abdominal pain and constipation with bowel obstruction Posted: 02-21-08 07:38am
I am new to this board - I will try and
say my story suckers as possible.
My mum is 66 years old and since summer
she has been suffering from abdominal
pain, and constipation. Towards October
she started noticing some blood on the
tissue after she wipes after have a bowel
movement. then she started complaining of
feeling the need to move her bowels but
after lots of straining, she only passes a
little stool. she also started getting a
mild fever once a week which will only
last for a few hours and as is always
controlled with paracetamol. she had a ct
scan done and an ultrasound and the bowels
seemed ok but her uterus seemed very
bulky. She knew she had a bulky uterus
and was being monitered by her gynae for
it. the docs suspected that her uterus
was pressing on her bowels and causing an
inflamation. she has had a barium enema
and sigmoidoscopy but they were not
perfomed properly cause the liquid from
the barium enema kept on seeping out and
during the sigmoidoscopy she started
bleeding and a stricture was found.
During the sigmoidoscopy 5 biopsies were
taken which came out negative for cancer.
they also performed some kind of blood
test for cancer cells which came back
negative for cancer too. her chest xray
is clear too and her hemoglobin is 11.6.
she seems fine except for when she has the
tummy pain and shivers and chills from the
fever. she has now spoken to the surgeon
who will be operating her on the 3 march.
her operation will be to remove whatever
is causing the obstruction. we are scared
as the surgeon told her that even though
her cancer results were negative, there
might still be cancer in her bowels. Did
anyone ever experience this, I would have
imagined with 5 biopsies, some cancer
cells would have been found if there was
any. she might still need to have her
hysterectomy but first they are going to
operate on her bowels. did any one ever
have a large fibroid which was causing
this obstruction on the bowels? thanks for
any reply.
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MandMs
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Posted: 02-22-08 04:53am
I agree that surgery must be performed,
because there are clinical study reports
of a false-negative endoscopic-directed
biopsies.
Age greater than 50 years and unexplained
gastrointestinal symptoms of more than 2
weeks' duration, are associated with
increased risk for colon cancer.
What was your mum's last PAP smear
result?
Any change in bowel habits is also a
warning sign of gynecologic cancer.
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Posted: 02-22-08 06:35am
thanks for your reply. her annual pap
smears are always normal. so you think
that she could have got a false negative
result on all 5 biopsies? plus the blood
test to detect cancer cells came beck
negative too. i just hope it's not cancer,
she's been through a loss of a child,
breast cancer, acoustic neuroma and
surgery for tyroid gland too.
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MandMs
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Posted: 03-03-08 10:00am
Thinking of you and your mum!
Wishing her a successful surgery and quick
recovery!
Waiting for your post!
Marija
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