Hi, my name is Cody. I am 19 and will be 20 in January. A few months ago i had this fullness feeling or pain in my upper rectum. Along with the fullness i noticed it was hard to pass stool, unless i just felt like i needed to pass stool. But sometimes i needed it and i find it was hard to pass stool. I went to the doctor and we thought it might be my prostate causing me the pain, that or internal hemmorhoids. So he gave me some anti biotics for the prostate, and cortizone for internal hemmorhoids, whichever was the case. By the second night of medication my symptoms went away, and i found i was able to pass stools normaly. I was fine for atleast 6 weeks after i was done with the medication. Then i found it difficult to pass stool again. So i went back to him told him i was kind of feeling the upper fullness feeling again, and that it was hard to pass stools, and that the day before my stools were thin. So he set me up an appointment to get a colonoscopy soon. But what i forgot to tell him is that my stool is not always thin. That is seldom actully. Most of the time it comes out quite normal, and sometimes its not hard to pass. Ive been worrying myself sick thinking this might be rectal cancer or something. But he told me that would be rare at my age. And i will add that neither my parents or my parents parents had colorectal issues. My blood tests came out normal, and my stool tests were negative. Im just so afraid this might be something serious, it is literaly driving me insane to the point where i dream about it. What could this be? I will say that hemmorhoid suppositories and the cortizone he gave would make that fullness feeling or pain go away..but i dont think i have hemmorhoids anymore. Advice please. Will be very much appriciated.
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This is not constipation, and sometimes the stool doesnt go all the way into the rectum..and with some effort it will. The stool is not thin, but not completely round, wether soft or hard. And a few months ago i had what looked like a small blood clot mixed in with diarrhea that was bright red. But it only happened once, never happened since. And havent had diarrhea since.
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They did not check for blood in stool. Just for bacteria. And something called wright stain. Which im not sure if its to check for blood or not. But nothing on the paper said check for FOBT..fecal occult blood test.

hi yester day i pooped and it looked flat and i searched up and flat (ribbon poop) mean you could have cancer but no one in my family has had it
and i feel embrassed to tell my parents should i go check it out or change my diet

1. How did you found out that you got the cancer?

2. When you first got the Cancer, how did you manage your eating habit?

3. What foods are you eating to cure it?

(THis questions are for the Food and Nutrition Science course)
Please kindly add your name or be know anymously.

1. How did you found out that you got the cancer?

2. When you first got the Cancer, how did you manage your eating habit?

3. What foods are you eating to cure it?

(THis questions are for the Food and Nutrition Science course)
Please kindly add your name or be know anymously.

I’m a 26 year old female with three kids. I’ve had trouble with GI/rectal bleeding for about seven years but it seems to have worsened to include abdominal pain. I have a GI appointment next week but I just learned, today, that my blood test shows an abnormally high sed rate. I’m concerned that this increases the likelihood of cancer. My follow up w/ my GP is one week after my GI appointment. Should I be pushing for faster treatment? Please no sarcastic remarks. I know it is an embarrassing area and it is a real pain in the @$$…trust me I’ve already gone over all the bad jokes in my own mind. I really need good opinions from folks. Thanks!
I just saw the doctor for this recently. I’m just trying to find out why I’m bleeding and hurting at this point. Nothing has been diagnosed yet. I’m a little antsy as my insurance coverage may end in Feb.

I understand that obesity is one of the highest risk factors of developing colorectal cancer, but I don’t understand why. I’ve researched a little and can’t find an answer.
Thanks for the contributions! More detail can be added though, I’m a nursing student, so no need to be super basic! Thanks

are you at greater risk of cancer redeveloping after having cancerous polyps removed? and are you likely to need chemotherapy afterward?
.. the situation i am wondering about is if two colonoscopies did not get out all of the cancer and surgery is issued to take out a section of the large intestine
there were a lot of polyps and ones too large to remove without surgery

since her successful surgery she is cancer free. However since the surgery about a hour or so after eating she has diarrhea. It does stop on its own,.She is afraid to go any where now to breakfast or whatever for fear she’ll have an accident. Anyone ever heard of this problem??????

My friend Samm has been having those three symptoms. She thinks it’s either cancer or internal bleeding, but there’s got to be other causes of those three things, right? Any knowledge on these?

