Hopefully this will work!! Newbie

Iv a colorectal clinic appointment wk Tuesday 

my mother had bowel cancer at 39 I’m 43! Have had loads of bloods done my folate is very low so on folic acid my CA19-9 came back as 48 ( not high but raised and with Mother’s history I’m concerned) 

Tummy pains, feeling bloated, easily full, lack of appetite, weight loss ( some intentional but certainly not all) and extremely tired all the time! Bowels often constipated takes like three days to part with it lol  

should I be worried or is anybody going through similar??

  • I have similar symptoms, but I had a blood test weeks ago and nothing was found. I also gave teo stool samples which were well weird ( it looked like Mr Whippy Ice cream except for the colour which was a beige colour) the Hospital promptly lost them so I had to do another sample. I also feel as tired when I wake up as I do when I go to bed. Bowels today were well weird I was basically trying to go but the result was not much runny stuff and just wind, stomach cramps hurting like hell as well. I eventually phoned the out of hours Doctors but was given a series of questions like you get when you phone 111. the last question was do you have an Aortic Aneurism, to which I asked was that the same as a blocked Aorta, she said yes and told me to ring 999. So I got into panic mode and got an Ambulance on my dooestep in 10  minutes. I was not carted off to hospital but they told me to speak to my GP in the morning. I cannot tell you not to worry zeduk but try and be positive about it.

  • Oh god definitely go see your gp again until you feel happy they’ve explored everything 

    good luck let me know how u get on