Rectal Cancer

FormerMember over 5 years ago

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I start my treatment today. Over the past month I noticed that very small quantities of blood can be seen in some of my stools. Over the past few days the amount of blood has increased so that it now appears in nearly all of the stools, sometimes it is all blood that passes, not massive amounts, but enough to worry me.

I will mention it to the doctor tonight, has anyone had similar experiences.

Goslow.

Kareno62 over 5 years ago

Hi . Yes I used to see blood although it seemed to be more dripping out after a poo rather than actually in my stools (sorry if a bit early for that much information) I assume that it’s from the stools irritating the tumour and making it bleed as they pass by it - they were also quite thin. Part way through my radiochemo the bleeding seemed to stop and my stools became bigger which I hoped was the tumour shrinking. It turned out I had a 75% shrinkage after my 5 weeks treatment.

Hopefully your doctor won’t be too concerned and good luck with the treatment - time to zap that tumour!

Take care

Karen x

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FormerMember over 5 years ago in reply to Kareno62

Thanks Karen,

You are my guardian Angel.

I have the three pink 500mg tablets lined up and ready to take in 30 minutes.

Goslow.

process over 5 years ago in reply to FormerMember

Your doing good and Karen is great at giving fantastic reassuring info isn’t she, you will become second nature at all this treatment in a little while and remember it’s aim to attack the alien. X