Hello guys,


I have a question for anyone who might can answer this. Can a person have blood in their Bms,(diarrhea, seperate from stools, just alone, or mixed with mucus) for the last 9 years and still be alive if they had colo-rectal cancer?

I am scheduled to be scoped next week and terrified I have waited to late. My regular doc kept telling me it was hemorrhoids and not to worry. Gastro doc I saw a month ago doesn't seem that concerned and even said it was not a rushed scope, I guess because I have had it on and off for so many years.

I do have several external hemms.

I guess what really freaked me out is that on Jan 10th I had a hard time using the restroom but I knew it would be explosive when it finally happened. I sat there for 30 min straining a little when finally i passed 2 smaller bms and then boom the big D started. After several bouts of this in about a 25 min span I looked down and the top was covered with bright red blood. I started to get panicky and for the rest of the night about every hour I had just mucousy liquid blood coming out. My colon was spasming and I was in panic mode. This was a little different then the other times as usually I will start off with some soft bowels and then on about the 4th or 5th time I go I would just have 1 or 2 bouts of bloody mucous and then it would stop.

Mind you this has been happening on and off for 9 years. I am a 35 year old female. Please help me as I have canceled my scope once already THAT I WAS SUPPOSSED TO HAVE LAST WEEK due to fear.

Do you think if I did have cancer I would be dead already for as long as this has been happening. AND IN NO WAY AM I CANCELLING THE SCOPE AGAIN. I promise. I have been given Klonopin to relax my nerves. The only CC in my family was a great uncle, 62 at time of diagnosis and my aunt 63 at time of diagnosis, who is in remission and doing great. Both my parents had totally benign polyps removed in there 50s. Sorry if I am rambling but I am so scared more so because I am a single mom to a wonderful boy who needs me.


Thank you for any support.

DF

DF theres only one way to find out and thats to get the colonoscopy done. If your GP thought it was an emergency he would have tried to book you in alot earlier. Please dont worry (easy to say) but until you have the test theres no way you will know.
Let us know the results..
Take care
Maz

Hi DF, Sorry to hear you are having problems. If only we could make our bodies transparent for examinations, life would be so much easier wouldn't it? Sadly we can't do that and a colonoscopy is the next best thing. For most of us the horrible thing about a colonscopy is the prep beforehand. The actual procedure is no problem as you will be sedated and won't know much about it.No-one can guess the diagnosis, and having the test is the only way to find out whats going on.

It's only natural to be scared and worried about what 'might' be, but try and relax, and think positively. Cancer is just one explanation for losing blood, but there are many other reasons, and hopefully you will be one of those other reasons

Good luck
Lalee

Thanks Guys for responding. I guess what I was really wanting to know is if someone can have these symptoms for 9 years and it all along was colorectal cancer? I mean wouldn't you be dead by then?

Df

If you have had hit and run bleeding for 9 YEARS.......well,I think if it were cancer you'd be up in heaven right about now.

It would be wrong for anyone to diagnose you online, especially since you saound prone to not see a doc if someone tells you that you'd be dead if you had cancer.

Blood in the stool isn't normal, get a colonoscopy. Everything else is a guess. My docs have said my cancer could have been in my system for years A naturopath said it may have started 20 years ago on a very minor level and events in my life, biological and emotional have played parts in its eventual eruption.

For what its worth, I had worries that I had cancer and avoided the docs a long time, turns out that my fears were right. Your fears could be just paranoia or your body telling something.

Every who has cancer reacts to it in different ways, there is no norm other than the drugs and surgeries etc....we all got it, got treatment and we all have a unique experience with it.

Point is, don't assume anything and get checked.

Don't jump to conclusions. It is definitely possible to have blood with bms for many years without it being cancer. My husband has had this problem on and off for the last 40 years, and both my children have this problem. All three have been scoped and found to have internal hemorrhoids. I on the other hand, never had any blood in or with a bm and I was the only one in the family that actually had colon cancer (discovered during first colonoscopy after age 50). The main problem with internal hemorrhoids is that you don't know when you have a bleeding episode if it is just hemorrhoids or has some cancerous or precancerous condition developed too. Thus, you have to realize regular colonoscopies are a necessity to detect a non-hemorrhoid source of bleeding since bleeding as an early warning symptom will not be meaningful for you.
Good Luck

Leslie