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I have booked a doctor's appointment.

Just commenting to add that a persistent change in bowel habit can also be a symptom of ovarian cancer, so any women experiencing this should ask to be checked for this too.

Why do you think that?

I know. I will see the doctor. But I feel like doctors are so unreliable that I won't know if I can trust them anyway. I know a bloke who went to his GP about persistent loose stools and GP said that it was probably stress related and didn't refer him on. A couple years later he died of bowel...

Nope

Dang, well I certainly didn't stop my vitamin C supplements before doing the test, so that means a false negative was possible. There's still my low calprotectin though. :)

I'm 25.

Yep that's what I had privately through Genova.

Might be of interest to @lunarainbows as she has Lupus as well as ME.

The NICE guidelines for referral are different depending on your age, though: Refer adults using a suspected cancer pathway referral (for an appointment within 2 weeks) for colorectal cancer if: they are aged 40 and over with unexplained weight loss and abdominal pain or they are aged 50...

Yeah, having found that in my Genova test results, I'm no longer worried. Will probably ask doctor anyway, but will defer to her opinion of whether or not investigation is needed. It most likely is a reaction to some minor dietary change, but since its current impact on my quality of life is...

But! Looking back at my Genova stool test results, my fecal calprotectin (a marker of inflammation) is healthily low. "Although a normal fecal calprotectin does have a high negative predictive value for colorectal cancer, no single biomarker on the GI Effects panel is intended to exclusively...

Hmm, I've found the NICE guideline, and I wouldn't meet the requirements for referral, unless the doctor felt a mass upon examining my abdomen. But that isn't particularly comforting, since the bloke that I know who died from bowel cancer, didn't meet the NICE requirements for referral either...

Hmm, just looked on the NHS website and it says that the faecal occult blood test doesn't guarantee you don't have bowel cancer and you should still see your GP if you have any symptoms of it.

You mean they test your poo first, before referring you for a camera inside your bowel? Is that a "faecal occult blood test"? Because I had that done recently as it was included in a stool test that I did through Genova in the hope of seeing if there was anything in my gut impacting my fatigue...

How bad do loose stools need to be for it to be a possible sign of bowel cancer? (Edit: for the women reading this, please also be aware that a change in bowel habit can be a possible sign of ovarian cancer.) I would class my loose stools as 'mild annoyance', I don't need medical help for...

Did anybody watch/listen to this? What did he say?

In terms of cognitive fatigue, and my easily getting overwhelmed/exhausted by sensory information, I tell my family that my brain is like our old Windows computer which worked slowly and would freeze and stop functioning if you tried to use it like a 'healthy' computer (if you tried to make it...

Wtf

Me too.