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Hi, I'm a 22 year old female with high levels of anxiety about health, life, and pretty much everything. Recently I've been having anxiety over what appears to be red in my stool. I don't know if it's food or what, but it's causing me to panic every which way and Dr. Google isn't helping. It kind of looked like flecks and it only seemed to be really noticeable after wiping. I'm also experiencing some irritation with my anus, so it's led me to be a bit worried. Some background though, I experienced this today, and yesterday I had pizza and a taco with a few tomatoes in it, as well as being constipated and straining recently due to stress from a large assignment over the weekend, to which I even had a panic attack over at work which was embarrassing. I've also had stomach/bowel problems ever since I was a child, according to my mom, and pretty much everyone in my family is either A. Allergic to dairy, eggs, gluten, and B. Have some form of IBS (which I also probably have because I get stomach problems depending on what I eat,, not to mention anxiety causes issues.) I have no family history of cancer, save for my grandfather getting Leukemia in his late 70s. The females in my family also have a history of having some type of reproductive problems, my sister PCOS, my mom has a "fluffy uterus," a few of my cousins have endometriosis. Heck, I probably have some problems but I just haven't been formally diagnosed and it's usually solved with my BC pills. (Note: My dad also died from a weird heart mutation that gave him congestive heart failure, which I have been tested for and do not have, as well as most of my mom's side having diabetes. But that's a story for another day.) I could be panicking for no reason, but there's this underlying fear and it's causing problems with focusing in school, work, or other life activities, as well as causing depression which I'm prone to. I've seen this type of thing before, too, but I feel like I can always trace it back to something red I ate the day before. I'm also seeing a new doctor next week, and I feel like I should tell her about these problems to get some reassurance. But some talking sense to would be nice, as I feel like I'm driving myself up a wall with this worry. Thanks for reading this far!

Hello All! So, I will start out by saying that I saw the doctor for this last month. Lost the blood work paperwork and the Rx I had been prescribed is just getting filled (took a while). But, this is intermittent and really still freaking me out. Two things are going on: 1) When I eat, food seems to go down slow. And now, I find myself obsessing about it. Every bite, every swallow, I think "Please go down normal". 2) Every couple of weeks, my stomach on the left side gets irritated on and off. Now, I do think some of that might be constipation, but not 100% sure. My doctor (bless her heart), tried to assure me and did not think I needed an endoscopy even. She wanted to try the meds and thinks that will clear up the issue. Has anyone else had that feeling with the food and started obsessing over it? I guess I am thinking that I am now psyching myself out over it and making it worse.

So latley I've been having a super bad bloated stomach. I burp and pass gas a lot. When I burp I sometimes taste food I've eaten hours ago. Gross I know. But when I get up after laying down I get this feeling like I want to throw up and my heart races a little. I had blood work chest xray and ekgs all done twice and they came back good. So what's going on? Oh and I'm constipated and when I do pass stool it has some mucas in it and it's kinda patchy. Please help and let me know what it is or might be and ways to relieve it.

Hi my name is Vanessa and I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression at the age of 14. I am now 31, and Recently my dr decided that I was on to much medicine, and told me to start to tapper off all of them. 3 weeks have pasted and i weened myself off of everything except for Lamictal (was on 300 and now I'm on 75mg). I can no longer function.... i do not feel sad or depressed just very very anxious. So anxious that I struggle leaving my house most of the time. I have not been to work in a week and a half, and I feel very discouraged and sad about it. I thought I was stronger than this, I thought that I would be able to do it on my own, but I can't. Yesterday the dr prescribed me 20mg of Prozac but told me it takes from 2- weeks to kick in. What in the hell am I suppose to do for 2-4 weeks....please help