Re: Spiraling about colon cancer
Originally Posted by
boostedcoop
I've battled digestive issues pretty regularly for the past 6 1/2 years ever since I had my gallbladder removed in late 2013. I was put on Colestipol to help with Bile Acid Diarrhea and have been on it on and off ever since. I have taken it regularly for the past year or so. I should also note I had an Ultrasound, CT Scan, and EUS done 6 years ago which were all normal minus the sludgy gallbladder and a funny shaped pancreas (forced a long bout with my HA convincing me I had pancreatic cancer).
Lately, about the last 2-3 months, I have been getting really soft (mushy) and flat stool. Along with this I've developed this full sensation right under my rib cage slightly to the left. The full feeling kinda extends down my side towards my hip. Now, I've had these same symptoms off and on over the past several years but now they seem to be pretty consistent. Yesterday I also developed what feels like soreness in my left hip but more towards my pelvis. I'm trying really hard not to link all of these symptoms together but my HA (and Dr Google) is telling me I have colon cancer that is causing a blockage in my descending colon, which is also pushing on a nerve in my hip area.
I probably have been more stressed over the last couple months as my wife and I are in the process of purchasing our first home and my mother (64) was just diagnosed with Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer, refused chemo and is now in end of life care.
I am so scared that I have colon cancer and its advanced. I feel like im spiraling but also terrified its actual cancer.
Moving house and the imminent death of a parent are major life stresses.
I sometimes have flat stools, mushy stools, formed, and what looks like a walnut whip! This is because my transit time is speeding up due to anxiety. I've been down the road of prodding through my own poo, and being totally obsessed with what exits my bum, and I convinced myself I had bowel cancer, but I didn't. I have IBS.
What Dr Google would tell you if you typed in the words .....and anxiety, would be that anxious people tense their bodies which causes a lot of aches and pains.
It's also possible to take on some of our loved one's symptoms in a psychosomatic way, but my money is on how you are tensing your body and Dr Google messing with your mind.
When people come out with new symptoms on here, I always look for the connection, and in your case it's the health of your mum and moving house.
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