Postby skb » Mon Aug 09, 2021 1:12 pm
Hi DarknessEmbraced,
I have felt rectal pressure only when I had a tumor in there. From your signature, it appears that you have been cured and disease-free for about 5 years. Congratulations.
If this is a new development, it is probably best to consult your GI doctor and get a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy to be sure there is no new tumor growth.
Until then, to relieve symptoms, perhaps eat light and have more fluid intake. Sorry I know this is not very helpful but I could talk only from my experience
Skb
3/21/17: Dx T3N0M0-mid rectal 4.5cm
4/18 to 5/22/17: chemoradiation- Xeloda and daily radiation (25 doses)
6/28/17: clean biopsy, clean scans
8/17: MRI - no evidence of tumor, no surgery, starts wait and watch
8/17 to 12/17: Folfox
8/19 VATS - 1cm lung nodule
7/17/21- Clean CT, CEA 15.6 !
8/24/21- PET , biopsy finds met along obturator lymph nodes
10/1/21- Surgery , 12 rounds of FOLFIRI -ended 4/22
4/15/22, 9/6/22. 1/20/23- Clean scan, normal CEA
10/23- four sub-centimeter lung nodules, all PET negative