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Hi everyone. Have posted once before, but sometime ago so thought i should start again. I was diagnosed with anal cancer mid March and am on my third anal tear since early may. Is this something anyone else is familiar with,
Hope you are all OK. I've been checking in with most of the posts on here but do avoid reading some of them because I sometimes they make me a little anxious and therefore don't always reply. I hope that in the future when all this seems a distant memory...
Hi everyone had some bad news Wednesday my consultant said it looks like it’s come back!! I have to have a pet scan an biopsy, he said might be able to cut it out or might not so as you can imagine I’m in a right state with myself.
Well, bloody made it, last radiotherapy session at 10:30 this morning, been a slog but for a better quality of life, had to be done Im also seeing the oncologist today about the referral to ENT, oh and seeing the dietician as my weight has suffered...
Hi I'm Angel1066 I'm nervous and scared about diagnosis.
Morning all So we're here, the beginning of the end of this awful journey for this part at least! On the whole, I've managed quite well, apart from the mouth sores, sore hips in the 1st couple of weeks, and some radiation burns now, i feel ive got...
Hi everyone my questions goes to those of you who have had or have stomas. Has anyone had a reversal and if so how was it? i saw the surgeon this week who has now told me that if I want to try for a reversal it has to be within 6 months (bad timing...
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...
Hi I’m new to forum so thanks for being here it really does help. In June this year I had a persistent itch on my Anus at the 9 o’clock position. I then noticed/felt a very small lump probably the size of a pimple. I didn’t think to much about it but...
Good morning all I hope you are all as well as can be. I had my visit to my pelvic physiotherapist on Friday and told her since my mystery lump surgery that after twelve weeks of discomfort from it I started using the dilators again. I noticed a brown...
