So today I went for a walk, wrapped up warm wore gloves as the Folfox chemo affects my fingers when cold. Oddly whilst walking my eyelids started twitching and I had a job to keep my eyes open! Home now in the warm and eyes are still Twitching, has anyone...
Does anyone have any experience of having these type of polyps removed? I’m due to have a polypectomy on 2nd February and am a bit worried. My surgeon said that I had to have it done during the week so that a surgeon would be available if they perforate...
So I haven’t posted for a while as my husband has been going through chemotherapy. We’ve just seen the surgeon who has said there’s no cancer spread but the tumour is large in the lower rectum. He’s going to remove the tumour, the coccyx, the pelvic floor...
My husband had no symptoms at all then got blood in his stool and indigestion -?doctors thought it was diverticulitis so sent for tests to see. A few days later on 21st October the diagnostic bowel cancer hit us like a bulldozer. Further tests showed...
Hi.im new here and would love some help/views if anyone in similar delema I had a right hemi colectomy 5 weeks ago which went well and am still slowly introducing different foods. I'm getting so anxious now as I'm about to have chemo and have been...
I have been following this wonderful site, since my diagnosis of Bowel Cancer in May, 2019. I have always cooked & ate very well...However, I love meat. Yet also, I drink wine & smoke - so, possibly a candidate for cancer. However, I have read on this...
So Wednesday I was just so happy my mum's op went well how things have changed in the matter of days.... my mum seems to have gone down hill. She was vomiting a lot all brown sorry for the details and also her tummy is like a balloon. They sent her...
Had an appointment with my oncologist Thursday he's very pleased with the way treatment is going on maintenance 5fu scan next month I'm not thinking about it...I'm not I'm not I actually got to see my scan results from end Nov and read The report...
So yesterday after what seemed like a life time of waiting (even though only 8 weeks) my mum went in for her op. She went in at 6am and was down having surgery by 9am. I received a call from the surgeon at 12.30pm to say my mum's op went really well...
My Hemicolectomy was in May '19, following Bowel Cancer diagnosis a month before. I stayed in hospital for 4 days. Should have been 3, but I had no one to pick me up. I woke from surgery with a drip of Fentanyl for the first day, which was reduced to...
