Hi. I’m new here.
You people are so brave, sharing your stories.
I’m a teacher at a British International School on Koh Samui in Thailand. I hadn’t felt well for a couple of weeks and went to dr for some blood tests, thinking it was dengue fever or flu. I had no energy and felt exhausted.
Tests showed no dengue but white cells up with no obvious sign of infection. I was asked more questions about my symptoms and mentioned weight loss, aching round hips and lower back and some stool changes but that was incidental rather than anything.
Dr asked for stool sample and later same day said there was microscopic blood in my sample and that I should seek CAE blood test and colonoscopy. This is when the fear set in.
I’ve had the colonoscopy and they said diverticulosis and gastritis but sent some stuff off for biopsies.
I need to wait until 20th Feb for results but been told husband and I both need to be there for results appointment. We are away that week but booked for 5th March.
I am petrified. I know it can be other things but why send biopsies off if doc wasn’t suspecting cancer?
It all happened so quickly. FIT poo results Thursday night, at the hospital ( self-referred with doc note of what I needed) and saw internal medicine doc at 9am. He wanted to do colonoscopy that afternoon, which he did.
All of these things suggest to me that something isn’t looking good.
I’m very grateful for the insurance my school have for medical stuff but if anything needs doing now, I go to the social security hospital for treatment. I do realise how lucky I am.
