Unprovoked Embolism, age 30

Hey guys. It has been an exhausted 5 months. In october I started getting rectal pain/pressure feeling as well as a change in bowel habits. I had a colonoscopy done as well as a HRA anoscopy and both came back clean. I've also had back pain on and off for a few months in my middle back, which I have an mri scheduled for next week. My urologist wanted to get a CT of my abdomin/pelvis with contrast just to rule out other more serious things before she diagnosed Pelvic pain syndrome. A few doctors think my pain and symptoms are caused by anxiety and fear of Cancer. Well I am lucky I asked for the ct bc it incidentally found a small suspicious pulmonary embolism in my lower lung. Went to the ER and they did a CTA of my lungs and found it to be 2 small embolisms. My oxygen levels were 99% and I didnt really have symptoms. I stayed in the hospital for 2 nights and they did a ton of blood work which I'm still waiting on. They also repeated the Ab/pelvis ct with contrast and they found no abnormalities l, although the first ct showed rectal wall thickening and sigmoid colon thickening, which could have explained the rectal pressure. I am now taking eliquis while they wait for the blood results. I consider myself lucky and thankful I found it when it did, but I'm also even more anxious than ever because I am worried that a cancer caused these embolisms l, as I have read that it is a known risk factor. I have no family history of clots. The only think I can think of is my roadtrip 4 months ago from Fl to Tennessee which is about 10 hours each way, we only really stopped once briefly. Also when I got back i started having the back pain which made me miss a lot of work and I laid on the couch for a ton of time. Would you feel comfortable attributing these are provoking factors? I am tired of living in fear of cancer, I was about to ask my girlfriend to marry me in September before all of this and I feel like I have so many things going on at once now. Back pain, rectal pain, embolism, I cant even repeat a colonoscopy now for at least a month. I feel like I am on my own with this medical stuff now and I don't know where to attack all this. I would really appreciate some advice. Also are CT Angiograms where they look at lungs able to detect lung cancer? I don't think a hospital looking specifically at my lungs through ct would miss a mass, but I wasnt sure if that type of ct would see it.

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