General surgery appointment

Hi Geminipi

You have found a place to have support and advice. 

You can click on peoples names to read their back stories. 

The early days I found the worst and I was all over the place.
Dr Google can be really misleading and caused me to panic. Once you get your treatment plan you’ll be able to hand yourself over to the medics to sort the cancer out 

Please try not to think the worst it sounds as if you’ve been caught early and you’re treatment is planned. Once you know what the plan is you can put it here and have lots of advice 
 
Im sending you a hug 

Take care 

Definitely steer clear if google and all it's doom laden misinformation

Ive been exactly where you are, quick fire tests and then a diagnosis and action.

Try to think positive, it may not be the worst, and your lived one will support you all the way whatever happens.

The medics are fantastic and will help and guide you along whatever path needs to be taken.

Good luck and remember that there are loads of people on here that are experiencing what you are.

Richard (Eddie Stomart)

Hi Geminipi and a warm welcome to the board. Yes it does feel a bit like limbo land waiting for meetings and results but things will honestly feel a bit better once you have a treatment plan in place. As the others have said - stay away from google - you can ask anything you like on here and we’ll be happy to help.

I agree that it’s often easier to tell people once you have a clearer picture - my surgeon told me that they were treating me with ‘a view to cure’ which was reassuring. I’ve attached a link to a booklet that I was given at my first meeting which you may like to look at?

https://bowelcancerorguk.s3.amazonaws.com/Publications/YourPathway_BowelCancerUK.pdf

Please let us know how your meeting goes and we’ll be happy to help and support you through this

Take care

Karen x

I too was so devastated when I was told I had bowel, liver and stomache cancer.

I did feel I could share it with many people.

I seem to suffer with extreme anxiety. Has any one gone on tablets for this?

I have lost of appetite and extreme anxiety. 

Just finished a course of capacitabine which has helped the liver but the stoache is worse.

I am sue to start Folfiri next week but am worried about side effects.

I am feeling so scared. 

J

Meeting done but it has thrown up all sorts of things! The biopsies have shown abnormal cells but not cancer even although the consult feels like it is cancer! The CT and MRI show no cancer spread but they found a large fibroid(11 cm) Plan in place  Next is another colonoscopy to remove some other polyps and take deeper biopsies from the abnormal polyp. Provisionally the plan is a short does of radio therapy with a low dose chemo pill? Then surgery to get rid of the abnormal polyp and a hysterectomy to remove the fibroid - I think this will be done in one go! I think the one if the outcomes then could be a stoma but there is a long way before that. Relieved he said really treatable! I think the issue with the abnormal polyp is it position near the rectum!

Feeling much calmer about things. Still have to get my head round somethings as there was a lot to take in. 

The fibroid was a total surprise! A bit confused the plan seems the same if the polyp is cancerous or not! But I think they did say oncology would be reluctant to get involved if cancer isn't found?! 

Feeling a little confused but now have the third colonoscopy/polyp removal booked in a couple of weeks.