Not cancer. Still in pain. came home from ER, sleeping day away

Helen321
Helen321 Member Posts: 1,459 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1

Next step is to call doctor. Possibly colonscopy. My hands and legs are swelling and my hip hurts so I wonder if there is some sort of swelling. 

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  • JanJan63
    JanJan63 Member Posts: 2,478 Member
    edited May 2016 #2
    Aw Helen, I'm sorry you're

    Aw Helen, I'm sorry you're feeling so miserable. I'm glad it's not cancer, though. I hate how every time we get some weird thing now we have to wonder of it's cancer. Before cancer I'd secretly laugh at those people who would get some little ailment and worry it was cancer. Now I'm one of them.

    Jan

  • SilentRenegade
    SilentRenegade Member Posts: 123
    edited May 2016 #3
    It's better to be safe than

    It's better to be safe than sorry... and I really can't blame anybody for doing this after a cancer diagnosis. My dad had a pain in his back and went right in (he would have NEVER done this before), and found out he probably pulled a muscle. My manager's wife had thyroid cancer (young, like early 30s) and had severe abdominal pain. She went in and had a stomach virus, but still, it's scary when something is going wrong, because you may have ignored it before (my dad ignored rectal bleeding for over a year before getting checked), and are just making sure you catch it this time. 

  • ellend
    ellend Member Posts: 109 Member
    #4
    Better to be safe

    Before I was diagnosed, I went to the ER. They didn't see any evidence of a tumor, but their scans were probably not in the right place to see it. The cancer wasn't found until I had a colonoscopy. Better to follow up.

     

  • Helen321
    Helen321 Member Posts: 1,459 Member
    edited May 2016 #5
    SilentRenegade said:

    It's better to be safe than

    It's better to be safe than sorry... and I really can't blame anybody for doing this after a cancer diagnosis. My dad had a pain in his back and went right in (he would have NEVER done this before), and found out he probably pulled a muscle. My manager's wife had thyroid cancer (young, like early 30s) and had severe abdominal pain. She went in and had a stomach virus, but still, it's scary when something is going wrong, because you may have ignored it before (my dad ignored rectal bleeding for over a year before getting checked), and are just making sure you catch it this time. 

    Well none of the other stuff

    Well none of the other stuff alarmed me in the slightest, just the bleeding.  Of course, bleeding was how I found out I had cancer so it made sense.  

  • Helen321
    Helen321 Member Posts: 1,459 Member
    edited May 2016 #6
    ellend said:

    Better to be safe

    Before I was diagnosed, I went to the ER. They didn't see any evidence of a tumor, but their scans were probably not in the right place to see it. The cancer wasn't found until I had a colonoscopy. Better to follow up.

     

    Yes I will definitely follow

    Yes I will definitely follow up because the bleeding means something is off.  The rest is just fluff.

  • SilentRenegade
    SilentRenegade Member Posts: 123
    #7
    Helen321 said:

    Well none of the other stuff

    Well none of the other stuff alarmed me in the slightest, just the bleeding.  Of course, bleeding was how I found out I had cancer so it made sense.  

    Bleeding is definitely scary.

    Bleeding is definitely scary... in any amount. Even the streaks from hemorrhoids freak me out now, but probably wouldn't before my dad was diagnosed. Hell, I'll be honest, I didn't even know colon cancer was a thing before he was diagnosed...

  • traci43
    traci43 Member Posts: 773 Member
    #8
    keep us posted

    Helen, I hope it's nothing major.  Glad you're home and that you are going to follow up with your doc.  Take care, Traci

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