Biopsy 2 weeks ago

swood9008

My moms biopsy was 2 weeks ago and she's still so sore, she had no pain, drainage, bleeding or anything before the biopsy and has been miserable since with drainage and pain. Tumor is said to be 2 cm 

Mollymaude

Swood

Im so sorry your mom is still so sore. When is the last time someone checked her? She might just be sore because tissue is already fragile from previous treatment and doesn't heal as well, but she could be getting an infection. I got very tender and my doctor thought I might have an abscess in rectum ( turned out I didn't). Dont be afraid to call her doctors or "bother" them with questions. You know your mom better than they do and even if it turns out it's just slow healing maybe they can help with pain. 

swood9008

She has an appt tomorrow so

She has an appt tomorrow so maybe they can check it out. She's showing 3xs a day she said as long as it's clean it feels ok but once she gets any fluid on it, it's painful. Thank you for suggestions 

Mollymaude

Swood

So if they check her and it looks ok I would have her apply a protective ointment like aquaphore or there's one I like by Coloplast for protecting skin around colostomies- active ingedient is petrolatum but it is really thick and forms a barrier over skin. I know that feeling of skin burning as soon as soon as the urine or stool hits it! That might help. It is exhausting having to bathe everytime you have a bowel movement!

swood9008

Thabknyou so much, we went

Thabknyou so much, we went today and dr took a peek said it looks ok well not infected. he said he took quite a few biospys so she wouldn't have to do it again and that's why she's sore. She uses this pink thick cream seems to help a little. 

 

Mollymaude

Swood

Glad she isn't infected or anything, but sorry she has to go through this.

sherry123

Hope you can find a good doctor.

Hope you can find a good doctor. I knew how it look like from my father's treatment, they just getting him worse and worse. There's a lots of privacy laws protecting doctors, they can get away from any mistake. Hopefully you can find a doctor be gentle to her giving her conservative treatment. They suggest to you the most expensive and harmful treatment first, it's better to ask for different options before any treatment. I have a friend, doctor says she has stomache cancer, at that time her skin looks really horrible, it may just caused by metablism imbalance. She's so scared, whole family moved back to her home country because of her cancer. Doctors there says she don't have cancer, I'm very happy for her that she didn't get cheated. Cancer is already defined as a chronic disease 10 years ago, but still many doctors give patients aggresive treatment, which just make it worse.

In other countries, doctors are employees in the hospital, hospital monitoring their daily work, at least junior doctors can be mentored by senior ones which can prevent many mistake in time. Hospitals in US only hire nurses, all doctors are contractor, you see nurses can never monitor what's doctors doing. Good luck to all the patients.

You see these days, doctor won't make you recover any more, they just put you on a medication, and says you can take this all you life, it's well controlled. There're so many addictive medicine now, after you on it sometime, you can never off. 

mp327

swood9008 said:

Thabknyou so much, we went

Thabknyou so much, we went today and dr took a peek said it looks ok well not infected. he said he took quite a few biospys so she wouldn't have to do it again and that's why she's sore. She uses this pink thick cream seems to help a little. 

 

swood9008

I hope your mom will heal and I'm so glad to hear there is no infection!

Martha

mxperry220

sherry123 said:

Hope you can find a good doctor.

Hope you can find a good doctor. I knew how it look like from my father's treatment, they just getting him worse and worse. There's a lots of privacy laws protecting doctors, they can get away from any mistake. Hopefully you can find a doctor be gentle to her giving her conservative treatment. They suggest to you the most expensive and harmful treatment first, it's better to ask for different options before any treatment. I have a friend, doctor says she has stomache cancer, at that time her skin looks really horrible, it may just caused by metablism imbalance. She's so scared, whole family moved back to her home country because of her cancer. Doctors there says she don't have cancer, I'm very happy for her that she didn't get cheated. Cancer is already defined as a chronic disease 10 years ago, but still many doctors give patients aggresive treatment, which just make it worse.

In other countries, doctors are employees in the hospital, hospital monitoring their daily work, at least junior doctors can be mentored by senior ones which can prevent many mistake in time. Hospitals in US only hire nurses, all doctors are contractor, you see nurses can never monitor what's doctors doing. Good luck to all the patients.

You see these days, doctor won't make you recover any more, they just put you on a medication, and says you can take this all you life, it's well controlled. There're so many addictive medicine now, after you on it sometime, you can never off. 

Bad Assumption

The United States has some of the most advanced medical treatments in the world.  Your statements regarding doctors in the U.S. are wrong.  There are some doctors that are questionable but as a whole doctors in the U.S. save hundreds of thousands lives a year.  I was treated for anal cancer in 2008 and thank God for my knowledgeable doctors I am cancer free today.

Mike

mp327

Bobbyboots

I've never heard of this product and in the nearly 9 years of being an anal cancer survivor, I've never heard of this food or any other food causing skin tags or anal cancer.  Sorry to be a non-believer, but anal cancer, in nearly all cases, is caused by human papilloma virus.

swood9008

Pet scan was clear! Besides

Pet scan was clear! Besides the main tumor 

mp327

swood

That is great news!

Mollymaude

Swood

Wonderful! So glad to hear that! And glad you got results today instead of having to wait til next week. Have a relaxing weekend and thanks for the update!