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Q: Colon Cancer ?
asked by: kk1287 on June 6th, 2007
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I amd 19 years old and about a year ago i posted about how i was scared about colon cancer and that i had blood in my stool after being constipated for a week and straining to try and go every day i was constipated. Now, a year later I am still having the same blood in my stool, it hasnt changed at all and up until now that was the only thing abnormal about my stool. I went pretty regularly, and the size was normal etc. Lately I have had pretty thin stools, but sometimes they're thicker than others. They have also been kind of feathery and not hard, but not watery at all. I have been having awful heartburn and indigestion and its been pretty miserable. My family doesn't have a history of any kind of cancer really, but they do have some general GI issues like IBS and Ulcers, etc. I feel like i am more tired than usual, but i am wondering if that is just depression over not knowing whats wrong is me and being scared to find out because when im doing stuff and hanging out with people i feel fine. Someone please give me an idea of waht might be wrong with me!
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m120407
replied on June 21st, 2007
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Hi kk1287.
It sounds like you really need to see a GI doctor. I am 54 and found out I had colon cancer back in July 2005. Like you, I had bleeding in my stools, but figured it was hemorrhoids Wrong! The GI doctor did a colonoscopy and found out that I had colon cancer. I had about a foot of my colon taken out and then chemotherapy. Then in December 2006 they found a tumor in my liver which means that the cancer had metastied. It was taken out - with clean margin.

These cancer terms are not ones you want to be come familiar with out of necessity.

Get checked out for piece of mind.

God Bless You kk - You have a wonderful full life ahead of you.

mandy
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