Have I got rectal cancer?

[BlueIris]

The difference being, he'll have lived his life and you'll have sat around thinking about cancer. WHICH YOU DON'T HAVE.

[KrankerMann]

Hi Toby
Just want to chime in here. It's very apparent that this thread is going nowhere. I'm unsure of which tests you've had so far (you have seen a gastro doctor haven't you?) but you seem to be deep in the bowel cancer badlands. The gastro's advice doesn't seem to have helped you at all. If you want the colonoscopy so bad, either request it from your doctor or pay for it yourself. From what I've read here there's very little to be said that hasn't been said before. However, I do believe you've seen a gastro doctor and had tests done by them, so I wouldn't be surprised if you had to put your hand in your pocket yourself.

[Toby2000]

Hi Toby
Just want to chime in here. It's very apparent that this thread is going nowhere. I'm unsure of which tests you've had so far (you have seen a gastro doctor haven't you?) but you seem to be deep in the bowel cancer badlands. The gastro's advice doesn't seem to have helped you at all. If you want the colonoscopy so bad, either request it from your doctor or pay for it yourself. From what I've read here there's very little to be said that hasn't been said before. However, I do believe you've seen a gastro doctor and had tests done by them, so I wouldn't be surprised if you had to put your hand in your pocket yourself.

I know this is the only way forward.

I went to the doctors about 3 weeks ago, maybe almost a month, after the last time I'd seen blood due to a hard stool and holding it in for like 40 minutes after eating LOADS over the 24 hours before that, and there I asked for a camera test but she said she couldn't because I didn't meet the criteria. She explained however that a rigid sigmoidoscopy, which I was given, would've found the source of the non mixed in blood that I've been seeing and all it found was a hemorrhoid. And that goes up 25 cm in the bowel. She said anything non-hemorrhoid related would make the stool turn a different colour but I don't believe this to be true, at least not all the time. Maybe if the tumour was in the ascending or traverse colon where the blood would mix in with the brown bile, but in the sigmoid colon the stool is already colored so it's logical to think I could have a tumour in the sigmoid colon and still have blood on my stools, not mixed in. But it wouldn't be in my lower sigmoid colon (25cm into the bowel) because the specialist checked.

So yeah I'm convinced my tumor is somewhere in the sigmoid colon but a little further up, although in the past I have directly bled on to the paper which would mean the source is in the rectum.. hemorrhoids. I'm willing to accept that sometimes the blood is due to hemorrhoids but the blood I saw the other day was darker... I was straining a lot and my an*s felt a bit heavy so the blood was probably rushing down there etc but it seemed like a more dull neutral red rather than bright or rich red like hemorrhoids produce? So I'm scared that at the very least I have a polyp

Sorry for rambling.. but yes you're right. The only way to end this is to fight for a camera test which I'll continue doing as long as I keep seeing blood. If I have to I'll get a job to save up for a sigmoidoscopy rather than dig into my life savings because my dad would not let that happen

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I really appreciate it

[Scass]

Oh my gosh Toby, please get a job so you can pay for your own colonoscopy!

Perhaps it’s time to have that follow up appointment with your GP?


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[Toby2000]

Oh my gosh Toby, please get a job so you can pay for your own colonoscopy!

Perhaps it’s time to have that follow up appointment with your GP?


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Do you think I should?

& that doctor is in on Tuesdays so I'll have to go in next week on Tuesday

[Toby2000]

I can't do this anymore. I really can't. My life at home is currently sh*tty enough (excuse the pun) without this on top of it all. It makes me realise how pointless my life is, it's already depressing but then this makes me feel like it's not worth even trying to pull myself out of it because I'm so sure that I'm dying of cancer

I really hate my family too aside from my grandparents and relatives who I have no reason to hate and I get along with like my Aunts and Uncles.

I'm sorry, this has gone off topic. I just can't believe I'm stuck in this pit, why me? I'm 18, I shouldn't be seeing blood every few weeks

[BlueIris]

However, multiple doctors have told you it's not a big deal, it's just a mildly unpleasant something that happens.

[nomorepanic]

You are the only one that can change things Toby - we are all responsible for our own health so you have to decide what to do.

How do you know what you are seeing is actual dark blood - you are not eating it again are you ?

You have had the tests, you had a diagnosis now you have to move on with life.

[MyNameIsTerry]

I know this is the only way forward.

I went to the doctors about 3 weeks ago, maybe almost a month, after the last time I'd seen blood due to a hard stool and holding it in for like 40 minutes after eating LOADS over the 24 hours before that, and there I asked for a camera test but she said she couldn't because I didn't meet the criteria. She explained however that a rigid sigmoidoscopy, which I was given, would've found the source of the non mixed in blood that I've been seeing and all it found was a hemorrhoid. And that goes up 25 cm in the bowel. She said anything non-hemorrhoid related would make the stool turn a different colour but I don't believe this to be true, at least not all the time. Maybe if the tumour was in the ascending or traverse colon where the blood would mix in with the brown bile, but in the sigmoid colon the stool is already colored so it's logical to think I could have a tumour in the sigmoid colon and still have blood on my stools, not mixed in. But it wouldn't be in my lower sigmoid colon (25cm into the bowel) because the specialist checked.

So yeah I'm convinced my tumor is somewhere in the sigmoid colon but a little further up, although in the past I have directly bled on to the paper which would mean the source is in the rectum.. hemorrhoids. I'm willing to accept that sometimes the blood is due to hemorrhoids but the blood I saw the other day was darker... I was straining a lot and my an*s felt a bit heavy so the blood was probably rushing down there etc but it seemed like a more dull neutral red rather than bright or rich red like hemorrhoids produce? So I'm scared that at the very least I have a polyp

Sorry for rambling.. but yes you're right. The only way to end this is to fight for a camera test which I'll continue doing as long as I keep seeing blood. If I have to I'll get a job to save up for a sigmoidoscopy rather than dig into my life savings because my dad would not let that happen

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I really appreciate it

Don't you think a highly trained specialist doctor has been trained in what they are going to see in their specialism? I wonder how many thousands of patients she has seen over the course of one year alone, some of them she has even diagnosed with cancer?

[MyNameIsTerry]

Found it. I'll give it a go later.

I'm really scared now because I saw a Daily Mail article about a load of younger people who all had symptoms of bowel cancer for years (sometimes 5) before getting diagnosed with it, including bleeding

I feel like if I just sit here things are going to get so much worse, I need a sigmoidoscopy ASAP. I can't live like this



4 years... that scares me to know I could be stuck like this for FOUR YEARS. I've barely managed one and I'm still in pieces

You have to be very careful with stories like this. Where is the corroboration from the medical community? How do you know what they are saying is agreed by them?

The article goes on about how these healthy people got cancer. Well that's hardly news is it? Anyone can get cancer. You can eat & train the cleanest of everyone on planet earth and you may still get it...or get run over by a bus. The article is to scare people. How many people, healthy or unhealthy, didn't get cancer? How many millions?

I haven't read more than a couple of the stories on that article but I find myself questioning how one woman had some IBS symptoms and then 5 years later has more severe symptoms that lead to a diagnosis. That easily looks lie two separate events.