Oh God I can relate to this too much. I had bad stomach issues then regularly started crapping my pants. My stomach got so bad I was canceling plans. I had mucus, blood ect and was always having really foul smelling poops that never made me feel Empty. I finally saw a doctor. Had stool samples taken, blood work and when was nothing was found I had a scope. Alas there was a bleeding tumor. I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at age 25.. I still wish I aware of resources and people to talk to when I felt like I would never feel normal again. I had two rounds of chemo and , a round of radiation and two surgeries. I had diarriah 10-20 times a day for 5 years and then gradually my bowels calmed down. I can't say my stomach is ever going to be great but it got better and hey, I'm alive. 12 years cancer free❤ congratulations to you❤❤
My Mum has been that way for getting on 10 years now - and yes she rarely ventures out too far. She usually needs to 'go' within about 15 mins of a meal. She had a stoma for about 6 years following bowl cancer and sometimes says things were far better then, before she was 're-plumbed' as she puts it.
@@maxthelab8457 I'm kind of curious. What kind of diet can your mother handle? Are there certain foods that aggravate or alleviate her condition? And if the OP is reading this, I'd like to hear about her diet, too.
I was diagnosed stage 4 colon cancer by the end of 2019 at the age of 39, undergone 13 cycles of chemo, 25 sessions of radio theraphy, 4 operations and atleast 3 more to go, to resolves complications. But i am cancer free now. Thanks be to God! Thank you for sharing your experience
@@davidgrana1268 2nd quarter of 2019, from time to time i had blood in my stools,not much but enough to make me worried. Late Oct 2019, i always felt bloated, by Nov went to ER for assessment and thats the start of many treatments and surgery
I had similar symptoms. But luckily it was IBS, haemorrhoids and stress that were causing it. After a colonoscopy, it was luckily confirmed it was nothing serious. At the end of the day, it's better to rule out something serious than assuming that it's harmless.
Yes, definitely! Not knowing is worse - once you find out what you’re dealing with you can start to help/solve the problem. I’m glad to hear you found out what was causing your issues and that it wasn’t cancer 💙
I have problems with my colon for years. Sometimes there is also a little blood. But I think it's something else because it was the last time maybe a year ago and I feel very healthy. But still I think I have a high risk for colon cancer. Maybe I should go to a doc but I am afraid.
My GI told me it's just IBS after losing 20# in ¹4 days. Luckily, my service dog is smarter than him and alerted me that it was a gallbladder issue. Within 48 hours of the visit with my GI, I was undergoing am emergent gallbladder removal because it was necrotic. I was only a few hours from going septic
Thank you for sharing . I almost died of colin cancer Aug of 2023. The cancer in my colin was a hugh mass that was ready to burst. If I wouldn't have gone to the hospital that night it would have burst and I would have died. Iam still doing chemo. I finished my radiation and doing well. Please pray for me! I will pray for you and again thank you for sharing. We need to inform more people of this horrible cancer.
I had the same symptoms and diagnosis in 2015. I had stage 3 colorectal cancer at age 41. It was a very difficult fight but im still here in 2023. Thanks for sharing your story and remember to live your best life every day. God bless you.
Thanks for sharing your experience with colorectal cancer, as unpleasant as it was. It is so important to catch cancer early. I'm a cancer survivor too. I was in my mid-40s when I was diagnosed. Thank goodness for Obama care or I wouldn't be here to write this.
I appreciate this honest, open, humble video. I had colonoscopy today because of some symptoms. Something no one talks about is that 1in 7 men is colorblind and can’t judge his own stool.
Something else no one ( I mean men mostly ) ever talks about is Penile Cancer, which I had at 54. It took 2 years to be correctly diagnosed after me pestering my GP that I just KNEW what I had was not right, which was a patch of ulcerated skin that just wouldn't heal on my togger. I knew it wasn't an STD! He gave me no end of creams to apply all with no improvement. It was raw and bled whenever I touched it, and it was getting bigger. Eventually, I insisted I see a skin specialist who sent me for a biopsy straight away. Once the biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of cancer I was sent for surgery right away within days. The first bout of butchery didn't get it all so I had to go under the knife a second time. The second time they were confident it had all been removed. Luckily I didn't have to have chemo, my oncologist suggested we see how things go before going down that route. That was 6 years ago now and all's well - best bit, I still have a togger that looks normal and works as it should. I said at the start that if it meant chopping it off, do it! but fortunately, my surgeon did a fantastic job saving my little man. My Mum had Bowel cancer twice and is a 15-year survivor now.
