So so happy that I have finally (after a very long and anxiety filled wait) received the results from my 4 year scan - and all good!! Can't tell you how relieved I feel. Apparently this is the last scan now, with just a consultant check up in a year...
Hi all, whatever I do I can’t get my heat around having surgery an my anal canal removed plus having a stoma I’m so worried about it?? Post op an after the op, no idea what to do or think anymore
Hello fellow bum chums, It's three years now since I was diagnosed, T4 N2 M0, after being fobbed off with piles ointment for three years. I had the treatment at Guys in London, chemo and radio, during lockdown on me own . It was dreadful, but it's...
Hello guys thoughts please… I keep reading a plant based diet is a much better safer way forward also no sugar or dairy or alcohol. The chances of recurring is much higher if this diet isn’t followed. Now I’d definitely go organic if I could afford it...
Hi all, hope everyone is as well as can be? A quick question if i may please? I have been referred to an occupational therapist who is going to come round to see if they can do anything to help me, im in a flat on the 1st floor with 2 sets of stairs...
And y'all know how much I hate Anoscopy Day. I should move to England, for many reasons, but no anoscopies being one of the main ones. The anti-anxiety pill the doctor was supposed to call into the pharmacy still hasn't happened. Fingers crossed that...
Morning all So we made it to the end of week 3! Little apprehensive about today, picc clean and flush, now, each time ive had this done it has been really quite sore, apart from 1 time, the nurse was a little more sensitive to the situation, this...
Hi my dear friends, well it's been a little while but I've been keeping an eye on you all . I'm going through the scansiety stuff again after my normal yearly appointment with the surgeon and after not being called back after reporting a few 'bloody'...
Afternoon all, just a quick update Sooo, after a week and a half on bland, soft food owing to a mouth full of sores, im so happy to be sat here eating some homemade, crunchy, garlic bread (its the future dont ya know ) I am making the most of it...
I’m still really struggling! I’m in so much pain no one seems to be listening to me suicidal thoughts are worse then ever I’m just crying all the time, it keeps getting infected so they put me antibiotics the ones I can’t tolerate!! How do people get...
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