Hi there,
so im after advice, possibly even someone to help me feel better who has been through this!
Background: granddad died at 73 with bowel cancer, father died 4 years ago at 52 with bowel cancer and I am now 28.
6 years ago I had a colonoscopy due to bleeding that came back completely clear no polyps just slight piles and no further treatment required.
august last year (2018) I had 9 days where I felt (only way I can describe) as a lead ball in my back passage so I went to the doctors had a digital rectum examination, bloods, and stool sample that all came back fine.
since around the 10 th of December it came back, a constant feeling of something being there that was relieved slightly by going to the toilet, (no other symptoms and they have since died down) during this time I went to the doctors 3 times and they have only tried to give me laxatives that did not work to be honest!
the past 10 days my stools went really narrow, then I caught a cold! Everything I ate made me feel sick for around 2 hours! I was having sharp pains every 5/10 minutes so I took myself to A&E and guess what?? Supposetries and Gaviscon was the answer they gave me! So this led to me ringing my GP rather angry and managed to get a colonoscopy on the 16th of this month.
These symptoms have seemed to die off slightly although the past 2 days I have had small amounts of bright red blood on my paper and feel as though my left bum cheek is bruised? Sore maybe? But not painful.
i just don’t know what to do? Do bowel/rectum symptoms come and go? I am so stressed! I have a ten year old, a 9 month old baby and I get married in 3 weeks this is supposed to be the best time of my life but for some reason I can’t shake the thought of this being the end! Why have I had to fight to be seen?
doctors won’t listen, my family for obvious reasons don’t want to talk about or think about the possibility so I’m currently going through this on my own! Google has made it worse but I can’t help reading things! Cancer has devastated my family and I can’t leave my wife and children I just can’t :( have people had this then the all clear? Doctors say it’s unlikely because of my age but we all know cancer doesn’t care about age.
sorry if this upsets anyone that is currently dealing with this, if I feel symptoms does that mean it’s too late?
richie
