Hey all, So, the Oxaliplatin isn't working anymore, so they're going to be starting me on Irenotecan as well as the Avastin and Xeloda that I've been on. I've been continuing to work full time up to now, but I'm concerned about it when Irene kicks in. Between the diarrhea and the fatigue, it sounds ...

Okay, so. Stage IV rectal cancer w/lung mets, no surgeries, just radiation & chemo, diagnosed ~2.5 years ago. Here's my problem: I seem to have lost strength entirely in my sphincter muscles. When my upper colon decides it's time to move a "package" along, I have to be able to recogniz...

So I've been on folfox from July of last year (dx was in June) until Thanksgiving - it was doing a kickass job of killing the cancer but it was giving me really bad neuropathy so the doctor took me off of it at around Thanksgiving in hopes that the neuropathy would go away - but it's only gotten wor...

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Still new at this CRC business... So I had/have this massive tumor on the corner of Rectum & Colon that was almost blocking things entirely...they put me on 10 days of Radiation prior to starting chemo, to try to shrink the tumor to prevent a full obstruction. Since I started radiation (it's don...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oOOOkay. So. I had been being an idiot and ignoring the blood in my stool and the changes in bowel habits for quite literally 5 months. So on 6/8 I *finally* get a colonoscopy - and the find a big-ass tumor (whi...