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Hi everyone i am Now coming up to 4 months post chemoradiation, I go to the toilet daily, not loose but formed. Sometimes if it’s a bit more difficult to pass I have a bit of blood when I wipe. My bum is also always sore still and after bowel movement...
After sixteen months of waiting for treatment, ie. Polypectomy I have just been diagnosed with anal cancer. It was not a surprise to me, but clearly a surprise to the consultant. I’m ok but then not ok. I am really worried about my partner who could...
Hiya, will be starting intense chemo radiation in the next few weeks. Just wondering if anyone knows any accommodation locally as I will be there 5 days a week and travel to and from my house/christies is over an hour. thanks
Hi everyone, I am about 2 years out of treatment for stage 3 AC . And although the treatment was successful, to which i am truly thankful, I have had a really rubbish 2 years since then.and I am feeling so low .Firstly, after my treatment finished i developed...
Hi everyone, I was diagnosed last year in April '23. When I went to my appointment with the oncologist they informed me it wasn't anal cancer but AIN 3. This is pre-cancerous stage, high grade, but not cancer. Long story short I had to have biopsies...
Hi Just thought I'd post this, it may help someone. I finished treatment on 6th November so im about 2.5 weeks post now. I was dreading using the dilators because of what I'd read but I finally went for it yesterday and so far so good don't know what...
Hello newbie here. I wish I found this site sooner. I am scared to death.. but my story start with I thought I had a hemorrhoid. So I went for my colonoscopy and they said that they can not remove it I would have to see a surgeon. So I go to the surgeon...
Good afternoon everyone. October already! I had my CT scan a week ago, what a kerfuffle. The 2 pints of water an hour before was agonising to hold on to! I now have a new nurse, she can sometimes be very difficult to get hold of I have been suffering...
Hello everyone I'm Ali, 52 year old awesome woman living in Reading, UK. After having some symptoms that I'd put down to a bout of food poisoning in mid-July and/or food poisoning and/or a shitty time at work - I had a colonoscopy on 19 October where...
Hi everyone, I’m asking on behalf of my wife who has just finished radiotherapy and it’s starting to burn and blister as we were told it would. she’s been told to use Flamazine which she has just started using but it seems to have made the pain worse...
