Really scared I have colon cancer

[pulisa]

Awesome that’s good to hear that it’s helping you! I wish I could just snap out of thinking this could be colorectal cancer but I just have so many red flags. Constipation/Diarrhea, lower stomach cramps, low back pain, pressure feeling in my bum and fatigue..

These aren't red flags for colorectal cancer. You have low iron stores but are you anaemic with low haemoglobin?

[Hypo27]

They are more the red flags for IBS or IBD or diverticulitis, painless bleeding is one of the first signs of bowel cancer, I've known a few people who have had it and it was their main symptom.

Yeah I’ve read a majority of people around 65 percent have noticeable blood in their poo or when they wipe. The other have the obstruction symptoms cramping, constipation, pain etc. They say the tumors that grow on the right side of the colon cause bleeding most of the time. Left sided tumors usually cause the cramping and everything from partial obstruction because it usually occurs near the rectum. You can also have occult bleeding that’s not visible to the eye right?

[Hypo27]

These aren't red flags for colorectal cancer. You have low iron stores but are you anaemic with low haemoglobin?

No not anemic but like I said before I’m on testosterone injections and they have raised my hemoglobin and hemocrit so could that be masking anemia I wonder?

[Neverending_story]

MAYBE everyone should stop replying............. (just a thought)......

[Carys]

I've certainly decided - that I'm not wasting any more of my life on someone who is intent on wasting their life.

[rainbow]

I've certainly decided - that I'm not wasting any more of my life on someone who is intent on wasting their life.

With respect, I wouldn't say that he is "intent" on wasting his life. I really can identify what he's going through and it's absolute hell! I think it's fantastic for everyone that has managed to get themselves out of the horrendous grip that HA had on them, but we are all different and it's not always going to be possible for some people to overcome this. I still struggle every day and I honestly try to fight the thoughts and obsessions.

[Carys]

Well, I will disagree rainbow - also with respect. I think someone who has, after years (here and on AZ), followed no advice, taken no steps to address their mental health problems and takes no action at all in even minor ways to try and tackle things, is making a choice to continue as they are. Some people do still struggle, some find it hard but those same people (yourself included) at least try. I see no trying, and never have from Hypo, not even in in the most minor of ways to accept he even has HA let alone start addressing things. He won't engage with anybody here in a helpful way, and he is wasting his life. He has been told this fact too.

I still struggle every day and I honestly try to fight the thoughts and obsessions.

This is the point I take from your post, you struggle and 'try', its the 'try' that is needed. People can understand the trying and failing, but not when people don't ever try.


Anyway, I'll comment no further as am leaving this thread well alone now.

[Hypo27]

Well, I will disagree rainbow - also with respect. I think someone who has, after years (here and on AZ), followed no advice, taken no steps to address their mental health problems and takes no action at all in even minor ways to try and tackle things, is making a choice to continue as they are. Some people do still struggle, some find it hard but those same people (yourself included) at least try. I see no trying, and never have from Hypo, not even in in the most minor of ways to accept he even has HA let alone start addressing things. He won't engage with anybody here in a helpful way, and he is wasting his life. He has been told this fact too.



This is the point I take from your post, you struggle and 'try', its the 'try' that is needed. People can understand the trying and failing, but not when people don't ever try.


Anyway, I'll comment no further as am leaving this thread well alone now.

I actually have admitted I have HA i have for years. That doesn’t mean I can’t have physical issues go wrong. I have seen a therapist and will be seeing him again next week so I don’t know how I’m not trying?

[Neverending_story]

I've certainly decided - that I'm not wasting any more of my life on someone who is intent on wasting their life.

'flogging a dead horse" - I have HA BUT there needs to come a time where help is accepted but this whole thread I think by some of the aggressive comments (maybe even not intended out of frustration) is not helping someone with HA - the OP needs to address his HA professionally - no advice has been taken by the OP its the same thing over and over BUT as I say maybe if we all stop replying.........

[Carys]

I don’t know how I’m not trying?

By spending your entire time on here and presumably in life re-enforcing that you are ILL and something needs to be diagnosed - chasing doctors, demanding tests, going to ER every week, arguing with every statement that applies logic, spending your time trying to convince us that you are ill. That is NOT trying. I have seen nothing in this thread, or any of your others that has ever shown that you try and employ any strategies to deal with your mental health problem. Ever. Not once. Not even an inkling of trying to reassure yourself, toning down the catastrophic thinking, or trying to counteract or retrain your thoughts, or even ever agreeing with the rational and logical statements others make to you. Quite the opposite actually. Effort is needed to sort your head out over this, but there is never any evidence of effort.

I actually have admitted I have HA i have for years. That doesn’t mean I can’t have physical issues go wrong.

It’s like I know deep down it really is but I’m hanging onto that tiny thread that could mean it’s not cancer and it’s like I’m trying to my best to convince myself it’s not when it very well could be.

Trust me that’s all I wanna do is get a diagnosis to what is causing my suffering.

Ah, so THIS time, compared to all the other times is IS cancer ? This is NOT trying, it is the same old same old. What on earth does trying mean to you, as nothing has changed that I have seen in these years ? I don't know what your therapist did with you, or even if they are any good, but surely something was explored and taught. Surely you have learnt SOMETHING from them or us over the years, that you could start demonstrating knowing how to use. That is trying. You need to see someone and see someone full time and start really trying - so that you stop wasting time and money.

I know I said I was done with this, couldn't help myself - my fault. Now, I'll leave you to it, as I stand by my assertion that if you want to continue like this I personally won't be hitting my head against the brick wall.