My Dad has been feeling "not right" for a while, we reckon since about February / March 2012. Noticibly he has not really fancied eating chocolate which for my dad is a big thing as he lives on chocolate and would eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day.
Around May he had blood in his stools and went to the GP, she prescribed some medicine and sent him for a test. We thought this was the camera up the bum, but apparently it wasn't. My Dad not being one for hospitals / doctors etc decided that as the medicine seemed to have sorted out the problem of blood in his stools, that was that. Though he still didn't feel right.
He did go back to the GP around September, and she decided he had depression and prescribbed "happy" pills, which he took for about 2 weeks and decided that thet didn't agree with him, made him feel worse and so stopped taking them.
He had an annual review at the protate clinic, and the doctor who saw him was concerned about how much weight he seemed to have lost because of the way his trousers were hanging. She raised requests for bloods and an MRi scan. When they went back for the results she confirmed it he had Bowel cancer.
He has a camera up the bum test booked and has been referred to a different team who specialise in bowel cancer. Sorry not good at remembering or spelling all the technical terms and names etc.
So far though things seem to be positive, and they are talking about surgery to remove :-)
