Hello, I have posted a few times on the site and had some great advice. It is always good to hear the positive stories. My journey started October last year, colonoscopy found a large tumour in my rectum.On my husbands 60th birthday in November (mine...
Hi, I had my first colonoscopy a week ago after bleeding on and off for a couple of years. I’d had a qFIT test when it first started but it was negative so GP assumed piles. I’m 50. I went back a couple of weeks ago as the bleeding is still happening...
Hello Everyone! Hope you have all had a good week. Jay has just completed his first week of treatment on the Oxapilatin/ Capecitabine and so far so good. He has only had a few side effects but nothing really major. He has experienced the neuropathy...
So I've survived round one of folfori pump came off Sunday had a lovely hot shower,very nauseated Saturday and Sunday bit better Monday sweating like I'm in my menopause and red faced,oh and heartburn started yesterday. Not too bad yet! I have a feeling...
I went in hospital last Tuesday for LAR resection. Before I went into surgery my surgeon decided to give me a stoma. The surgery was just over 7 hours long. I can't believe how they keep the pain under control. I was up the very next day in a chair...
Hi everyone. this is my first post since diagnosis & only just feel like reaching out. I was diagnosed at my colonoscopy back on 15th June. For 4 years before that I had been back & forward to my GP who kept diagnosing me with IBS. Many symptoms, aches...
Hi guys, should be starting treatment in a few weeks and like everyone before starting treatment I have been Googling frantically of all the possible side effects, one of which my oncologist did mention to me and said it was rare was these throat spasms...
So saw the original surgeon who done my bowel resection nearly 10 years ago . He and the MDT checked my recent scan I had which has a abnormalities on my lungs abdomen and pelvis. They thought it was a small bowel cancer recurrence, but now he’s thinking...
Having gone through Bowel cancer a few years ago, a good friend questions me often about her sister's diagnosis - who was diagnosed with rectal cancer several months, ago. Since then, she has undergone 6 mths. of Radiotherapy & chemo. at the renowned...
So I attended my first oncology apt today and it broke me I really didn’t think I would need 6 months of it, 6 months of CAPOX, I don’t think it’s the idea of chemo scaring me it’s the possible side effects that are freaking me out, now I know everyone...
