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napkin ring the bowels - squeeze it like a napking in one
of the fancy rings. I have this still after 2 years. It is verrryyyy sslowly getting a tad better..My doc said "More fiber" - well when you have to be on your feet at a security check point for
8 hours a day - "more fiber" just does not comnpute.. My surgeon did a flex-syg scope and actually showed me the stricture on a tv sreen.
ike
Good luckView Thread

sygmoidoscopy(-10sp) (flex syg for short).
This may not cover what he wants to keep and eye on but if it does - it is cheaper, and is a different exam that Medicare may then cover?. G'luck
IkeView Thread

just didn;t want you waiting for a Dr.'s reply.
ike1954View Thread

a stapled anastamosis and put the ends together. I had the tumor 4 inches from the anus and that still left enough to put together. I lost the top 8 inches of the rectum and 4 inches
of the decending colon. Again I was luckly this time and none of the 25 lymph nodes removed and tested , tested positive.
I have been cancer free since. I have been getting either an
MRI, CAT, or PET scan every 6 months and will now change over to every year. Blood work every quarter with a CEA of less than 1, I have finally had my regular dr. tell me to eat more veggies other than that no one said "CHANGE" anything. If you have ??'s at all ask I WILL answer any I can and will not make up any answers I do not know.
ikeView Thread

6 weeks off work to recover. more than likely if an ostomy bag is involved it will take a bit longer. I experienced a big change iin bowel movements after surgery, I ws 56 at the time and noramlly it was one in the morning and done for the day. Not any more. It has become frequent and smaller movements thru out the day. Best of luck to mom!!!
ikeView Thread

do fine with patience and care. Best of luck
IkeView Thread

"urges". The nerves that are down at the bottom where way up in the colon and any "sensation" is now urgent. Doing cat/mri quarterly. Quarterly blood work checking liver and CEA and the whole works. Have had one annual colonoscopy and had 10mm polyp that had cancerous possilblities, removed. No one gave me eating restricitions and I just "excercise" with a 30-40 min. walk 3-4 times a week. Work is 8 hours on my feet doing TSA screening at MSP airport - lots of excercise.
That is my experience hope your hubby is as lucky.
G'luckView Thread

for CEA and it will give you a few things that affect results.
It also gives the normal and what it does not do.
G'luck
ikeView Thread

If you ar getting insurance with in the month like you said, it should work to get checked after that. Parts of what you described matched my symptoms prior to my Colonoscopy and discovery of my cancer. Actually alot of what you said matched,after re-reading.. Just take it easy till you get a docs opinion , there is no need to get worked up until you find out what is going on. High anxiety is not going to get you anywhere okay??!!View Thread

Last year alomost to the day. I also had NO other indication
that the cancer had moved anywhere and it was not in any of the 23 lymph nodes removed. I did not go thru any chemo. I have been seeing the oncologist once a quarter, I have had 1 PET scan and 2 MRI since. We follow all blood work looking for abmormailities in the liver and kidney and the CEA number.
Last week I had another colonoscopy and had 3 polyps removed,still awaiting results on the biospsy. Once I had been told I has no indication of cancer I was not going to do chemo.
My doc agreed. We will b e doing 1/4 visits for another year, then 6month for 2 years then 1 per year. with PET and MRI scans mixed in and aonther Colonoscopy in 2-3 years. It may be your cancer can return fast and overrun within a 1/4. I kinda did not want to just take chemo and kill anything that was good just to find a cell or 2. The PET scan has a marker in it to designate cancer cells and with a no show there I lucked out and my doc said no chemo - just very close watching.
G' luck and fight fight fight.View Thread
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