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Who has problems with bowels & irregularity since Cytoreductive Surgery

LorettaMarshall
LorettaMarshall CSN Member Posts: 662
in Ovarian Cancer #1

 

Hi Ladies

 

 

 

Just want to know if anyone else has problems with their bowels and irregularity since their Cytoreductive Surgery.  If so, what remedies were useful?

 

Am on my second series of Carboplatin and Taxol to combat potential Intestinal Blockage.    Diagnosed Thanksgiving of 2012 with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis. 

 

Exploratory surgery in December of 2012 indicated it was also in my ovaries. Doctors suspect it really began in my ovaries, and now my diagnosis is changed to Ovarian Cancer Stage IV.  Cytoreductive surgery @ University of Pittsburgh Medical Center July 1, 2013.

 

My gynecologist seems to think that most likely Ovarian Cancer may actually begin in the Fallopian tubes.  He says from now on when he performs a hysterectomy, he wants to take everything out.  I would have liked that when I had my hysterectomy but who knew 40 years ago what the thinking would be today?

 

         No matter what we call it, the consequences and difficulties seem to be the same.  Accepting the diagnosis isn’t my problem—I know the definition of Stage IV and cancer of more than one kind has been a frequent visitor in my family lineage. 

 

         This saying remains forever true:  “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass.  It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”

 

  

 

Loretta Marshall

 

 

 

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