You are probably visiting this website because you have bowel symptoms which might be worrying youPeople experience all sorts of bowel symptoms including bloating, bowel spasm and weight loss but there are three
KEY symptoms to identify more serious bowel disease including bowel cancer - ask yourself – do you have:
- Bleeding from the bottom
- Change in your bowel habit - including constipation and diarrhoea
- Abdominal discomfort or pain
If you have any of these three
KEY symptoms, click on your
AGE below.
The good news - most people with bowel problems do not have anything serious. This 'symptom checker' simply advises how long it is safe to wait before seeing your GP. If you are at very low risk of having anything serious it is well worth waiting to see if your symptoms settle with simple treatments. If you don't have these try clicking (left) on 'More on Bowel Symptoms' - if you are still unsure what to do see your GP.
This new website is intended to be helpful – it is advisory only, based on over 30,000 people with bowel symptoms attending hospitals in the Portsmouth area of South England. We hope you find it useful and would appreciate your feedback
Important: if your symptoms are severe and you also feel generally unwell or the symptoms keep coming back – see your doctor Begin the symptoms checker by clicking on your age: