What is your colorectal cancer diagnosis story? Let's share!

Colorectal Cancer does not cause symptoms right away, and the symptoms that it initially causes may not alarm individuals to seek further medical advice.

Some of these initial symptoms - that may not cause one immediate alarm - could be a change in bowel habits: diarrhea, consipation, etc; a feeling of needing to have a bowler movement; and cramping or abdominal pain.

However, there can often be other symptoms.

What were your initial symptoms that made you question that something may not be right?

After your initial symptoms, how soon did you begin to seek medical advice?

I had diaredia and losing weight drastically it voes up and down I've been on radiation treatment and are going through second round of so . chemo I've do you three so far put me in the hospital two times for c colostomy I've also had two pet cat scan waiting for Dr to come this morning Angela faubion

Thanks

As @angelworm7‍  said diarreia was a first sign, but the major sign was when it turned into passing blood... the exams were basically confirmation of what the doctors already said was likely.

Surgery led to need for another surgery to fix an issue that arose with my bowel. 

Thank you for sharing Angela.... how did your recent cat scan go?

For me I had no symptoms at all and even had a colonoscopy done eight years before showing nothing.

Then I thought I needed to have a bowel movement but when I sat on the toilet blood poured out. I couldn't stop the bleeding and quickly felt like I was going to pass out. A tumor had grew so large it ruptured my colon causing me to bleed internally.

I started losing weight was at 146lbs and had diahreea and saw a doctor was very small in stomach they said I was lucky to have  gotten that far they recommend a colostomy test and the results confirm that I had rectuall cancer stage 4going through next chemo treatment asoc next tuTuesT don't know how many but their going to do another cat scan and find out what is going on with my tumor and tissue inside of tumor Angela

@angelworm7 I pray it all goes Good for you. Please let me no what your test results show.

Alyce Thorning

I'm doing 12 more chemo treatments and in between the treatment I should have another pet scan some where along the line hope it hasn't changed yet thanks angelworm

Hello everyone, 

How are you today? 

I thought I would revive this discussion so we can all get to know one another better!

What was your diagnosis experience like? How old were you when you were diagnosed? What symptoms were you having that let you know something was wrong? What treatments have you undergone? How are you doing today? 
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Feel free to introduce yourself and share you story here! 

Take care,
Courtney

Hi, I was diagnosed with Stage 2 B colon cancer in 2017, had surgery,chemo, did really good until the latter part of 2019, developed 3 incisional hernias,had them taken care of May 2020, it was massive surgery and I have had a tie recovering, I hope it will get better soon, I still don't have an appetite, hardly no energy, probably because I am a little depressed, I don't go anywhere because of the pandemic, I do work from home so that's a help, but I just feel drained and just not sure how to get out of this funk I am in. Anyone got any ideas?