glowworm
01-11-10, 12:31
Hi - I posted a couple of months ago, as I was worried about my husband's abdo pains. We just had a 3-week holiday and he continued to have the pains for the first week, then they went away for the other two weeks, but returned when we got back.
He went to the doctor last week and he gave his abdomen a good prod, then gave him 3 pots for stool samples over 3 consecutive days, to check for occult blood. That's good, but I don't understand why he wasn't sent for a blood test as well. Also, the doctor told him to come back in a month, when he'd probably order a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy to check his bowel. Why do we have to wait that long? (It'll probably be two months from now before they actually do it.) I won't be able to relax till he's been properly checked out!
I'm just so terrified he's got cancer and I'm already starting to feel what it'd be like to lose him. It's intolerable! All I need is some kind of reassurance to help me get through the next few weeks. Should I be reassured by the fact that the doctor didn't order a scope straight away? By the way, he's 41, which I know isn't very old, but he does have bowel cancer in the family. I wish I could just think it's likely to be IBS, but his symptoms don't seem to match the usual pattern (his pains, sometimes accompanied by nausea, tend to come on after a bowel movement, rather than being relieved by one). The pains don't necessarily happen every day. He has had this on and off for a few years, but it does seem to have got worse lately.
If anyone has any experience of this sort of problem, please please let me know!
Thanks in advance ...
He went to the doctor last week and he gave his abdomen a good prod, then gave him 3 pots for stool samples over 3 consecutive days, to check for occult blood. That's good, but I don't understand why he wasn't sent for a blood test as well. Also, the doctor told him to come back in a month, when he'd probably order a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy to check his bowel. Why do we have to wait that long? (It'll probably be two months from now before they actually do it.) I won't be able to relax till he's been properly checked out!
I'm just so terrified he's got cancer and I'm already starting to feel what it'd be like to lose him. It's intolerable! All I need is some kind of reassurance to help me get through the next few weeks. Should I be reassured by the fact that the doctor didn't order a scope straight away? By the way, he's 41, which I know isn't very old, but he does have bowel cancer in the family. I wish I could just think it's likely to be IBS, but his symptoms don't seem to match the usual pattern (his pains, sometimes accompanied by nausea, tend to come on after a bowel movement, rather than being relieved by one). The pains don't necessarily happen every day. He has had this on and off for a few years, but it does seem to have got worse lately.
If anyone has any experience of this sort of problem, please please let me know!
Thanks in advance ...