Your channel is the most informative one I’ve ever seen in relation to colorectal cancer, Ostomy, Ileostomy, Cancer in general and all the related treatments and side effects. I went through much the same as you in the last three years although my ileostomy hasn’t yet been reversed (fingers crossed that will happen next year).
Thank you for sharing and I'm so glad you survived. All the best to you. The takeaway for me was that the serious possibilities should be ruled out immediately when there's blood involved.
Thank you for sharing your story. My son was diagnosed in 2019 with appendix cancer. Yes you can get it there. Your appendix is part of your colon. It is almost always found as stage 4. My son was stage 2. I'm so thankful for that. If you are ever told that you have a fecalith in your appendix request your appendix be removed ASAP.
Can relate. I was diagnosed Stage 4 carcinoma rectal cancer after my first colonoscopy on July 27, 2023 (just turned 51 a day after my birthday). I had most symptoms like rectal bleeding, frequent bowl movements, fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, and diarrhea now into fecal incontinence (wearing adult diapers due to loss control of bowel movements). My FML and health insurance come Dec. 2023 is expiring soon and had been denied of government help (state health insurance and SSI). Added stress; soon to be unemployed. Right in the middle of chemo treatments and IVF for dehydration. As I can see looks like a chemo port implant.
Bleeding from your rectum and the nurse practitioner didn't do a rectal exam or immediately schedule a colonoscopy. Shaking my head, this is the 2nd time including myself that a nurse practitioner failed to recognize common cancer symptoms. I had uterine cancer and a nurse practitioner sent me home with an antibiotic!
Healthcare in the US is terrible and way overpriced. It's the level of care you can expect in a for-profit system. I've started going to Mexico for care.
Ya and when she went back, the nurse practitioner thought maybe she was allergic to gluten???? Really?? Gluten caused her to bleed from the ass? The girl is suffering from digestive symptoms and you want to just tell her to start cutting foods?
Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE. How can they be that incompetent? In fact. It's more than incompetence. It's evil. It's simple apathy and evilness. I swear people are worthless.
This type of medical care is UNHEARD OF where I am. Your doctors listened to you and got you in very quickly after trying something for a week that didn't help.
Thank you for sharing your videos and I hope you feel better soon and you are not alone there are some of us are going through something and my heart goes out to you. And the greatest Christmas present I wish for is that cancer and heart disease and all these diseases be cured and taken away from us.
Shocking that a "Nurse Practitioner" decides, what to do after month of bleeding ... In Germany You would instantly see a real MD and he would (hopefully(!) send You to a gastroscopic investigation... I am so sorry for You - all the best!
The bleeding should have been an immediate red flag to the practitioner. I had problems with hemorrhoids and minor bleeding and was sent for a colonoscopy straight away. Was just internal hemorrhoids and got them banded, but any bleeding should be investigated asap
You fell into my RU-vid feed today for some reason (I haven't event looked up this kind of info on yt)! I have my colonoscopy tomorrow because have had the symptoms. Thanks for sharing your story and hope you are well!
I'm 56. I had a colonoscopy at age 4 and enemas throughout much of my young childhood, which traumatized me, so i'm not going to have another colonoscopy in my lifetime. I was AWAKE in 1971 when i had one and vividly remember it. Instead, i recently had the Colonguard test, which came back clear.
I’m sorry about your traumas. 💙 I just did the ColoGuard and mine came back positive. 😩 So scary. Now I have to do the colonoscopy anyway. I know there is like 14% false positives with ColoGuard and it doesn’t catch like 8%. Make sure you do this every few years if you stay that route.
