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Hi all, My beautiful mum had a colonoscopy last week and they found a sizeable tumour which they told her looked like cancer. She has had cancer twice before once when she was 16 and once when she was 40. She’s now in her late 50s and it all just...
Well, today is a little bit `reflective` for me as it would have been my husband Jay's 70th Birthday. A milestone I hoped he would see with us here on earth but sadly not to be. This time last year his bowel cancer was really beginning to take a grip...
Feeling very overwhelmed after months of changes to bowel habits and a 2 weeks wait being provided for a colonoscopy on 12/1/24. I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 51. The tumour was almost obstructing the bowel and I had surgery 11 days later...
Hi all, I’ve recently had a lot of weight loss, I have ulcerative colitis which isn’t active at the moment. I’ve just had a fit test come back as 33.20 ug/g. Last year I was diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis, should I be worried about this result. I...
10 days ago my hubby had a Right Hemicolectomy, recovered well from surgery , his bloods dropped a bit and he was sore as was expected. Came home 3 days ago and been in a lot of pain, cannot go to the toilet. In the early hours of this morning I wanted...
Hello everyone, this is my first post, I'm hoping for a little help. I had surgery last August and now have an ileostomy after bowel cancer. After the initial trials of finding the right bags etc, I settled on the correct combination of rings, paste and...
Good Morning all, I have / had Rectal cancer ,operated on in October . i have also had one light and one heavy session of chemo , which has been a nightmare and have been told last week that i can't have anymore. i am emptying my bag 11/12 times a day...
Feeling really heartbroken my husband was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer with spread to lungs in August 2022 he was originally told uncurable and unoperable but after 9 months of chemo and 5 weeks of radio we finally got told in July 2023 that surgery...
Hello everyone, I'm new here and 58 years old. I am 8 weeks on from a right hemicolectomy for a tumour in my caecum. They took 34cm of bowel and 18 lymph nodes. My cancer was stage 2 and the tumour grade was T3N0M0. I hoped not to have chemo but there...
Hi not posted anything for a few months had my ileostomy reversal in October everything going okay managed to fit in 2 holidays since the op ! The next thing on this journey is my yearly scan don’t think I know how I should be feeling, one minute think...
