anyone experience this?

cheryltaco
cheryltaco Member Posts: 39
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Finished the last of my chemo a couple of weeks ago, and I was just waiting to go in for my cat scan at the end of the month. Then, I got bad lower abdominal cramps, went to the urgent care and they did a pelvic, rectal, fecal occult, blood and urine test and a cat scan. They found I had a uti and sent me home with antibiotics. The next day I was very sick (nausea, vomiting, fever...) that lasted about 24 hours and although I wont say I feel 100% I am definately feeling better. Anyway, I got a call with the cat results and was told some fancy medical lingo, in a nut shell the scan shows leakage in the rectal cavity. The doctor didn't seem overly concerned as he said I would be extremly ill if there was anything to worry about. The weird part is it came at a time when I have been ill but according to the doctors I would not be able to recover on my own if it were serious. He said the cramping and symptoms I experienced could have been the result of the bad uti or the flu. Am I making sense? Has anyone heard of anything like that or had a similar experience with a cat scan showing leakage?

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  • pamness
    pamness Member Posts: 524 Member
    #2
    I haven't experienced any leakage on a CAT scan, but I did have an incident about 2 months after I finished chemo and radiation with severe abdominal pain. I went to the ER twice and was eventually hospitalized. It went away and hasn't come back so I got diagnoses like the flu and virus etc. Along the way, I did have a UTI infection, in fact I have had several, I don't know why. I was horribly sick when I had the abdominal pain, they thought it was a bowel obstruction but it wasn't, it occured twice a few days apart and has not returned. So I guess it's not exactly the same as yours, but it was very odd.

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