Colon cancer?

Hey ladies, so first off please be nice, I have major anxiety.. I’ve always had stomach issues.. about three weeks ago I had diarrhea a couple a times for two days, with cramps and just not feeling well.. then that next week, I get a Hemorrhoid I was down for three days, I’ve never experienced one before. Then my upper stomach starts hurting and I have gas pains but it feels like I can’t pass gas, (maybe from an internal Hemorrhoid?) all that week my stomach hurts low and lower pain plus plus my period comes so that doesn’t help.. I know some of you will say go to the doctor, but before you say that I have an apt scheduled. I just wanted to hear your symptoms of colon cancer.. I’m 29 I know colon cancer is on the rise for young people please help ease my mind or give it to me straight.

Fertility after cancer

Hey guys! I would love to hear some stories of my fellow cancer survivors about their fertility stories after chemotherapy or anyone who has struggled with fertility, I’ve been feeling down about everything about it and would love to hear some advice. Backstory: I was diagnosed at age 18 with osteosarcoma and I went into remission a month after I turned 19! I’m now 21 years old, about to finish nursing school & with the man of my dreams. I’ve talked to my oncologist about my fertility and she said that there’s a 50 / 50 chance of being able to conceive naturally and that I’m in my “prime time” now if I want to try to have kids naturally. When I started dating my boyfriend two years ago I decided to get an IUD just to be safe because obviously we weren’t ready. Fast forward two years and we’re both almost finished with school and both have matured quite a lot. Lately my IUD has been bothering me & I’m not a fan of all the hormones and I would love to get it out, but I don’t want to go on any other birth control if I do get it out. Obviously, we want to finish school before we even think about trying for kids, and ideally would like to be married. But I’m worried that I’ll be infertile (if I’m not already) by that time. I want to hear everyone’s opinions, obviously the decision is ours, but opinions on taking out my IUD and letting “nature run it’s course” or should I start by seeing a fertility doctor and then decide.I want to hear some survivors stories, good or bad!💛

Breast Cancer survivors, I need help 🥺

What was your first signs? Was it obvious or did it get worse? Anything you wish you did different? My Dr isn't seeing anyone right now unless urgent (apparently pain and discharge isn't urgent) and I been having these symptoms for a few months now.*Sharp pain, pain sometimes in the nipples, multiple types of discharge (white, clear, yellow). Cancer runs in my family and I have a higher chance due to a medical condition. I just know a few of those symptoms are *red flags* I'm not pregnant. Never have been. Advise would be great. Thanks.

TTC with skin cancer

I’m 35. My husband and I have been together for six years. Married for one year. And TTC for about two months. I have a pore on my nose that hasn’t stopped bleeding for the past month and although it is unconfirmed, it looks to be basal cell carcinoma- skin cancer. I’m really hoping it is a mistake somehow that it isn’t cancer. Cancer treatment of course would mean that my husband and I have to put off trying for a baby until months after cancer treatment is complete. My father (65) is currently battling colon cancer and was estimated to maybe have another two years to live. It might seem silly because I imagine most women feel this way but I really wanted my father to be able to meet and know a grandchild before he passes. I know it is pointless worrying about it because whatever it is will be and we will have to treat it in whatever way necessary but I’m feeling really sad and disappointed at the moment. Also I’m not sure if I should tell my dad or not about the skin cancer as he will just worry for me and I don’t want him to die being worried for me... any thoughts or advice and words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated.

Cancer vaccine

My brother has pancreatic cancer and he recently got the Whipple surgery. His oncologist talked to us about this a vaccine for pancreatic cancer to keep it from coming back 🤦🏻‍♀️ so he flew to St.Louis to see if he could qualify for it but it turns outTHE TRAIL ALREADY ENDED. Like that was such a wasted trip.

Is breast pain for a week after period nornal

About a week before my period i got bad breast pain never has it before it stayed till after my period it’s like a burning achy pain that doesn’t go away can’t lift my arms over my head and my left breast has a spot that is spending shooting pain into my arm pit it’s tender and can feel a little limp maybe pea size

Lump between breast and collar bone

Hi there. Yesterday I discovered a lump between my collar bone and right breast. My doctor squeezed me in the morning and is sending me for an ultrasound next week. It’s hard and doesn’t move. Doesn’t feel fluid filled. Pain from it is very minimal. I know I shouldn’t but googling but I am lol anyways I cannot find a lot of photos from anyone who has had similar! Just wondering if anyone has had one in the same spot - what it ended up being etc.

