Forgot to say on my first post I am so pleased Don that your wife is ok and nothing horrible for her...Thank you Marggie and Sadler...I am calmer now, shall I say what mine was, hell we don't seem to talk about bowel movements in this country yet we all do them! Don has posted without embarrassment about his wifes constipation
if any one finds my post offensive then please don't read it but surely ignorance is not bliss where health is concerned...
It was my last test as I could not do the "necessary" on demand! Most other things were quite good for my age and being a smoker(always trying to quit) the chest xray was my main concern but that was fine...
When the translator told me I had blood in my "stool" test I was not expecting it and because they said to book a colonoscopy up I asked when they said very soon it sent me into complete panic, I am ashamed now but I cried all the way to the dolmus and all the way home on the dolmus lord knows what the locals thought
I do admit I have a tendency to go into extreme panic mode where health matters are concerned, so I did manage to calm my self down with the aid of a sleeping tablet that night and it did not ruin the rest of my holiday...I did a home test when home and that was clear so I was not going to bother with the doctor but during the time I was in Turkey the lovely Lynda Bellingham passed away I saw something about her saying about colonoscopies on TV and her stool tests being totally clear, so that got me into action and I contacted the gp, I really thought they may say a test in Turkey would not count but I was listened to and had to redo the test, two out of three came back showing a trace of blood so the gp has referred me for a colonoscopy I am not looking forward to one bit and the waiting is pretty bad but hell I just have to deal with it and if it does happen to be something sinister at least by having that first test in Turkey will have alerted me to there being a problem, otherwise I would be still going about my life blissfully unaware of anything going on, I can understand now why on the list of tests from the Esnaf they call some tests "internal medicine" as you don't know what is going on inside...
I would say also if any one else found themselves in this situation please do not ignore it or be embarrassed my gp has been great and I hope I get a nice person when I go for the procedure... And do not necessarily take the results of a home test as being correct, when I say correct I do not mean anything about diagonosing anything I mean as in there could still be blood present that personally I think needs to be picked up in a laboratory...
Sadler you are quite right my fears hopefully will all be unnecessary and in fact from today I am being a lot more braver about it all...Thank you re the positive and healing thoughts hope all is well for you health wise now