Hi all, Read loads of threads to find similarity to what I'm going through but I just cant rest, cant focus at work and just sick with worry. I'm a healthy 36 year old. Ever since the birth of my daughter 3 years ago I've suffered with Iron Deficiency...
It is with a heart full of sadness that I have to share my mum passed yesterday . 15 years to the week she got a letter through the post to say she had a positive bowel screen . Other health issues surfaced and it was not cancer in the end . Mum was...
Anyone on here from Northern Ireland? Carer for my sister and she has a number of severe conditions and just been diagnosed with T3 , N1 bowel cancer. Any info gratefully received. There is only her and myself as we have no other family or friends;so...
Hi everyone, I’m Mark. 30 years old. No matter who you are, you find yourself researching for answers when you have / might have an issue - I’d tell my patients off all the time for doing it! (student paramedic)! Anyway, a previous patient told me about...
I had part of my bowel removed, high anterior resection July 5th. I'm still having problems going to toilet, can be very painful. Also I have a pain in my rectum which is there most of the time. Is this normal? Will everything eventually settle?
Is it normal to have a pain in your rectum after having part of your bowel removed? Had operation July 5th, but still have pain.
Hi. I came on here in August 2019, scared, after being diagnosed with Stage 4 Bowel Cancer. It has been misdiagnosed for around 2 years and was only really found when I was taken to A&E with sepsis. The cause? The bowel tumour has burst through and spread...
Anyone read the news this week on a trial in the US and how it uses immunotherapy to target bowel cancer? I wondered what genetic it is talking about anyone any ideas?
Hi, I has a colonectomy a week ago tomorrow for cancer in my ascending colon. I've been home a couple of days. I'm now having bright red blood following a bowel motion. I know I also have haemmeroids and have had blood like this off and on for some time...
Hi, my sister has just been diagnosed. Feeling very down. I am her carer and we only have each other. Feeling lonely, isolated but mostly terrified.
