Hello all. I hope you’re all okay and are managing some sort of rest/distraction over Christmas.
To cut a long story short, I had right hemicolectomy just under a year ago and then more chemo for Stage 3. 2/19 nodes involved.
Recovered well and managed to get back to work as a teacher for the most stressful COVID term! Have had many aches and pains on right hand side and told team. Last scan in Sept was clear and so was colonoscopy. However, new pain in right hand side became harder to ignore. Saw consultant who I think just thought I was being anxious and he wasn’t really bothered. Said he was happy it was scar tissue and suggested if I was really anxious we could go for another scan in a few months. He is very good and I trust him, but feel worried that I haven’t been able to tell him exactly what has happened and that things have changed slightly.
Since seeing him in early Dec I have now started to have a lot of bloating after eating and a huge amount of wind, especially at night. I also have sensation of trapped air in the bottom right of abdo. Is this where the join is? It feels like air just sitting there and irritating. Very persistent. Bowel has been very gurgle and growly recently too. It feels as if the air is trying to move ‘up’ the rhs of the colon but can’t.
I have lost sight of where I am now. I don’t feel I can go back to consultant as sent email and he followed up with cal explaining that cancer is only painful when it causes obstruction etc and that he was not worried. I know I am very lucky to have had a clear scan in Sept and colonoscopy, but should I be worried by recent developments? Or is it pretty unremarkable to suddenly get a lot more bloating and wind and to get this trapped air pain?
I am incredibly anxious but it’s hard not to be isn’t it. I am struggling to know whether I should just be ignoring it all but these things are hard to ignore aren’t they. Will alter diet but have had 10 months without that much bloating etc so hard to understand it! Bowel nurses nice but it is v generalised advice sometimes.
Continue to find the post treatment situation harder than the treatment. Know people here will understand. Sorry to waffle on - just worried and looking for reassurance.
