Laura, Tammy Three days into the daily enema routine. Hallelujah. Amen. I have my life back. Doing about a quart and a half of water from the red bag. Today I had two BM's afterwards, but it may have been the ice cream I ate for lunch. (I was lactose intolerant even before rectal cancer). Still find...

Hi Since being diagnosed with stage II RC last January, this thread has been THE most helpful. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I had my takedown a month ago and yesterday was the worst. I was beyond despair -- no BM control, can't leave the house, endless clustering. The discovery of this thread is...

Hi all Thank you so much for your informative and selfless posts. I just got back from a meeting with my surgeon. It's been six weeks since chemoradiation treatment ended. I am hoping for a complete response so that I may be a candidate for TEM, or local excision, rather than radical resection. The ...