Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Seattle, Washington
Too Many Questions...please Help Posted: 01-08-04 18:31pm
My husband has had problems with
diarrhea(sp) for the last two years. He
had a quack for a doctor until last month
when we changed due to a move. The
doctor he had, we found out later, was at
a clinic that gave out bonuses for not
doing tests and there were
plenty of things that he did wrong
concerning my husband.
Anyway, this new doctor had done more
research and tests to get to the bottom of
his problems than that other guy did in 10
years. Last week, the dr did a scope of
his colon and found "numerous" polyps and
he didn't like the color of the colon.
He did a biopsy on a couple of the polyps
that we should hear the results from today
or tomorrow.
Now for my questions:
1. I thought that the first sign of colon
cancer was blood in the stool. Dh had a
stool test done by the old dr about a year
ago(not saying much for doing it right),
but they said there wasn't anything
unusual. Dh hasn't seen any dark or
reddish spots in his stool though.
2. Dh had a complete blood test done with
the new dr and they said that everything
came out normal, except for the chol which
we knew about. I thought that the red
cell count should be abnormal with
cancer.
3. People usually have weight loss with
cancer. My dh is far from that. And he
isn't very tired also, just normal stress
triedness from the holiday season winding
down.
4. How many times do these polyps come
back as cancer or just growths?
That's enough for now. I'm sure that
i'll come up with some more as I get
responses. Thanks in advance for any
help.
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snekii
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Australia
Posted: 02-24-04 03:18am
How is your husband ?
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lovinwashington
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Seattle, Washington
Posted: 02-24-04 10:30am
everything turned
out the best possible. They found only
skin tags and said the everything else was
fine. Thanks for asking!!
Doris
and there were
plenty of things that he did wrong
concerning my husband.
everything turned
out the best possible. They found only
skin tags and said the everything else was
fine. Thanks for asking!!
