Hi all,
I have so many health worries and I feel like I have nobody to talk to them about. I actually feel suicidal at the moment. I am in total despair.
First of all I will just say that there is a history of colon cancer in my family. My aunt had it and a number of my father's first cousins had it. I am 31 years old. I had a baby 9 weeks ago. C section under general anaesthetic. Afterwards, I suffered a paralytic ileus. My bowel went in to shock and stopped working. I had a nasogastric tube, was put fasting and given laxatives, and this rectified itself after a few days. I had a CT scan and an ultrasound at the time and this is how they diagnosed the paralytic ileus.
17 days later I was admitted to hospital with severe pain on my right hand side. Another CT scan showed inflammation of the colon, or 'colitis'. I was treated with antibiotics and put fasting for 6 days and the pain went away
A week later I had another CT scan as the pain was back, albeit not half as bad. This scan showed some slight inflammation but it was much improved.
Up until I had my baby, my bowel movements were always completely normal. I never noticed any diarrhea, constipation or blood in the stool.
After I had the baby, my bowel movements were different, but I put that down to all the fasting I was doing and the low fibre diet I was on to counteract the colitis.
Now, I have had diarrhea for the last 5 days and twice today I have had blood and mucous in stool. A totally new occurrence.
I am so so terrified that I have colon cancer and that I am not going to live to see my newborn daughter grow up.
What I am wondering is this. Would the doctors and surgeons have spotted cancer on any of the 3 CT scans I have had done over the last 9 weeks? I have also had 2 ultrasounds and numerous blood tests. I am having a colonoscopy in four weeks but would love for my mind to be put at ease before then. I can't stop crying and am afraid to fall in love with my daughter too deeply in case I have to be serperated from her for a long period of time due to illness, hospitalisation or death.
I am hoping that all I will be diagnosed with is ulcerative colitis or crohns and not cancer.
What do you all think?
Thank you
