weisssoccermom wrote:Kenneth,
I'm going to be blunt here. If some radiologist read my CT scan and it said 'consistent with colon cancer', I wouldn't just say....oh well.....and go on my merry way. I would be RUNNING to the medical doctors to see what could be done. You may not have cancer or you may. Either way, you are quite correct that a biopsy is the only way that anyone can know for sure and that would require a colonoscopy unless the tumor is extremely low down. Still, I wouldn't wait to start feeling badly. I have been a member of this board for over 10 years now and can tell you that there are many people on this board who feel relatively fine but have cancer in more than one part of their body. One thing I learned about cancer is that we never know what to expect with the nasty beast. Don't assume anything with cancer because it isn't a disease that is necessarily predictable. It doesn't follow any rules nor necessarily any set pattern. With cancer, you should always be prepared to expect the unexpected!
IMO, cancer doesn't just go into remission unless either the medical profession intervenes or GOD does. You can take all the herbs you want, eat well, exercise like a fiend and cancer (if you have it) is going to do whatever it wants to do....regardless of how much you may want to believe otherwise. One more thing, the LAST thing you want to do with cancer is let it get a GRIP on you and take hold of your body. Once it it firmly entrenched in your body....once it has had a chance to grow and spread, it is MUCH more difficult to reign it in. While the CT scan may say it is consistent with cancer, there is always a chance (albeit it smaller) that the presumed mass the radiologist saw on the scan may be benign. IF it is, you would definitely want it OUT before it has another day to keep changing- morphing and turning into cancer.
GET TO THE DOCTOR.....make an appointment with a GI.....get a scope and get the dang biopsy....that's the ONLY way you'll know for certain what you are/aren't dealing with.
You asked a question about how long it would take before you go 'downhill'.....well, here's the thing. IF there is a mass (let's assume that's what they saw as opposed, for example, something like diverticulitis), that mass will continue to grow.....it will eventually cause a blockage and then you won't just feel crappy.....you'll be VERY sick and possibly be putting your life at risk.
I doubt you will find many, if any people on this forum who would tell you that it's just ok to let this go and do nothing. Most people on this forum are either fighting to live or have had fought the fight and are in remission. That fight may include chemo or radiation but it has definitely included the first step....getting the scope done and knowing what you are dealing with. It may be cancer or it may be something else....either way....get an answer....get the scope and know for certain!
vaughtower wrote:I am pretty sure that what ever is causing the discomfort did not pop up over night.
vaughtower wrote: . . . If a person does not work with their Allopathic doctors on such an issue and there is no remission, how long does it take before a person starts going "down"? How long does it take for the "discomfort" to become "painful" and possibly debilitating?
weisssoccermom wrote:I'm going to be blunt here [etc . . . .] either way....get an answer....get the scope and know for certain!
weisssoccermom wrote:Kenneth,
I'm going to be blunt here. If some radiologist read my CT scan and it said 'consistent with colon cancer', I wouldn't just say....oh well.....and go on my merry way. I would be RUNNING to the medical doctors to see what could be done. You may not have cancer or you may. Either way, you are quite correct that a biopsy is the only way that anyone can know for sure and that would require a colonoscopy unless the tumor is extremely low down. Still, I wouldn't wait to start feeling badly. I have been a member of this board for over 10 years now and can tell you that there are many people on this board who feel relatively fine but have cancer in more than one part of their body. One thing I learned about cancer is that we never know what to expect with the nasty beast. Don't assume anything with cancer because it isn't a disease that is necessarily predictable. It doesn't follow any rules nor necessarily any set pattern. With cancer, you should always be prepared to expect the unexpected!
IMO, cancer doesn't just go into remission unless either the medical profession intervenes or GOD does. You can take all the herbs you want, eat well, exercise like a fiend and cancer (if you have it) is going to do whatever it wants to do....regardless of how much you may want to believe otherwise. One more thing, the LAST thing you want to do with cancer is let it get a GRIP on you and take hold of your body. Once it it firmly entrenched in your body....once it has had a chance to grow and spread, it is MUCH more difficult to reign it in. While the CT scan may say it is consistent with cancer, there is always a chance (albeit it smaller) that the presumed mass the radiologist saw on the scan may be benign. IF it is, you would definitely want it OUT before it has another day to keep changing- morphing and turning into cancer.
GET TO THE DOCTOR.....make an appointment with a GI.....get a scope and get the dang biopsy....that's the ONLY way you'll know for certain what you are/aren't dealing with.
You asked a question about how long it would take before you go 'downhill'.....well, here's the thing. IF there is a mass (let's assume that's what they saw as opposed, for example, something like diverticulitis), that mass will continue to grow.....it will eventually cause a blockage and then you won't just feel crappy.....you'll be VERY sick and possibly be putting your life at risk.
I doubt you will find many, if any people on this forum who would tell you that it's just ok to let this go and do nothing. Most people on this forum are either fighting to live or have had fought the fight and are in remission. That fight may include chemo or radiation but it has definitely included the first step....getting the scope done and knowing what you are dealing with. It may be cancer or it may be something else....either way....get an answer....get the scope and know for certain!
Volfan wrote:Ditto to what everyone else has said.
The thing I really take exception with is the statement "part of their sales funnel ".
That statement to me comes across like I'm dealing with a shady door to door salesman with my treatment.
From the time I see the Doc to when I sit down in the chemo chair to when I leave I feel like they are doing all they can to help me.
I couldn't ask for more caring doctors, nurses and volunteers during this process.
I could be wrong and if I am I apologize but that statement seemed very disrespectful towards the medical community as a whole.
vaughtower wrote:
Hi... my user name is Kenneth [...] That is as far as I went with the medical profession because I do not like Allopathic doctors. But I have been taking many herbs, improving my diet, and working on therapies and I feel pretty good. I still have energy, I work and do pretty much everything that I did before the cat scan.
vaughtower
used to resent the medical world for only believing symptoms that have been documented and observed in large numbers of patients. Over time I have shed my resentment; science aids my body, and most doctors are my allies. Study and discovery based on empirical evidence is their game, from which I benefit daily. Still, it is scary wall to hit where doctors are stumped by symptoms. Many docs could do a better job of communicating to patients about these dead ends. But anger about being an outlier and animosity towards doctors do not help the situation.
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