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Anal Cancer

Archives for July 2013

thin stools and itching
hello everyone... i finished treatment March 12/13 and healed pretty quickly with little to no complications and also had first scans and scopes with the all clear (Yaaa). However for the last month or so i tend to get itchy around the anus area much like it did when i had the cancer. Im hoping its just scar tissue but why…
Scans and MRI clear
The big whoopeeeeee news is I don't have to obsess any more about any correlation between the Vertigo and hearing loss and Cancer . . . and my scans were done earlier than my anniversary date of August 15th. Yeah!!!!!!! Unfortunately the vertigo took a turn for the worse last night but seems better this morning. I guess…
HPV........??
So, the local news station is going to be interviewing me one of these days soon on the relationship of HPV and cancer. Of course I will be mentioning my own anal cancer (though my tumor was never tested for HPV, my doc did once say to assume it was positive??) I feel fairly informed but yet a little unsure. Any advice or…
Bleeding again
I am 6 months post treament. I had a cat scan done 2 months ago and I am cancer free, but I still cannot wrap my head around the fact that the bleeding I get from time to time is normal. Bleeding is what brought me to the dr and had the colonscopy and was diagnosed with cancer. Now after treatment it's normal. I panic…
Almost scary to feel good again!
Hi Everyone, Yesterday I finished my radiation and Xeloda and I feel great. This treatment brought me incredible relief. Even a month ago I had bad pain, fever, night sweats, anxiety, discharge of blood, stool, mucus. Now nothing, but some minor skin irritation between my cheeks and tight muscles in my back. This is the…
Thanks and a clarification
Hi, this is Mitch again. To those who replied to my post I say thank you. I want to clairify something though. It's not so much that I have diahrrea, as it is that I cannot at times control a sudden need to have a bowel movement, which fortunately hasn't happened outside my home, but that's probably because I rarely leave…
Post anal cancer treatment has left me borderline incontinent.........
Hi, my name's Mitch. I was diagnosed with anal cancer in August of last year. I started treatment in October and finished just before Christmas. In January I was told I was cancer free. Right around March I started noticing that I really didn't have control of my bowel movements. I could be cooking or something, and then…
Hard time with my daughter.
Hi Everone, Yesterday something has changed in me. I just finished a long nasty divorce. We lost everything we made with 20 years of hard work, but I'm ok with that, because I started a new life and despite of my cancer I'm very happy. During and after the divorce my ex has alienated my 15 year old daughter from me with…
Just wondering!
In 1967 there was a band called "Electric Prunes"... Ya think maybe they had radiation like we did? would make an appropriate name!
Emotional
Today my daughter did a 5k race for life to raise funds for cancer research uk. I was hoping to take part myself, but am not yet quite ready to do so.. what I hadn't anticipated was just how emotional I was. Whilst it was wonderful to see so many people participating, it just shocked me, yet again, that I have had a…
Kind of discouraging
Hi everyone - I'm almost five years out of treatment. All of last year I dealt with uncontrollable diarrhea. I finally got a handle on it by watching my diet, taking Metamucil, and using Immodium (actually, the drug store equivalent). This weekend I decided to forego the Immodium only one day. I just went down to fix my…
new discussion board announcement
A new discussion board is available to report and discuss technical problems. Please give it a try. It is the last discussion board listed on the page with all the boards, please bookmark it for future use. The URL is http://csn.cancer.org/forum/200. Best, Greta aka Your CSN staff
So true!
I found this article so very interesting. It says exactly what I've thought so many times and reminds me of why I continue to come to this support site, where people truly understand. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erika-lade/cancer-friendship_b_3539970.html
More on diet....meat
While treating "pink slime" with ammonia has been in the news lately, another common practice has been less visible in the past few years: treating meat, poultry, and fish with carbon monoxide (CO) gas. CO is not a preservative, but it makes packaged meats look pink and fresh. It actually prevents the product from changing…
A great story . . .
I came across this on Facebook and thought of you here, my fellow survivors, and thought you would like this story ~~ Y'all may remember that a few days ago I quoted this man, Bobcat Carter, a legendary Big Bend figure who lived to be 97 years old and who had some unusual characteristics, like an unwillingness to take…
IMPORTANT QUESTION ON FOLFOX!
I' m visiting from the rectal cancer patients, however since my cancer is right on the anal sphincter my treatment is very similar to yours except that in September they have to remove my sphincter and rectum. I just had a visit with my oncologist and everything is looking good. He presented a plan to me that is different…
Weight Loss & Gaining it Back
I see from other posts that weight loss during treatments is quite common. I finished treatments in mid-March and had lost 15-20 lbs. that I really didn't need to lose. The doctors haven't complained about it and don't seemed concerned, although I really haven't pursued this issue with them. I figured once I started eating…
Dealing with uncertainty
This is my challenge and really the challenge of anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer. S far, I have some good news, some unanswered questions. The growth in my breast is not malignant! Yay! There are multiple nodules in my lungs now. Some are new, one has grown since my initial scans in 2011. I will have more…
Weakness in legs; knee giving out
Hi, all . . . . I was diagnosed stage 3B in January 2013; began treatment Feb. 4, and completed treatment March 28. I’ve spent the last 3-1/2 months becoming acquainted with the new me, as I have tried to come to grips with a variety of side effects. About 3 weeks ago, I began to notice a profound weakness in my legs. I…
Too long!!
Hi...for those of you who remember me! I was on Facebook the othe day and saw a picture of Joanne Smith Duke pop up and i was getting on the comments to say how nice it was to see her face! I had no idea of her passing last year. One of her friends was nice enough to email me the details . I was so sooo sorry to hear.…
Scan Report......
Hi Everyone, hope all had a nice holiday doing things that make you smile. I met with my doctor to go over recent CT scan and Chest x-ray and all is seemingly well! There are a couple lesions on my liver unchanged and probably cysts to watch although it is noted that the liver is somewhat enlarged, (another possible SE of…
Long week ahead
Well, this week I have appointments Monday and Wednesday. I am praying that the problems that they see in the scans are benign. Thanks for the prayers.

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