CF_69 wrote:Did you have a colonoscopy? If not, get one.
KimT wrote:We are not doctors and it would be irresponsible for us to speculate on what is going on with you.
Take all this information you have gathered about your symptoms and request a colonoscopy. Could be something, could be nothing. But we are not qualified to guess on your situation. We are just cancer survivors or loved ones of survivors.
Good luck.
ubiyca wrote:No, thats about the only test they haven't done yet.
I'm afraid of having one fearing the results!
Does what I have described sound like cancer or alarming?CF_69 wrote:Did you have a colonoscopy? If not, get one.
KimT wrote:A colonoscopy is the only thing that will definitely diagnose whether or not you have cancer or another lower gi problem. You need to get one if you are that concerned. Asking cancer patients about their experience isn’t going to help you. We cannot diagnose you or help you. Follow up with your doctor and present all the symptoms you have been having over the past couple of years.
ubiyca wrote:Hello!
I know that you guys are not doctors but as I've seen others ask questions here I thought I might do the same.
I am a 38 year old male.
I have had problems with what started as stomach problems since 2013, which started more as burpings, and stomach sounds growlings, etc. due to a change in workplace where I felt the stress was to big for me, and This was 2013. [...] This was going on from about 2014-2017. My first doctors visit was 2014 and they took weight, my hemoglobin (150) and also FIT-stool test x3, calprotectin and also liver tests and stool tests to check for celiac disease and giardia, h-pylori. Everything came back normal.
Then in 2017 the "harder stool", which then was bristol type 4 went to looser stool, that is after almost 4 years since the symptoms started. Since the stool got looser, more like bristol type 5 and 6 (rarely watery/like "sauce") the bleeding when i wiped stopped I guess because it didn't burst open my irritation around my red anal opening area.
I have now been symtomatic for 6-7 years, and last 2 years the stool has been loose in the sense that it's semi-formed, leave skid marks in the bowl 1-4 times every morning first 1-2 hours before breakfast.
During these years I've had stool FIT-test x3 first 2014, then another september 2017 and last time was this year 2019 in january. Never found any blood here. My hemoglobin january (after 6 years of more or less daily symptoms) was 150, also weight about the same. They also checked liver ALAT, ALP, and pancreatic-amylas, creatinine, and SR/CRP. Everything within normal range. I did a rectoscopy and proctoscopy in the late 2017 which came back normal without fissures or haemoroids.
MY QUESTION to you kind people is, what are the chances of having cancer? When you read the internet it says that most don't have symptoms in early stage, and once they get them it might be advanced stage or stage 3 atleast. I've had my problems with daily symptoms 6-7 years now, STILL with normal labs. I never seen blood in my stool either, or on the stool. Wouldn't I be dead now? I'm a hypochondriac no doubt about it.
/dan
I never seen blood in my stool either, or on the stool
Over the coming years I started to get more bowel problems, which was on the more constipated side, it stained and hurt sometimes
when the first "turd" was to come out and also the paper had red streaks. This was going on from about 2014-2017.
Lee wrote:[quote="KimT"
Truth be know, your issues could be caused my many things, cancer is just one possibility, and the one that most people assume. Does colon cancer run in your family? How old are you?
Get scoped, take it from there. "IF" it is indeed cancer, you will find a wealth of information and support here. Know that many people on this board are beating it today.
Good luck,
Lee
Maggie Nell wrote:ubiyca wrote:Hello!
Perhaps when you crap the bed in the early a.m. because you can't 'hold' until you get to the toilet, THAT will be regarded as a 'change in bowel habits'.
ubiyca wrote:
It's funny, because I have gasses all day long, it seems they are trapped but once this morning thing starts often I get like a farting
festival, I can fart 4-5 times before it's time for "number 2". I guess it's a good thing but it's also a new thing. Very strange.
Maggie Nell wrote:ubiyca wrote:
It's funny, because I have gasses all day long, it seems they are trapped but once this morning thing starts often I get like a farting
festival, I can fart 4-5 times before it's time for "number 2". I guess it's a good thing but it's also a new thing. Very strange.
Can you hear the drums Fernando....
Lee wrote:
And the comment from Maggie is from a song, a long time ago.
Lee
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