whilst he ran the length of a London high street trying to find a loo, easier said than done in some parts of London.  This led to me panicking all the time. I used public transport for work and biggest worry was not month end but will I get from bus station to another without needing the loo. I was in meetings with senior management and trying to not let my body take over which it inevitably did causing me problems at work and in my relationship which I have found is very common from comments in here. I am much better now though far from cured but I did a complete makeover with my diet producing my own diary.