Brain cancer is fucked up

So my MIL is battling brain cancer (glioblastoma) which at first we thought would be taken care of with surgery but actually learnt that’s it’s fast growing and very aggressive and could not all be taken out. It started in October of 2019 with- headaches- a bit of memory loss- and the wrong words coming outShe’s had two brain surgeries within a 2 weeks span, she’s had radiation once and chemo twice, the steroids and chemo have changed how she looks and the whole right side is weakened because of the steroids and not using those muscles. We recently found out she had blood clots from her right kidney to her right knee.&& that the chemo/ radiation has done jack shit to the Tumour. The shit thing now is they have stoped all cancer treatments because they have decided it would be easier for the tumour to take over rather than her suffocate from a clot breaking off and logging into her lung.So basically my MIL is dying in a matter of days not months now, Covid-19 has become more scary because I’d hate for her to catch that!! She’s never going to see our daughter grow, she’ll never see us get married or see her future grandchildren which I can process yet as it’s too hard. (Before)The worse thing is she’s thinks she going to get better, she doesn’t know what happening to her as this cancer is making her confused and it’s too upsetting for her to hear the bad news, she is always saying when this is over meaning the cancer😭It’s awful it can be any day now 🤯I miss how she was, she is like a second mum to me, I used to be able to talk to her about anything, now it’s hard for her to hold a conversation. She’s is so cute and sweet it’s hard that she’s going through this. (Recent)

Pregnancy after removal of most of the cervix

Hi allI am post surgery where they removed most of my cervix due to early cervical cancer 1a1.Is there anyone out there that can share their experiences TTC, Pregnancy, delivery after surgery for cervical cancer.These isn’t much information out there and I would like to arm myself with knowledge before TTC.Thank you in advance :)

Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia cancer

I was diagnosed couple of months with gestational trophoblastic neoplasia/disease cancer due to a molar pregnancy. I had a miscarriage and have been doing chemotherapy the past couple of months. This is apparently a really rare cancer. I was just seeing if anyone has ever had this before where it has led to cancer. Please let me know. I have tried joining all of these support groups for cancer and I haven't found one where someone has had this cancer diagnosis. Let me know if it is you! Thanks all!

Brother with Pancreatic Cancer Stage 4

So, my brother is 35 years old. He just started his family with his wife that he’s been with since he was 15 years old. In March 2019 when he was 34 years old, he started having upper stomach pain and sometimes lower back pain. He CAN NOT stand any type of stomach pain ( just like me) so he went straight to the doctors. We have a family history of gallstones, I had gal stones, our mother had gallstones , and our grandmother had gallstones etc.So we thought for sure this was going to be gallstones. They did a ultrasound and after few days the ultrasound came back and told my brother to head straight to a hospital. The doctor didn’t say much, but he went to the hospital anyways. They did blood work there and few hours later we got the results back. The lab showed something was going on with his pancreas, we figured it might be a cyst or maybe his pancreas wasn’t working properly. The doctor told him that they couldn’t rule out pancreatic cancer but it’s very rare for someone under 50-60 years old to get this type of cancer. So we wasn’t too worried about it being cancer.Few weeks goes by and we had a CT done. The ct scan showed a mass on his pancreas, the doctors still couldn’t confirm rather or not it could be a cyst or a tumor. If it is a tumor we were hoping it wouldn’t be cancerous. So, we scheduled a biopsy. After the biopsy results came in, it was official he had pancreatic cancer. This news was so hard to take for my family. As many of you know that has had family members with this type of cancer, there’s only 3% chance of survival and most patients doesn’t make it past 3 months. So, his oncologist scheduled a PET scan to see what we are dealing with and if it’s spread any. We crossed our fingers and prayed that it wasn’t in stage 4. When pancreatic cnscer goes into stage 4 there’s almost no chance of beating it. Luckily we got the diagnosis of Stage 2. This was April 2019. He got his port installed and started chemo within a week after his PET scan.Our main goal in treatment was to get the tumor to shrink enough for the Whipple surgery. In June 2019 it was end of his chemo cycle, he got very sick from this strong chemo. His oncologist told him that elderly couldn’t handle this type of chemo it’s too rough on the body. He would throw up every 10 minutes and was too weak to eat or even walk to the bathroom. It was miserable seeing him being like this. It was officially scan time. We crossed our fingers and hoped the tumor shrunk. But when we got the results in it broke our hearts even more than stage 2 diagnosis. He was officially in stage 4. It had spread to his liver , his oncologist said he has 8 months left to live, If even that. I learned that you can grieve over somebody that’s still alive. It felt like my heart was ripped out of my chest. I cried every 5 minutes for weeks. With Stage 4 diagnosis, he wasn’t a candidate for surgery anymore.But my brother is warrior and we didn’t have time to grieve in our sadness. So, we put our heads together and started calling hospitals all over the country to see if there’s any trail runs or hospitals that specialize in this type of cancer. We got a plan together and had consultation to hospitals Texas and John Hopkins. My brother flew out to Texas that week and spoke with doctors. We had to put chemo on hold during this time because both hospitals said once you start a new chemo cycle, you can’t stop it and start another treatment course. It left us in a sticky situation since pancreatic cancer spreads like wildfire. Few days later Texas Gave us a answer, they said they won’t take him until he has no hope left. So, his oncologist got a weaker chemo plan together and he made the tough choice to go ahead on a new cycle of chemo instead of going for a consultation at John Hopkins. We could always get another consultation if this chemo didn’t work. After he started this chemo he felt much better, he didn’t get sick. He would get a little bit nauseous but nothing compared to his first chemo brand. We started seeing improvements in his tumor markers.( it tracks the cancer in your blood) It was 600 when it spread to his liver and it was going down pretty fast. We rescan in August 2019 after a cycle of the new chemo. And his liver spots was gone!We continued the treatment and continued seeing improvements in his tumor marker. In December 2019 his tumor marker went to 37. A normal rage marker goes from 0-36 I believe. Since his markers was good she decided to do a PET scan few days before Christmas. We were all nervous because if it was bad news it would ruin our Christmas but we actually got a miracle. There was no hot spots on his PET scan which meant no active cancer was picked up. We celebrated, few days after Christmas he met with his surgeon to get a new plan together. He decided he was ready for the Whipple surgery, we were so happy to be a candidate again. He got a official date, it was suppose to be on Jan 27.He got off chemo for few weeks to get his immune system ready for surgery, it was nerve racking since cancer can spread any time and they would have to close him back up if it spreads. January comes around and we get a call saying there’s been a surgery open on Jan 9. So, we get a ct done and the results wasn’t very good but wasn’t bad either. His tumor was too close to the main artery so surgery had been canceled. We were bummed but he said we will shoot for April and in the mean time he will go through radiation and a chemo pill. The chemo pill made him very sick, it was closely related to his first chemo brand that he tried in the beginning and his tumor markers went up. So they switch his chemo to half of dose of his previous chemo that worked for him.On March the 4 we got some scans done and it showed a halo effect around his tumor, and his surgeon said when a tumor is dead a shell forms around it creating a halo effect on scans. So his surgery is back on for April 10 2020. There will be no more scans, so surgery will definitely happen this time. Its a one shot thing and we need a lot of prayers. I wanted to share his story for those who are battling cancer also. He’s been incredibly lucky to be a l alive this long and having such success with treatments. His oncologist never had a pancreatic patient to succeed like this before. She even told him sorry for not believing in him. Thank you for reading 😊