I’m taking a statistics class and working on some of the homework, and I’ve come to what seems like a trick question to me:

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2. To diagnose colorectal cancer, the Hemoccult test- among others- is conducted to detect occult blood in the stool. This test is used from a particular age on, but also in routine screening for early detection of colorectal cancer. Imagine you conduct a screening using the Hemoccult test in a certain region. For symptom-free people over 50 years old who participate in screening using the Hemoccult test, the following information is available for this region:
The probability that one of these people has colorectal cancer is 1.3%. If a person has colorectal cancer, the probability is 90% that the person will have a positive hemoccult test. If a person does not have colorectal cancer, the probability is 5% that the person will have a positive hemoccult test.
a. What is the probability that a randomly chosen person in the mentioned category does not have colorectal cancer and then has a positive Hemoccult test? Write the question using function notation. Show your work.
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I want to say that the answer is 5% due to the fact that it clearly states " If a person does not have colorectal cancer, the probability is 5% that the person will have a positive hemoccult test", but why would the textbook ask the question if the answer’s right there? It’s an even problem too, which means I can’t check the back of the book to get an idea if I’m right or not.

In my attempt to solve the problem, I started out using the P(B|A) = P(A and B)/P(A) formula, but using the values of (1 – .013) as the top, and .05 as the bottom gives an answer that doesn’t make sense. Should I flip them around? As in, (.05)/(1-.013), or am I going about this entirely the wrong way?

I am 15 years old and I don’t have a family history of cancer but i was worried about whether i have colorectal cancer.So what are my chances of getting colorectal cancer?

She is 79 yrs old. After surgery they did not remove the large mass on her sigmoid colon because it was to vascular to remove and she would more than likely bleed to death if they tried. It will be one week since her surgery and she is still very very weak, gets out of breath with us daughters helping her to bathroom. Even when they gave her a portable pottychair to use she gets severely cold and clammy, extramely nausous, shivers, very rapid heartbeat, and has a hard time taking a breath. When she tries to speak to us during these attacks of her sitting up moving around, she is so winded and it takes so much just to finish a single sentence. Mom is very anemic and her heme count dropped to a 7.2 she will not accept any blood transfusuions due to her beliefs religious wise and the past few days docs given her iron pills and that has raised her count to a 9.4 but its still low…. Her tummy is still so very bloated and her urin output is not that much even though they are pumping her with several IV fluid bags. Could it be the cancer is just wiping her out she is not on any chemo yet. We are trying to figure out WHY she is so winded, weak and slightly feverish at times … clammy, chills… Could it be her heart they have not noticed yet?.. OR is this a common reaction after this type of surgery? We are aware that the Doctors told us without the surgery, she probly wouldnt have lived more than 2 weeks. But since she had the surgery, it may extend her time who knows.. is this symptoms of the end her weakness?? They placed her on a clear diet but she does not eat any of that.. no broth jello or anything but a sip of water or two thats it. she has been without food for 14 days now… but what can we do or possibly suggest to the doctors do to help her in this situation? Cancer has masestize to her liver and lungs i forgot to mention above. Anyone who has had a loved one with the same symptoms that she is going through please let me know how I can help her, what can we do, and how much longer did they live after going through these symptoms after surgery? I want to keep her as long as possible but I need to make her as comfy as possible. I wonder why her tummy is swelling up again??? Anybody with ideas or experience I apreciate your help. God Bless

Someone very dear to me has just had a foot of their colon removed with a large tumor and 15 of 18 of the surrounding lymphs showed positive for cancer from the pathology report, now the suggested treatment is 6 months of chemo, 3 days in a row (port surgically implanted) every other week. I have no idea what other kinds of treatments there are, i am just so worried about this regiment, and how hard it is going to be, has anyone gone through this that can help me? I want to know more about the subject so that i can help my loved one through this and help make sure this is the right decision on the chemo. Does chemo make you extremely ill? ANY insight will be much appreciated….

What could predispose a patient to this cancer?! What could be the signs and symptoms?

I’m worried about anal cancer.

I’ve been having severe rectal pain, including off and on bleeding when I wipe. The area is very tender but there are no outside lumps. However just slightly in the opening it is red and swollen lumpy. The pain is so severe I can barely walk, shoots down my leg, and lower back.

I have been using Preperation H suppositories for two weeks with no help.

Several years ago I was diagnosed with anal warts and was treated with Aldara.

I have an appointment tomorrow to see my doctor but I’m freeking out I might have anal cancer.

