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the good and the bad

tootsie1
tootsie1 CSN Member Posts: 5,044 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Just called and got my CEA results from yesterday. Still .5. Great! Now if my stomach would stop acting like a beast, everything would be wonderful.

*hugs*
Gail
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  • msccolon
    msccolon CSN Member Posts: 1,917 Member
    #2
    Great news!
    Wish they would figure out what's going on with your stomach and get you some relief! The CEA numbers are so good, I am truly Jealous!
    mary
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  • lisa42
    lisa42 CSN Member Posts: 3,625 Member
    #3
    Yay! Glad to hear your CEA
    Yay! Glad to hear your CEA numbers. My CEA has been low, but the time a few weeks back that I took 2 weeks off from chemo, my CEA started going up slightly just in that short time. That made me sad realizing that I have to stay on chemo for the CEA to stay down. I hope that won't always be my case! I'm actually awaiting to hear what my CEA is now, 6 weeks after my last reading and 4 weeks after being back on the chemo again. I should know later today.
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  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 CSN Member Posts: 5,044 Member
    #4
    lisa42 said:

    Yay! Glad to hear your CEA
    Yay! Glad to hear your CEA numbers. My CEA has been low, but the time a few weeks back that I took 2 weeks off from chemo, my CEA started going up slightly just in that short time. That made me sad realizing that I have to stay on chemo for the CEA to stay down. I hope that won't always be my case! I'm actually awaiting to hear what my CEA is now, 6 weeks after my last reading and 4 weeks after being back on the chemo again. I should know later today.

    Hope it's all good!
    I'll be praying you get excellent results.

    *hugs*
    Gail
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  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 CSN Member Posts: 5,044 Member
    #5
    msccolon said:

    Great news!
    Wish they would figure out what's going on with your stomach and get you some relief! The CEA numbers are so good, I am truly Jealous!
    mary

    Yeah
    Yeah, getting the stomach to leave me alone would be fabulous, but at least I'm here to feel the pain, right? Here's praying your CEA numbers will soon be LOW.

    *hugs*
    Gail
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  • Denise1966
    Denise1966 CSN Member Posts: 90
    #6
    Congrats
    That's wonderful news! Hopefully the stomach will calm down and start to cooperate too!
    Have a great day!
    Denise
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  • CherylHutch
    CherylHutch CSN Member Posts: 1,375 Member
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    CEA
    Great news about the CEA but bummer about the stomach pain. I may have things a little mixed up here but am I correct in thinking that you have been NED for some time since you had surgery? In which case, was the check on the CEA to see if it was rising in which case that might indicate something going on in the stomach to cause the stomach pains?

    Hugggggs,

    Cheryl
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  • pamness
    pamness CSN Member Posts: 524 Member
    #8
    Great news on the CEA
    I hope you get your stomach issues resolved.

    Pam
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  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 CSN Member Posts: 5,044 Member
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    CherylHutch said:

    CEA
    Great news about the CEA but bummer about the stomach pain. I may have things a little mixed up here but am I correct in thinking that you have been NED for some time since you had surgery? In which case, was the check on the CEA to see if it was rising in which case that might indicate something going on in the stomach to cause the stomach pains?

    Hugggggs,

    Cheryl

    My surgery was only a year
    My surgery was only a year ago in November, so I'm still having CEA tests every 3 months. I really think the stomach pain is my old friend IBS, but I'm no doctor. *grins*

    *hugs*
    Gail
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  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 CSN Member Posts: 5,044 Member
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    Denise1966 said:

    Congrats
    That's wonderful news! Hopefully the stomach will calm down and start to cooperate too!
    Have a great day!
    Denise

    Hi
    Thanks, Denise.

    Good to hear from you. Hope you're doing well!

    *hugs*
    Gail
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  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 CSN Member Posts: 5,044 Member
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    pamness said:

    Great news on the CEA
    I hope you get your stomach issues resolved.

    Pam

    Thanks
    Thanks, Pam.

    I hope so, too. It sort of wears me out to hear so much, so often.

    *hugs*
    Gail
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  • MoonDragon
    MoonDragon CSN Member Posts: 183
    #12
    Fantastic!!
    YAY!!! Congrats on the CEA!!

    I have tummy problems too and I have IBS and GERD so if it's not one it's the other.

    Tell your tummy that your CEA is cooperating and it better too! :)

    Jorie
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  • Joy1216
    Joy1216 CSN Member Posts: 290 Member
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    tootsie1 said:

    My surgery was only a year
    My surgery was only a year ago in November, so I'm still having CEA tests every 3 months. I really think the stomach pain is my old friend IBS, but I'm no doctor. *grins*

    *hugs*
    Gail

    CEA Tests
    The 3 month timetable is interesting. I guess each oncologist is different. Since I was stage 1, my oncologist recommended that my CEA be checked at my annual physical. He turned me back over to my family doctor after one visit.
    Joy
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