Tamoxifen causing vision problems ?!?

Anyone using Tamoxifen experiencing vision issues like halos?

My dad is dying and it’s sad but beautiful

I’ve had a complicated relationship with my father since i was around 8 years old when I started noticing his alcoholism and anger issues and they began effecting me and my brother as well as my mom of course. Since then I’ve carried a lot of anger towards him and the resentment lingered no matter how much I tried to forgive him. He was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer three years ago. Now he lays in a hospital bed during his last weeks of life and I no longer feel the separations and tensions between us. I see now more than I ever have how similar we are. I’ve always been told I’m so much like him but now I truly see. As sad as it makes me that I’m losing the person who is the most like me on this whole planet, I am at peace because I have let down the walls I built between us. because of the way he has been broken down by his illness, He now looks at me as if I am a ruler of his universe. The man who once taught me how to live is looking to me for answers and comfort and strength. In the child like state of someone on their death bed, I see him as human in a way I never did before. I am finally free from the resentment and anger ive felt about the way my childhood went because in the end he was growing up and trying his best and he loved my mom and my brother and I and he loved his life and I hope he loves what it feels like to leave this life too.

Cervical Cancer

HiJust wanting to see if there is anyone here who has/had cervical cancer? I have been diagnosed with stage 3C and would really like to talk to someone who has been or is going through treatment...

Help!

Had this over 6 months, wont heal or go away. The skin around it has started to become slightly discolored, feels warm in comparison to the rest of my breast. Any ideas of what is could be? I’m in my early 20s but there is breast cancer in my family.I’m freaking out a little so any advice is sooo greatly appreciated. Thanks ladies!

2020 was meant to be my year 😩

Hi ladies. Sorry for the vent but I think I have breast cancer and am freaking out!!!! The first week of December my nipples were so sore and painful. The second week of December it turned into breast pain. Third week of December it turned to breast pain just in my right boob and haven’t left since. I went to the Dr’s yesterday and she found a lump. I keep reading things in google and it sounds like ‘inflammatory breast cancer’. I’m so so scared. Any advice?

Scared

I just got a letter saying I need further testing to see if I have cancer. I have a 7 year old and a 1 year old and she’s still breastfeeding... im not ready to give it up and i know she isn’t ready either. I’m just scared and I was looking for words of encouragement or guidance. Anything can help. Thanks....

Breast cancer

I was diagnosed with a benign breast tumor 2 years ago, and kind of put it out of my mind since but after a bout of thrush I'm starting to think it was a misdiagnosis or something new is happening. My son and I were both treated for thrush, hes all clear and my left side is completely clear. My left side however has only gotten much worse, even after multiple treatments of different prescriptions. After doing some research I'm terrified its pagets disease of the nipple. Has anyone had experience with pagets or misdiagnoses of a breast lump?

Abnormal bleeding

I've been doing cancer treatments for 2 years. It has had some effects some effects on my period. I missed a period in November, now I've been having bleeding/ spotting for 8 days. Has anyone else been through this?

Is this cancer?

I have been very very tired lately and I have noticed lumps in both my breast my boobs are very sore and swollen at first I thought it was just because of my period in October but the lumps and pain and swelling have stuck around after my period at the end of November. They are hard bumps and I have some that move around.