Rectal pain/pressure and spasms

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DarknessEmbraced
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Rectal pain/pressure and spasms

Postby DarknessEmbraced » Wed Aug 04, 2021 8:00 am

What helps you with rectal pressure and spasms? I started my period yesterday. The restoralax/miralax is helping me. Today, I'm feeling a lot of cramping, rectal pressure and spasms which are very painful. I'm having a lot of soft bowel movements. It also feels like it's irritated inside my rectum. I took buscopan earlier but it didn't help. It's not hemorrhoids. All I know is that it's making me miserable! I just want to curl up in a little ball on the floor.
Diagnosed 10/28/14, age 36
Colon Resection 11/20/14, LAR (no illeo)
Stage 2a colon cancer, T3NOMO
Lymph-vascular invasion undetermined
0/22 lymph nodes
No chemo, no radiation
Clear Colonoscopy 04/29/15
NED 10/20/15
Ischemic Colitis 01/21/16
NED 11/10/16
CT Scan moved up due to high CEA 08/21/17
NED 09/25/17
NED 12/21/18
Clear colonoscopy 09/23/19
Clear 5 year scans 11/21/19- Considered cured! :)

skb
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Joined: Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:00 pm

Re: Rectal pain/pressure and spasms

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

DarknessEmbraced
Posts: 3816
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2014 4:54 pm
Facebook Username: Riann Fletcher
Location: New Brunswick, Canada

Re: Rectal pain/pressure and spasms

Postby DarknessEmbraced » Thu Aug 12, 2021 6:11 am

Hi skb,


I've felt rectal pressure since my colon resection in 2014. It has been worse recently. I've cut back on restoralax/miralax from twice a day to once a day. I'm waiting for biopsy results taken during a colonoscopy on July 20th while I was hospitalized. I hope to hear something next week. Thank you.
Diagnosed 10/28/14, age 36
Colon Resection 11/20/14, LAR (no illeo)
Stage 2a colon cancer, T3NOMO
Lymph-vascular invasion undetermined
0/22 lymph nodes
No chemo, no radiation
Clear Colonoscopy 04/29/15
NED 10/20/15
Ischemic Colitis 01/21/16
NED 11/10/16
CT Scan moved up due to high CEA 08/21/17
NED 09/25/17
NED 12/21/18
Clear colonoscopy 09/23/19
Clear 5 year scans 11/21/19- Considered cured! :)


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