My symptoms were...one day I had bloody diarrhea that resolved itself in a couple of hours, ten months later I had it again and it was getting worse. Both times I had no other symptoms, in fact, I felt great. That 5/20. Right hemicolectomy, Stage 3C, 12 rounds of chemo and have had NED since 1/21.
Hi Jelena-I’m really glad to find your channel-at first I thought well she is showing every one else’s stories so I’ll just check out someone who is willing to share his/her own story. But NOW- I’m SO impressed with how much you are helping me to understand anatomy., symptoms etc that I really want to thank you!! One thing is that you said there would be a card you were going to put it “above” then you pointed to the air space behind your head where people put video links -but there wasn’t anything no video link that I could click on. Is there a link somewhere else to find the information that you were speaking of? Thank you so much for everything you have put up on the Internet about CRC stories and how to get help and about screening 👍🌺🌈🙂
Love your channel those were my beginning stages no blood that I could see had my first infusion last week, only side effects so far the cold liquids glass feeling going down my throat , I’m 51 and they found mine started capecitabine fourth day just fatigue so far been able to still go to work part time. All your tips have really helped.
Any rectal bleeding is cause for alarm. Bleeding from the Vag after meno also cause for uterine/endometrial cancer - get checked asap and do all screenings annually
Friends, please get in there and get a colonoscopy as soon as you are old enough for your health insurance to cover it, if not sooner. The procedure is really not a big deal. I believe many health plans will actually pay for the whole screening, with no copay. It is just that important to them, and I am sure that their actuaries have calculated the risk of having to pay for cancer treatments vs colonoscopies.
About 4 years ago I read a WebMD article about younger folks getting CRC. Scary stuff. The woman's was caught in time. The man's was caught late but he survived; sadly, he will be using a ostomy bag for the rest of his life. Horrible thing. You can't be too careful...
No, they’re right. What you eat is 100% the reason you’re sick or healthy. It’s always has been that way. The so called professionals don’t want to ever talk about that simple fact. You don’t ever hear anything food related concerning cancer. God Bless. ❤️
@@EdithEsquivelyou believe the drs lies! Most and almost all are NOT genetic! Research and don’t blame others for your low iq and trust in drs. Research if you know how
Yes, it is! That’s why it’s so important to get checked out by a doctor if you’re having these symptoms because that’s the only way to tell what exactly is causing them.
Vegetarian...carbs...the second is the more important thing. I'm not surprised. You keep pushing insulin, you keep encouraging cell growth. Cancer cells also do fermentation, which requires glucose. Reduction is necessary.
Thank you for sharing! Hope you’re doing well. I had my colonoscopy screening a few weeks ago along with an EGD. Colonoscopy came out great! I highly recommend if people are 45 and over or have a family history to get it done.
@@SurvivorJelena Thank you! Yes, my father has long history of colon polyps so I knew it had to be done. Also, my sister is in remission for adrenal cortical carcinoma and her cancer was found incidentally during a nasty bout of diverticulitis. Luckily, they found it in time. 💚💚. And she’s doing very well. Thank you again and I hope you’re well. 💚💚
You're not younger than me, i was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at the age 21, year 2021 and had surgery and chemotherapy, but after almost 2 year's it get back.
My son had crohns and colitis. He was in Humira for many years. That kept both in remission, along with mesalamine. Unfortunately, he experienced of the rare side effects. Hodgkin's lymphoma. After treatment and being cancer free, his team of doctors started more testing to find out what could treat crohns without increasing the risk of cancer recurring. He's experienced similar bleeding as you described. He is taking prebiotic as well. I will send him this link and suggest that he stop the prebiotic. All of his screens have shown him to still be cancer free. The only colon signs are crohns and colitis. The colitis diagnosis was recently added. There is a new biologic that has no cancer risk side effects. He will be starting on that.
That sounds like a good thing that he’ll be switching medications. It’s important for him to keep going in regularly for colonoscopies and hopefully it’s just his condition causing his bleeding, but he should check in with his doctor to mention it just in case.
My father was put on Humira for his arthritis. He was 68 at the time. He developed large diffuse b cell lymphoma and died at 71. I think this was due to his immune system being suppressed by the Humira. I'm glad your son had a good outcome.👍
I worked as an RN in South Carolina as a travel nurse. I’ve been in every state but 2. I have never seen so many colostomies in my career as I did in SC. Diet?
