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Worried :( urgent cancer referral this coming Monday

Lucietia
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So for 9 months I have been suffering a pain in my left side under my ribs. I have had lot of blood tests and doctor appointments and they have said I'm fine. Even said anxiety can cause pain. :( this pain was just waking me up in the night but now I have it through the day. So eventually a doctor sent me for a CT scan and they called me to say that the radiology department have requested a urgen referral. 2ww cancer pathway. I was asked to go for a urgent blood test the same day. So my appointment is for next Monday with a cancer specialist and I'm scared out my wits! They found thickening of my small intestine wall along with a dilated uretea (tube from kidney) I have looked on Google and there is not much to read on this condition but I'm so so scared.my bloods came back pretty clear apart from low serene folate (b12/folic acid) and high serene lipid I am hoping someone can read this and possibly help me with some reasons as to what this is. Also why would a radiologist request a urgent referral? 

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    Hi,

    You are not alone in being sent for an urgent referral and it is stressful.  

    Im now waiting for a result of my biopsy and the waiting game is awful with my imagination running riot. 

    Al i can say is, if it is cancer it will be caught early and treated quickly before it does much damage. Ive never been in this situation before and if 1 in 2 ppl get cancer, thousands of ppl must be feeling as we do.

    We havent actually been diagnosed yet so deep break, keep busy so you dont keep thinking about it and i hope all goes well at your appt. 

    X

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    So I've been to my referral and I'm being sent for a colonoscopy and mri scan. The waiting is just unbearable :( The consultant said that my small bowel is distended which I'm unsure what that means and that where the thickening is a colonoscopy wouldn't reach so a mri is also needed. Bloods are all clear so I'm hoping this is a good sign. Hope everyone is plodding on as well as they can x

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    I hope all goes well at your next appointment.  I find it odd that we get an urgent referral and then sit waiting for further tests and results. 

     

    The appt for my biopsey result is this Thursday and its weird...part of me is hoping for the best, the other part of me is wonder what treatment i will get if it is cancer and...another part of me is thinking *** this, not sure if i want to know the results, lets go on holiday instead.  i think stress is playing havoc with my mind so...im out gardening and sorting out the damage caused by the wind to calm me down.

     

    Xxx

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    Hi I was just wondering how your appointment went? I hope you are ok 

     

    xx

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    Thank-you for thinking of me and asking. I went for my biopsey and no one could find the mark that my dentist found. It had gone. But a biopsey was taken from my cheek, i did explain id accidentally bitten my cheek. 

    Test result came back that it was scar tissue.

    How are you?

    X

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    Ah that's good news. I'm so glad your ok :) 

    im ok still in pain unfortunately had my mri yesterday so just waiting again for diagnosis. Just sitting tight at the moment.

     

    xx

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    Hi,

     

    Let me know how you get on, fingers crossed you will be ok.

    Its not until we are in the situation of waiting for results do we realizpe how stresful the mention of the big C is.

    Ive only just realized its not just about ilness its what it does to ppl mentally. 

     

    Xxx

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