I am 61 and about 2 years ago I was diagnosed with non alcoholic cirrhosis. This came as a huge shock as I have never really been much of a drinker. It was discovered during my yearly diabetes blood tests that I was severely anaemic. From the end of August last year until boxing Day I was admitted to hospital due to eosphegeal bleeding 8 times. It was horrible and frightening. I am due to have my yearly abdominal scan this Thursday. This is to check for liver cancer. I had unexpected bleeding ten years ago and had an internal ultrasound which showed that I had lots of fibroids but I was given the all clear and nothing has happened since until now. I had finished my menopause when I was 43.
Last Tuesday I started having really bad pain in my stomach, back and into my groin. I called my GP who said to go to A and E as it could be pancreatitis which I had 11 years ago. The senior nurse practitioner said that I had blood in my urine and it was a kidney stone and sent me home with codein and told to return if things got worse. I noticed some pink stained mucus but thought it was due to the kidney stone. By 3pm I had to go back to the hospital. This time they sent me to the surgical assessment dept. I then had an CT scan at 2am as they thought it may be appendicitis. They then said that there was a cyst on my uterus and passed me on to gynae. I had an internal ultrasound and internal examination. The next day I had a biopsy and the consultant said it could be a fibroid extending outside the uterus or endometrial cancer. I will get the results in the next two weeks and have an MRI within two weeks.
I am in bits. It is going round and round my head and I can't concentrate on anything else. I thought my life was a bit rubbish before with my cirrhosis but now I feel like I have no control over it.