I've been suffering with these symptoms for over 25 years, i paid for a CT virtual colonscopy quite a few years ago and it found nothing , i dont think it sees the small intestine very well.The worst part is fatigue comes on stronger about 10 mins after eating.Ive just been putting up with it and gave up trying to find answers, i have discomfort in my abdomen for over 25 years sometimes it's stronger some weeks more than others but never goes.
Have you ever looked into dumping syndrome or rapid gastric emptying. I have the same symptoms as you but when I eat to much carbs or sugar my farts are terrible and long and smell horrible, so embarrassing. Plus sometimes when I fart I poop a little or pee a little. Im still being checked for other stuff but so far they found the dumping syndrome and liver disease, I have an endoscopy coming up.
My Mom had pain in lower part of stomach and they easily connected it with endometriosis which she indeed had. And she was going and doing procedures for this. No gas, no extraordinary intestinal movements, no blood. Till the last months when pain started to be severe and she wasn’t able to stop it. Colorectal stage 4. Anyways, she survived it and after 10 years she has another type of cancer. What I want to say is maybe you should be more insisting talking with doctors, maybe a bit exaggerating because it’s so easy to lose your precious time. There are illnesses that people create with their own habits - drinking, smoking, being morbidly overweight. But when you have normal lifestyle with no addictions and out of nowhere you get strange symptoms- go and insist on being checked up.
Congrats to your mom for surviving a stage 4 CRC diagnosis for 10 years. That sucks she has another type of cancer now, hopefully she can survive that one too.
No joke, when I had severe UC my farts smelled like death. I remember coworkers walking into the company bathroom and gagging. I remember one employee screaming "OH MY GOD! IT SMELLS LIKE BURNED TIRES IN HERE!" before walking out while coughing. It literally took all of my willpower and focus to hold back laughter and not reveal it was me. I don't care, seeing my coworkers walking in while not knowing what was waiting for them and seeing theit total shock and disgust was sometimes absolutely hilarious. Many days were ruined because of me. The thing is, with UC I genuinely couldn't help it. While I cherished those moments everything else was awful.
I was just told today that a polyp removed during a colonoscopy two days ago was cancerous. I have a CT scan on April 2nd and will have a surgical consult after that. Hopefully this was caught early but at this point I have no way of knowing. As you can image I’ve been all over the internet reading up on the prognosis which ultimately brought me here.
Luckily the CT scan should tell you if it’s spread anywhere, but if it was able to be fully removed during the colonoscopy there’s a good chance it hasn’t spread anywhere else 🤞🏼Wishing you the best as you go through these next steps.
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Hello. I was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2018. Just like you ik had blood in stools. After scans it was said that i had metastases in lympf nodes and liver and that only palleative care was possible. I got a second opinion in the AVL in Amsterdam ( a cancer hospital in the Netherlands and more was possible there. After chemotherapy and radiation i had surgery. ( fortunately it turned out that there was no cancer in my liver) I was goung to get a tempory stoma but they were able to prevent that. Unfortunately after a week things went wrong. The suture started to leak and i had to be operated again urgently. After this operation i did have a stome en unfortunately not a temporary one. But i have no problem with a stoma i have a good live with it. And i am still here after 5 years and have no longer any problems. 😄
As ordinary people I think we should say if we have blood or change in routine we should assume we have cancer. If you go to a doctor saying they have blood they will say you have piles. If you say you have changes in smell they will say that is because of your diet. Better to request for exclusion of cancer. I think the problem is with us who don't want to think we have cancer. If you don't do this they will say you have IBS which should really be the last thing you think of. I realise this could be expensive. In my country (UK) doctors only think of the cost to investigate. In USA I imagine people are worried how much it would cost them.
My saxophone player was diagnosed with rectal cancer at 33 years old. He had begun working out, and started bleeding from his anus after workouts, which the doctors contributed to straining. A few months later he was diagnosed with stage IV rectal cancer. He died three years later.
