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My Dad (82) had a major large bowel resection 2 years ago. He had no choice but to have a colostomy for life but is really struggling with his bowel struggling to process things causing unbearable constipation, pain and sleepless nights. In his words...
I had my second colon cancer operation in April 2019 taking away 80% of my colon. my toilet was about 12 times a day, my consultant put me on Imodium and codeine to control it. I am now up to 10 Imodium and 69mg of codeine a day. I have had episodes...
Hi, I had a hemi colectomy just over a year ago followed by chemotherapy. I felt that I was doing well with the diagnosis and chemotherapy. However I am now struggling with some not so good care, respect and dignity that I have had to experience along...
Hii was operated and had chemo 5 yrs ago but for the last 2 yrs I have had serious bowel movements constantly and pain, but my GP has not ordered the relevant colon cancer blood test. He puts it down to irritable bowel syndrome but I am pretty sure it...
Hi everyone. I was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer in July and had an operation to remove this and have an ileostomy bag put on me in August. During the operation the surgeon seen the cancer had spread to my lymph nodes and took what he could see...
Having Oxaloplatin with Raltotrexed chemo tomorrow following a 5 day stay in hospital after an allergic reaction to 5FU. Obviously worried after reading the info sent to me so wondered if anybody had hints or tips on how to cope with side effects particularly...
Hi everyone, this is my first time posting here and hope someone can help as I am pretty shocked at the moment. My elderly father, 92, has had bowel problems for a while, and his gp asked him to give a stool sample a week or so ago. The gp phoned my sister...
I was diagnosed with colon cancer and had an operation to remove my left colon a month ago. i have been homeless prior to my surgery and due to the chemo i am due to be housed and even though i am fit for discharge i haven't been discharged due to my...
Had telephone call with my oncologist regarding my MRI scan on my secondary tumours in liver. Looks like number of tumours haven’t increased but they have grown slightly, so got to have two more cycles of chemotherapy, then more scans and hopefully liver...
Hello everyone! I know that I have been very absent the past few months, I've been up to my eyeballs coping with life and the things it throws my way. It is now four years, almost to the day, since my first diagnosis. I was told that I would maybe...
