Congratulations Mike! That's great! Wishing you well always. I am 9 and a half years since dx. I know what you mean about Dr Google...it only heightened my anxiety but early on it was hard to stay away from it. Was so glad to find this site, it helped me so much. I was paralysed with fear initially ...

I'm pretty sure that a lower endoscopy is a colonoscopy and an upper endoscopy is a gastroscopy. It seems that a lot of people get confused and think that an endoscopy is only an upper endoscopy - an endoscopy also includes colonoscopies. Is your daughter still passing blood - if not, it is highly u...

Diane, I miss her too I am so sad.

Fear will overwhelm us, but only if we let it. Just remember her words to you. Be strong.

Sending love and strength and wishing you well always ❤️ xx

Hello, I just wanted to reply because I remember how scared I was around my diagnosis over nine years ago and I am still here. My kids were 12 and 9 and I was terrified that I was going to die and not be there for them. I also had a spot on my liver but a MRI confirmed that it was a cyst. I had colo...

I am so very sad to learn that our dear Bev passed away. It is hard to believe. It was not cancer related, as far as I am aware, as she had been NED for a long time. I think that her passing was related to her diabetes. I am so sad. Bev was my rock. She was so smart, kind, strong, knowledgeable and ...

Hi there, Initially, it seemed to be the only thing I thought about....it was always there, the worry, what if it comes back? However, with time it did get better. I remember thinking, wow, I haven't thought about cancer for a few hours...but I think that that was quite a few months after I finished...

Hi Lisa, First of all, don't be too hard on yourself for not having a colonoscopy earlier, what's done is done. I had a colonoscopy nine years ago due to blood in my stool. My GI doc knew straight away that my tumor was cancer by the look of it. My surgeon saw me in the recovery room and I was refer...

Mine wasn't a pump as such. It looked like a baby's bottle with a condom inside :) It made no noise. At night I wore it in a fanny pack around my hips quite loosely. I could still sleep on my side if I wanted too. I was given a steroid just prior to my chemo treatments and this is what would keep me...

You need another opinion and someone who will treat you aggressively. I'm not sure where you are but I feel that you need to do this or have someone help you with it, especially as you are so young. I've heard lots of stories where one doctor offers no hope but another will.

On the morning show on television here, a couple of weeks ago, there was a segment about the Paleo diet with Pete Evans and they talked about a documentary called The Magic Pill. I have been looking into doing Paleo only because I have put on weight and I feel that I am eating too many carbs. Anyway...

There have been discussions on here in the past about sugar and cancer. I thought that avoiding sugar, or adopting a low carb diet, would not necessarily lower your cancer risk or help as a treatment. Just wondering what people thought about this https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/673f/e1fa28d32b3ba76...

Hi Diane, I was diagnosed in May 2009. I don't visit or post here much anymore, but try and help when I can and still check in. Unfortunately, many who I connected with on here are no longer around. It has been a wonderful resource and place to find support, inspiration, knowledge and understanding....

A cancer diagnosis is extremely unsettling.Have you just found all that out from your current stay in hospital? What a lot to take in. My heart goes out to you at this time especially while you take it all in and find information on treatment etc. Have you had surgery as yet? Best wishes to you

I had 12 treatments of FOLFIRI. Never had FOLFOX. I was told that irinotecan is harsher on the digestive tract, harder on neutrophils and more hair loss. I didn't really have diarrhoea but apparently it is quite common. I had bad nausea from day 1 to day 3. I also had a "funny" feeling in ...

Hi Capri, I was diagnosed at age 44 and had a similar diagnosis to your son. Males are a bit different to us females and tend to just get on with things, my husband is like this anyway. I was paralysed with fear at times and the best thing for me was feeling "normal" and doing "normal...