hi just a quick update starting chemotherapy this Monday four three week cycles and feeling really positive. Any advice will be gratefully received…my partner is just making a list of stuff that will help make things easier. Heaven knows how I would...
Hi everyone, i have had ongoing bowel problems since i can remember. it became more prominent in my late 20's and I am now 38 years old. i had my gallbladder removed in February 2018 and straight away i was having faecal incontinence, bloating, wind...
Hi Everyone I had a colonoscopy on 18th October 2020 and a tumor was found, I then had an operation on 17th November 2020. I was told I will have to have a colonoscopy on year one, year three and year five. My question is when do you think I will...
Hi all been reading a lot of posts about getting a stoma,I just wanted to say I have had an ileostomy since 2019 emergency surgery after bowel perforated, it was a shock waking up a month later and been told I now have a stoma yes there were teething...
Hi all, Here to share my journey so far with you all... I was diagnosed back in May with stage 4 bowel cancer with metastasis on the retroperitoneal area. I didn't have any symptoms other than dull back pain and some weight loss. It took 6 months to...
Hi all well now I've stopped chemo I feel loads better my sodium levels have gone back up and my ileostomy output is more or less back to normal its always in the back of my mind I had cancer and didn't finish chemo but I just keep thinking it was all...
Hi, Im new here. I've been having bowel ( constipation, bloating) for a while. Had a ct colonoscopy which has showed slight thickening of the sidmoid colon and 2 or 3 pronounced lymph nodes but the consultant added, no signs of obvious malignancy. I...
Just had telephone call from community macmillan nurse to say she will come to my house to take blood test on 26th Oct and talk to me about what they do. What on earth, has anyone else had this, bloody anxiety gone throu roof again Bud Xxx
Hi, I had surgery beginning of the year to remove rectal cancer some months later I’m having weeks of brown discharge when I wipe after my period. I’ve read it can be related to premenopausal? I’ve got a Doctors appointment as obviously I need to be...
Its nerve racking waiting for results. Im losing weight dont know why. Go said it was stress
