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Can anyone who has undergone the above please give me some reassurance / support. It’s been agonising making a decision as I had 3 options, TAMIS, APR or straight to chemo/radiation. I have changed my mind a couple of times along the way and am now going...
hello i’m sandy , i’ve been operated for collective colon cancer and recovered well started chemo 6 days ago treatment and then tablets, first two days felt absolutely fine and thought wow this is it —-then began to feel really strange , wobbly bit sick...
It"s a week today since I had my op, recovery going pretty well, discharged on Monday, still no bowel movement but was given mild laxatives, really bad constipation yesterday but fingers crossed they've finally started working, also have an infection...
Hello all, woman in her early thirties here. I started having loose yellowish bowel movements a couple of months ago after withdrawing off some psychiatric meds. It seemed to level out but came back terribly with nausea, exhaustion, gas and cramping....
Hi I am 8 months post surgery. I have an ileostomy and past few days have been constantly getting horrific urge to poop. Its constant. I was prescribed an enema and have passed a stool and and am still constantly going to loo and passing small stools...
Hi all, just wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction. I was diagnosed at 31 with Stage 4a bowel cancer in 2019, and put a PIP claim in which was accepted. I have been receiving regular payments. I believe I am entitled to this for 5...
Tony went in for his operation this morning and went down very early. Fast forward a few hours and the surgeon has rung me to say it all went to plan and they got all the cancer out removing about 10%..they checked his tummy for further spread and...
Hello everyone. I started capox chemo today (4 cycles). Went on, but my mind, as per, is jumping about. I went to see the dentist about a month ago for a check up and told there was a small area of infection under an old filling, prob been there for years...
Finished radiology two weeks next Tuesday .But still no energy no appitite how does it take to feel some kind of normal
I don’t know if this is the place to post this, however here goes. I was diagnosed with rectal cancer in April and things moved pretty quickly after the colonoscopy, scans etc. hubby taking me to all the appointments and where possible coming in with...
