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Hello - My last chemoradiation treatment was 9 days ago. 30 treatments. I'm having so many more side effects since I finished than during treatment. Within a couple days I got a bad stomachache that lasted 24 hours, never happened before. The same time...
Good morning everyone , can’t get this out of my head!! - has anyone had a 95% result ( which is fantastic!!) after treatment chemo radiotherapy and then the cancer has come back if so at what point and where was it in a different place to the anus? ...
I'm so discouraged. Not three days after my year-after scans and getting that much-desired NED, I hit a pain spike that just keeps getting worse. I've been up and on the couch for the last two nights, and I've got a busy day today and tomorrow and I'm...
Hi Everyone, I did post in my six month results message (when i got the all clear hurrah!) that my Consultant wanted me to have a Sigmoidoscopy just as an extra check after MRI and examination. Well good news was that they found no sign of recurrence...
Hello, I was diagnosed 2 days ago and whilst it's good to finally know I now have a whole new set of fears and worries. I live alone and have a mortgage to pay and am very scared about how I am going to manage to get through this alone. Am I being stupid...
If I had known and had the HPI vaccine, I might not be on this journey.
Hi Friends, I’m wondering what lifestyle changes, if any, people have made after diagnosis and through successful treatment. I want to hear from anyone who wants to share, but especially those of you who have had lasting NED/cure. Have you changed...
So it's all taken about 9 months, but I've been given the all-clear on my tumor. I know that's really great news, and I suppose I am relieved, but I don't really *feel* anything. I am confused by my lack of reaction. I wonder if part of it is because...
I haven’t been on here for a while, I have been disease free now for 12 months which is great, my trouble is the stoma and parastomal hernia that I am waiting for an operation to reverse and fix which is fine but work have turned into an utter bunch of...
I have had a apr op and was left with a stoma colostomy on the left hand side of my tummy , I had complications and had to have another emergency op to have a ileostomy which is on the right hand side of tummy . All was well and I was on they way to recovery...