In 2006 I had just finished my AA and was going to go live on campus at University. The entire summer I was bleeding and even my dad who was a doctor kept saying it would stop. I moved on campus anyways. I became anemic and passed out in Golf Class around Halloween. I drove my self to the hospital and they found a tumor the size of an orange.
I found out yesterday that some of the tissue that the surgeon removed from around my stoma during the reversal was sent to pathology and it came back with a very small group of adenocarcinoma so I get have some more chemo not too clear on length but I'm not getting oxaliplatin this round he wants to get some genetics to determine the new drug 5fu is happening It was a very small group of cells believed to be from my 1st surgery too small too see on scan💙💙 Hope you are well and 😊
I wonder if there's something in our modern diets that makes this type of cancer more probable than in the past? Completely guessing here but I bet artificial sweeteners and some other chemicals are present in our food now that weren't there before.
I’m honestly scared I have colon cancer. I have a colonoscopy on 10/30. I do have UC but I hate how doctors minimize it just bc you’re young. I’m 33, but I don’t want to wait till my 40s for these procedures.
Following up here but it went okay! Thank you for asking. 😊 UC was/is in a flare-up but no colon cancer. 🙏🏻 I’m supposed to be taking four Lialda pills a day.
4 years ago I had my first colonoscopy and one 3mm benign polyp was removed. I would be insisting on one if I had any unusual symptoms at all that lasted more than a couple weeks.
Cancer's favorite food to thrive on is sugar/carbs. Coincidentally it's pretty much the cause of all metabolic disorders and diseases. Intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets seem to be extremely helpful in eliminating these problems. Some of us just aren't meant to eat vegan or vegetarian.
Soon as you said you're a vegetarian a light bulb came up. Vegetarians /vegans may have reduced cancer risks in many other areas but increased cancer risks to the colon. I'm not making this up. There are plethora of research on this topic.
Researchers are hopefully looking into this. There are a lot of environmental things that have changed in the past 100 years, including our food, so there is a lot to look at.
I’m having a lot of the same symptoms I have my first ever colonoscopy in a week and a half I have mucus every bowl movement and blood like every couple bowel movements horrible stomach pain nausea everyday when I wake up but new thing that started is blood clots so many blood clots when I have the blood I’m just curious on if you had any blood clots as well I have a bad feeling about this but also trying to stay positive I turned 36 In may
Yes good point. I was vegan 5 years and my bowel was highly irritated. 1 or 2 quick trips to the loo daily, irritable bowel. I felt like my insides were constantly scraped and I was so bloated almost all the time. 5 weeks now of eating lots of animal protein and only small portions of fruit and veges and the masses of issues I had are almost gone.
The thing is that a lot of vegetarians supplement their diet with soy and dairy in the place of meat, which can both negatively affect your digestive system, thyroid, and hormones. Gluten can also negatively affect those things. I'm a vegetarian, but I actually avoid all three of those for that reason (I just take iron pills and vitamins instead).
Some hard to process food for the colon are raw vegetables, coffee, alcohol, dairy products, nuts, over processed foods. Genetics play the biggest role in health
My partner literally pressurise when he goes to toilet every morning . Everything which I eat he eats, even he walks a lot too. But he literally have to push so hard every day. I know its not normal but no doctor is doing nothing by saying everyone’s bowl moment is different. He has liquid stool many a times . Snd he recently had pain in right side of stomach . But I don’t know what should I do if doctors are not raking my words seriously.
I am struggling. ..have lost weight the last year.. 6kg. Have had more frequent diarrea the last year.. then 12 qeeks ago bloatiness major gas. Abdominal pain and back pain.. weird symptoms indicating poor cirkulation in feet.. i have struggled with stess the last with divorce with kids involved.. my stool shows signs of indigestion and occasionally a fat stool. I had my blood checked on the 24/4 this spring.. nothing came up.. a ct skan showed nothing at the gallbladder or pancreas. A small lowattentiating area on the liver and a small cyst like strukture on the bottom of the left kidney.. i feel of.. weird muscle aches att times.. i am worried that the things on my liver and kidney are initial secondary tumors and the main tumor is hiding somewhere.. apparently 1/3 of pancreatic cancers are misssed on imaging. ..
