Symptoms of bowel cancer

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Hi all

ive been having constant changes in my bowel habit, sometime solid and once or twice a day and a lot of it -sorry to be crude, but then I can be going more often and it’s looser, though not liquid. I have pain in my upper and lower back and either side of my wasteline. In terms of bowel symptoms is this what they mean when they say consistent Change in bowel habits or is it change to liquid or solid and it stays like that ?

ive not had any blood in my stool but the GP is not helping at all?

any help gratefully recieved

best wishes in your fight

court over 5 years ago

Hi ,

I think they mean when your Bowel habits alter from what was normal for you . That would include frequency etc . There are many reasons for this to occur . Some suggest keeping a diary to help you show your GP what you have been dealing with for a few weeks .

There are many conditions that cause Bowel habits to alter but if possible it’s reassuring to know why .

take care,

Court

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Kareno62 over 5 years ago

Hi stephenhat

You might wish to use this which has recently been produced by Bowel Cancer UK to help record any symptoms

bowelcancerorguk.s3.amazonaws.com/.../SymptomsDiaryApr2019.pdf

Macmillan Support Line - 0808 808 00 00, 7 days a week between 8am-8pm

stephenhat over 5 years ago in reply to Kareno62

Thanks for the replies court and Karen, i’ll Try and keep a record of them.

ive started to see spots of blood on the toilet paper now and i’m Going back to the GP again on Monday.

i seem to be feeling progressively worse as the weeks go by