Katz Thanks for that. Newish to this and wasn’t sure on next reply it wouldn’t let me click.
Hi, after googling some of the clinical stuff on my letter, my prognosis has come at as poor and don’t seem to have much chance of survival. When I was in my consultation with my consultant he started on about prognosis and complex cancer. I hadn’t long...
Hello all! Hope you’re keeping well. I thought I’d share our good news on this forum also give others positivity and hope. hopefully some of you would remember me from my previous posts re my husband’s journey as a stage 4 bowel cancer, first diagnosed...
I'm having tests for bowel cancer and I'm really worried. My mother and sister both died at 56 of bowel cancer and I'm 57. I'm waiting for the colonoscopy which is soon but I'm so worried.
Hi, since I had my reversal (9th of February) I have no life. first surgery was well but recovery from surgery a nightmare. for the last 16 days I’m in agony, I have a fissure in my anus. Plus I need to go to the toilet around 20 times a day,...
Hi All i wanted to seek out advice. I’ve finished my chemo/radiotherapy and am waiting for the scans, which will be end of April. I am looking to go on holiday before the scans, and would like to know what others have done about travel health insurance...
Hello I’m new here ! My husband(44) has weight loss ( 19lbs since end of jan !!!:( ) , blood in stools and mucus , two small hard lumps in rectum , feeling the need to go to the toilet but cannot , diarrhoea and constipation . Niggly pain in left side...
I have had my operation on 9th March after a number of ct/mri scans, chemo/radiotherapy. I am extremely uncomfortable where I have had part of operation to remove rectum - can’t sit down. Do you have stitches removed at all, and if so do you get some...
So we sent the fit test off Monday and heard back today that hubby is being fast tracked for more tests, it seems to be lower GI bleeding , so so scared now Is it normal to be fast tracked like this after a positive fit test?
Hi all Im 3 weeks post colorectal resection surgery (robotic laparoscopic) and by all accounts and feedback from my medical team am recovering very well. I have the usual expected pain twinges and aches but manage with paracetamol etc. I’m getting...
