question about Colon cancer, Yet to have answer

mahelaJ · New User Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 3

Hi

Here is my story, I m 28 M, healthy, however 3 months ago I had really bad pain in lower left side of my stomach, where sigmoid colon is, I went to ER, they did some stuff and told me nothing is wrong. I was still in pain..

went to my MD, He ordered kidney test ( IVP I believe), camee normal, followed by Pelvic CT scan and chest CT. Normal as well, all blood/liver panels are normal as well, I am still in on/off pain, I changed the doc, then new said I should get a Upper GI, I did, Hernia was reported.

Well since 2 weeks I start seeing blood in stool, I going to see doc monday and will demand a scope, I didnt thought about cancer till I saw blood and now I am freaking, I have one question , all recent IVP/CT(2 of them)/2 chest X-ray/blood work, all normal, so if it is cancer, you think its treatable? or I still can have very late stage? please help

brainman

mahelaJ, I am very sorry about your health concerns. Your plan to demand a colonoscopy sounds prudent. However, since you have already had scans that did not show anything it is likely not to be cancer. There are other things that can cause the bleeding you are having, hemorrhoids for example.

Keep us informed. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
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SereniaSaissa · Last edited by SereniaSaissa on Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:25 pm; edited 1 time in total

Have you been taking any antibiotics for anything recently? If yes then it MIGHT be clostridium toxin (thats bacteria overgrowing in the gut). They do cause blood in the stools. See my posts.

http://cancerforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=10210&sid=db210bcbb20b9db58786867969b4ef77

My DH has had the same symptoms as you and we too were thinking it was cancer. However we are not "freaking out" because my father has had colon cancer and he has survived very well. Colon cancer can be cured easily if it is caught early enough.

I was going to suggest checking your appendix (because you said lower left) but that does not cause any blood on the stools.

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