Hi all,

I am new here. I have been having issues with my poop for a while. They didn't seem like anything so I let them go.. My poop seemed brighter color than normal and was smaller. Thinner.

But I wasn't eating as much and going regularly. So I assumed it was nothing.

But this last month it has really ramped up. Terrible gas and diarrhea. So I asked my doc for a FIT test.

It came back positive. Blood in my stool. I wouldn't be so freaked out if I wasn't having these symptoms as well.

I got an appointment for a colonoscopy in a week but I am scared this is going go be cancer. I am just 50. My doctor didn't tell me that the age had changed for screening to 45 to 50. Had she I wouldn't have been screened.

I did have a FIT screening in 2017 that was negative but still.

Trying not to freak out.. can anyone offer some words of comfort?