Hello I've been having ibs symptoms for about 18months. I went through a phase a while ago freakibg that I had bowel cancer. This kind of went but recently I had bloating etc again. This sometimes comes and goes and I'm pretty sure there is a link to wheat. So just to make sure I went to the docs the other day. Now firstly he freaked me out because he said "well it's best to check because you are just out of the low risk age group but as you get older there is more chance of something nasty!" I'm 39 so this freaked me out. However he examined me and said there was nothing to worry about but seemed to make out that if my bloating continued I'd to go back.
So I left initially thinking all was fine and then, you know, the doubt started! And I started thinking and googling.
So I'm pretty sure I don't have bc. But my question is this.... if it was bowel cancer my symptoms would not recede and disappear for weeks and sometimes months on end Would they? Also if I'd had these symptoms for more than a year I would think that I'd probably be dead by now if I had anything serious...wouldn't I?
Im pretty sure there's a link to stress and wheat but so worried that it could be something else giving me these symptoms.
I think I'm going to try counselling as this hypochondria is really annoying!