Hi, I’m Emma (38), I’ve recently had hernia surgery and to be honest a lot of my symptoms have been brushed off as this being the cause, for a couple of years now my bowel habits have been getting worse, I suffer with horrendous constipation & generally go one day a week, my body has to get rid of it all, it’s like diarrhoea but constipation, I’ve googled it every single time & hit a brick wall because what is the terminology for that?! My episodes increased from 6 monthly to every bowel movement, the pain is horrific, I’ve had children & honestly it’s worse than the induced labour contractions, wave after wave of excruciating pain in my left side. & lower abdomen, the only thing that has stopped me from calling an ambulance is pride. We are talking 1-3 hours of this pain
my gp carried out a fit yes & it is positive at 170, sometimes I see blood other times my stools are dark, I always have mucus, I get pain after a bowel movement too, it’s like I can feel it moving round my system, sometimes before a bad episode I get the worst gas pains as it travels around & then eventually out. I’m constantly nauseous too.small appetite and lost 2 stone over 2 years but no diet changes, don’t even get me started on the bloating!! It’s even worse since my operation
im having a ct scan of chest, abdomen & pelvis as I can’t have a colonoscopy until the end of January at the very earliest, the nurse said it would be done with contrast & a second one done a few days later. I’m worried but honestly at peace with the fact it’s possibly cancer, at least I can take control and get some treatments because at the moment my “strong” painkillers do nothing.
i feel like im going to die of embarrassment in the colonoscopy, its taken a long time to even speak to the gp over this although in the run up to my hernia operation I mentioned it more, im very fatigued, my white blood cells are low & crp at 16 which isn’t high but showing inflammation/ infection somewhere. My symptoms used to come & go but now they are permanent.