Are my symptoms of severe pain, and lower back pain common with hemorrhoids?

If I do have cancer, how deadly is it?

What questions should I ask my doctor tomorrow, and what tests should I insist on?

My dad is going through chemo (again)…he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer last september…Hes had chemo/radiation then surgery a few weeks ago…then they say he needs more chemo for another 6 months….Last time he had it it made him really tired/sick and he was sort of depressed….He started treatment this week and already i can tell hes not in a good mood. Anyone who knows what im talking about i could really use some advice. I love him to death and i hate seeing him like that. Im always the one who makes jokes and tries to lighten the mood but i just need some help to keep his spirits up..Thank You

My Mom’s doctor has prescribed Capecite as a chemotheraphy drug after her clostomy LAR surgery. Is this the best option for curative intentions? Is there any other better, more advanced tablet which could be taken?
I do trust my mom’s doctor….just looking out for her best…still cant believe she’s got cancer!

(18 yrs of age)
For the past couple months I have had overly excessive gas, bloating, and some stomach pains. When I use the bathroom, I almost always strain and I am always left with the feeling that same feeling of needing to go to go to the bathroom (#2). Sometimes when I use the bathroom to poop, my stool comes out thin.
Recently I have been feeling slightly nauseous and at times I get a dizzy feeling.
I’d like to know if there is something wrong and if I should take precautions to consider cancer or any other illness.
Any medical information will be great. Please and Thank you.

2 months passed since my last treatment. cancer is gone(clean bill of health). i was told it would take anywhere from 4-6 months for my bowel movements go back to normal. rumor has it that it would take 11 months to a year. anybody been through this or knows somebody who has. how long did it take for them. did they or you take anything(vitamins) to speed up the healing process.. getting tired of going to the bathroom 5-7 times a day.

My cousin has rectal cancer. He began having very bad pain about six weeks ago. He is currently using 75 mcg fentanyl patches, but he still is in a lot of pain. He has some 30 mg morphine tablets. He wants to know if he can use one 30 mg morphine tablet with his patches. He says that the fentanyl patches really only work well for two days. His fentanyl patches are to be used for three days, and then on the fourth day he puts on a new patch. The thing is, he has bad breakthrough pain even with the fentanyl. His doctor told him to go off the MS Contin and just use the patches. However, even when he used the fentanyl patches AND the 30 mg morphine tablet, he still had pain. I need an opinion, please, of what would be best for him based on the information I have provided.

I’ve had cramping, rectal bleeding and mucous for months now.
My colonoscopies don’t show any cancer, but I’m still in a lot of pain and worried about the blood and mucous. I think one of my ovaries is aggravating my intestines. Has anyone ever had a similar experience?

is it possible back to normal life after operation. Cancer was found not that early and not late.
what do you know about this formof cancer?

I’m 23 years old. I’ve had some IBS type symptoms as well as noticed a decent amount of bright red blood streaking my stool and on the TP on one occasion. I went to my GP who noted I had a small fissure.

I went to a specialist who scheduled me for a colonoscopy. I had to wait 3 weeks to get it done and in that time I didn’t see blood once. When I got the scope it turned out I had a very twisted and looping colon. This caused me so much pain they could only see the rectum/anus/sigmoid/descending colon before having to stop. The noted everything in those areas looked normal. Now hemorrhoids or fissures. They rescheduled me to finish the scope 3 weeks from now.

Yesterday my stool became solid for the first time since the prep 4 days ago. I noticed when I went to the bathroom and very minor scrape time pain in the rectum followed by a bit of bright blood on the TP.

From what I’ve read, bright red blood seems to come from the area that they saw with the scope (the lower colon) is it possible I just have a fissure that healed in the 3 weeks leading up to the scope and re-opened the other day because of my solid stool?

Or do you think bright red blood can actually be coming from my transverse/ascending colon and i have cancer?

I’ve read that blood from there is usually very dark red or black.

I felt a little reassured after the partial scope but now that I saw blood again I’m getting scared..

has to go through 6 months of chemotherapy. How awful is that? Now will the drugs make her very sick? Or will the doctors give her anti-nausea medication. That is a long time to be on "CHEMO." The cancer was in 3 of the 12 lymph nodes. She is around 50 or 60. I do not ask age due to it is personal.

I am a survivor of rectal cancer and want to get a team together to raise awareness. However, I am not very creative when it comes to clever names. My first name is Chris. Any help is greatly appreciated.