I need to ask a questions to people who have had or have got bowl cancer?

Question

What is your symptoms or what was your symptoms before you were diagnosed? I am almost 38 years old, and in 2005 early unexpectantly got red diarea which was very unusual and filled the bowl with it, and it left me feeling unwell for a few days after. It happened again 3-4months later the same red diarea filling the bowl, and it happed again 3-4 months after that too,so the whole of 2005 every few months a experienced that. The specialist told me it was not normal and recomended a colonoscopy. By the time I went to make an appointment the computors were shut down. And I forgot all about it. The other day my stuff had dark red blood in most of the stuff, and it looked like dark red poo. My stuff has changed shape, and has gotten thinner. I am getting anemic and find it hard to walk up stars without feeling fatigued. My Heamatocrit is low. I have a feeling that there is something seriously wrong. If am am not constepated, then I am pooing out stuff with dark red blood. I will be getting

a colonoscopy soon, and I am not worried as if it is serious I know where I will be going, I will be going home to glory. I have left it 2 years already. I am looking pale and run down. The cancer institute told me I have all the sypmptoms of bowl cancer. So please tell me what sypmtoms you got before you were diagnosed with bowl cancer?

Answer 1

Your description of the symptoms seems to fit several other diseases including ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease. It is a chronic condition and can include the entire large and small intestine depending upon the severity of the disease. Symtoms include but are not limited to abdominal pain, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding. A gastroentrologist should be able to investigate this further.

Ulcerative Colitis
http://www.medicinenet.com/ulcerative_colitis/article.htm

Another possible disease that fits your symptoms is Crohns Disease (Colitis) which can affect the entire digestive system:
http://www.medicinenet.com/crohns_disease/article.htm

You definitely should not ignore this as it is treatable. Even if it turns out to be cancer you should be taking care of your body. Cancer is no longer a death sentence as there is treatment for all types and stages. It's just easier to treat in the early stages.

Answer 2

The diarhhoea is because the tumour affects the natural movements of the bowel and the colon, meaning that it is commonly evacuated more often than it should be. The blood in the diarrhoea, if it is fresh red, is because of the location of the tumour, as is the mucus. Tumours are often quite friable, and have a large blood supply. It is common for them to bleed into the lumen of the bowel (the space inside the colon) and this comes out mixed with the stool. It is common in tumours of the rectum, recto sigmoid and sigmoid colon, but less common in tumours from the caecum through to the splenic flexure. Here the blood has time to break down and will become much darker, and often black, creating almost tar like stools. (This isn't just a sign of cancer, it can be caused by bleeding throughout the GI tract). Going back to the mucus, mucus is secreted by the bowel anyway to help smooth transit of stools, but many adenocarcinoma's (which are most bowel cancers) of the bowel are mucin secreting, which means they produce even more. This is often why again the tumours in the lower bowel to the rectum have this as a more standard symptom. People will cancer, not just colonic in nature, experience fatigue and lethargy, and it is because cancer has a very fast metabolism. The cancer needs a lot of nutrients to grow, and it takes them at the expense at the rest of the body. Many people feel unwell and lose their appetite, which just exacerbates this, as they are ingesting less nutrients, but the tumour still feeds itself. The sufferer thus often feels drained of energy. Often after colonic resection, the patient (despite the effects of the operation) will feel remarkably better.

Answer 3

From the National Cancer Institute, the 7 warning signs of cancer are--

C- Change in bowel or bladder habits

A- A sore that does not heal

U- Unusual bleeding or discharge

T- Thickening or lump in breast or elsewhere

I- Indigestion or Dysphagia (difficult or painful swallowing)

O- Obvious change in wart or mole

N- Nagging cough or hoarseness

Five hundred years ago, people said the world was flat. Today, people say that if the FDA and AMA haven't blessed something, it can't be real good. Well, here's something I know to be real AND good. It's a little different take on cancer treatment--

In 1990, I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma, stage 3-B, but I've survived. My doctors were great people, but they were limited to surgery, chemo and radiation by profitable AMA treatment policy. During the year in treatment, I started learning about alternative medicine. I'm a retired engineer, and this is what I've pieced together--our IMMUNE SYSTEMS become weakened by poor nutrition, lack of exercise and reduced oxygen. Once that happens, our body becomes vulnerable to common STRESSORS. Stressors can be environmental, like viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, food additives, electromagnetic waves or pollution. They can be internal things like emotional or job stress, or poisonous people in our lives. Aging is also a contributing factor. So this means:

WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEM + STRESSORS = DISEASE (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.)

Our bodies have 60 trillion--yes, trillion--cells, and there are always some mutating into cancer cells, but a healthy immune system kills them before they have a chance to get a foothold in the body.

It takes a LONG time, usually, or a high level of stressors, to weaken the immune system to the point where it won't do its job, but once cancer has formed, it will generally spread rapidly.

THIS IS IMPORTANT! There are ways to BEAT cancer that are currently being used in Europe and around the world, and there are some great books on the subject. I know because I've read about 50 of them from cover to cover. Here's a list of the best ones. Some are out of print and getting hard to find--

"The Cure for All Cancers", ISBN 0963632825
"The Cure for All Advanced Cancers", ISBN 1890035165
"A Cancer Therapy", ISBN 0882681052
"Oxygen Therapies", ISBN 0962052701
"Hydrogen Peroxide--Medical Miracle", ISBN 1885236077
"The Natural Cure for Cancer--Germanium", ISBN 0533071410
"Killing Cancer", ISBN 0705000966
"Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About", ISBN 0975599518

I know of people whose cancer has 'spontaneously remitted' (WENT AWAY for no known reason) AFTER they went on programs of herbs and nutrition to restart their immune systems.

You and your family must look out for yourselves to stand a chance of being healthy. This is not a joke, and I'm not selling anything--just trying to help.
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Answer 4

My heart goes out to you. But you do need to take action. My husband's symptoms were
the same and he was checked immediately. He told the Dr. about a pain he had in his side
and the Dr. checked it. It turned out to be non-hodgkins lymphoma. Having a colonoscopy is a wise thing to do. My husband and I both know where we will be going but God expects us to do our part, too. I had the same problem and had a colonoscopy. I had polyps and tons of adhesions from all the surgeries. I wish you the very best. Take care of yourself.
God bless you.