Stressed I got cancer

[ChemHead]

Hey fellas sorry to post here but just need to vent for a bit as I don't want to bring this up to anyone else. Gonna be a somewhat long post so no worries if anyone doesn't want to read.

Little bit about me. 33 years old. Recently got married and had our first kid. She's 8 months now and is by far the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Im a firefighter/EMT and did blast and cruise in the past but now currently just on trt the last 2 years.

My mom died of pancreatic cancer when I was 21. Came to a shock for all of us. She had some abdominal pain and thought it was her gall bladder. She goes in to get scans and they tell her she has 3 months to live. With treatment she ended up living another year and a half. My father recently passed away right before all my symptoms started about 2 years ago. I went to go visit him and ended up finding him dead in the bathroom from a heart attack.

So 2 years ago I started having right flank pank, Loose thin stools and burning in my abdomen. Cold hands. Got ct scan, hida scan, ultra sound and upper endoscopy and all came back clear. They ruled it up to acid reflux and was prescribed Omeprazole. Never did a colonoscopy though. Was on that for about a year and it relieved those symptoms. Still feel like my stool wasn't like it used to be and wasn't going as much as I used too. I was however on a lot higher doses of roids and eating a lot shit back then compared to now. Kind of just lived my life after that and really wasn't feeling bad or anything.

Fast forward to today I'm still having loose stools occasional. Although some times it's thick I still feel like I only go once a day compared to going like 4 times a day before all this happened. But now with having my daughter I feel like something is about to go wrong. I know from past how quickly things can change and I don't want my daughter having to grow up without me. I feel like I have convinced myself already that I have colon cancer. I just feel like something is off. I have had anxiety my whole life so that doesn't help. Have been having a lot of recent calls at work with a lot of young people dying so it shows me how short life can really be.

I don't have any abdominal pain, weight loss, or blood in my stool but I can't seem to stop thinking about the fact that I may have cancer. My Drs don't seem to take me seriously but I was able to push for a colonoscopy in March this year. I'm not sure if it was cancer I would be a lot worse with it being two years now but I know they say colon cancer is slow growing. If anyone has any opinions or anything I'd greatly appreciate it.

Again sorry for the off topic post. Don't want to worry the wife or anything. Thanks again fellas.

Definitely premature to worry about cancer, but there are a lot of thing you can't do to help improve your gut function as get yourself back on the right track. I could offer advice, but I don't really know any of the specifics of you situation. So, if you want, you can either DM me or you can just post here. I've had some pretty severe gut motility issues over the past 5 years and I think I'm finally getting close to solving them.

 

[Gangbang]

Stumbled across this ….. any updates ? Did you do colonoscopy ? Are you in a different state of mind ?

 

[Ghoul]

Hey fellas sorry to post here but just need to vent for a bit as I don't want to bring this up to anyone else. Gonna be a somewhat long post so no worries if anyone doesn't want to read.

Little bit about me. 33 years old. Recently got married and had our first kid. She's 8 months now and is by far the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Im a firefighter/EMT and did blast and cruise in the past but now currently just on trt the last 2 years.

My mom died of pancreatic cancer when I was 21. Came to a shock for all of us. She had some abdominal pain and thought it was her gall bladder. She goes in to get scans and they tell her she has 3 months to live. With treatment she ended up living another year and a half. My father recently passed away right before all my symptoms started about 2 years ago. I went to go visit him and ended up finding him dead in the bathroom from a heart attack.

So 2 years ago I started having right flank pank, Loose thin stools and burning in my abdomen. Cold hands. Got ct scan, hida scan, ultra sound and upper endoscopy and all came back clear. They ruled it up to acid reflux and was prescribed Omeprazole. Never did a colonoscopy though. Was on that for about a year and it relieved those symptoms. Still feel like my stool wasn't like it used to be and wasn't going as much as I used too. I was however on a lot higher doses of roids and eating a lot shit back then compared to now. Kind of just lived my life after that and really wasn't feeling bad or anything.

Fast forward to today I'm still having loose stools occasional. Although some times it's thick I still feel like I only go once a day compared to going like 4 times a day before all this happened. But now with having my daughter I feel like something is about to go wrong. I know from past how quickly things can change and I don't want my daughter having to grow up without me. I feel like I have convinced myself already that I have colon cancer. I just feel like something is off. I have had anxiety my whole life so that doesn't help. Have been having a lot of recent calls at work with a lot of young people dying so it shows me how short life can really be.

I don't have any abdominal pain, weight loss, or blood in my stool but I can't seem to stop thinking about the fact that I may have cancer. My Drs don't seem to take me seriously but I was able to push for a colonoscopy in March this year. I'm not sure if it was cancer I would be a lot worse with it being two years now but I know they say colon cancer is slow growing. If anyone has any opinions or anything I'd greatly appreciate it.

Again sorry for the off topic post. Don't want to worry the wife or anything. Thanks again fellas.

If intermittent weird shit is cancer I've had it for 30 years.

Everything from too much coffee to mental stress can do it, and you're definitely under stress from your family history and job.

Grab a doctor by the collar and insist they get to the bottom of whether you have cancer or not. Diagnostics are cheaper than long term psychotherapy.

Pretend this was your wife or child, and be just as strong an advocate for yourself as you would be for them.

 

[HeatherSwanson]

Hey fellas sorry to post here but just need to vent for a bit as I don't want to bring this up to anyone else. Gonna be a somewhat long post so no worries if anyone doesn't want to read.

Little bit about me. 33 years old. Recently got married and had our first kid. She's 8 months now and is by far the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Im a firefighter/EMT and did blast and cruise in the past but now currently just on trt the last 2 years.

My mom died of pancreatic cancer when I was 21. Came to a shock for all of us. She had some abdominal pain and thought it was her gall bladder. She goes in to get scans and they tell her she has 3 months to live. With treatment she ended up living another year and a half. My father recently passed away right before all my symptoms started about 2 years ago. I went to go visit him and ended up finding him dead in the bathroom from a heart attack.

So 2 years ago I started having right flank pank, Loose thin stools and burning in my abdomen. Cold hands. Got ct scan, hida scan, ultra sound and upper endoscopy and all came back clear. They ruled it up to acid reflux and was prescribed Omeprazole. Never did a colonoscopy though. Was on that for about a year and it relieved those symptoms. Still feel like my stool wasn't like it used to be and wasn't going as much as I used too. I was however on a lot higher doses of roids and eating a lot shit back then compared to now. Kind of just lived my life after that and really wasn't feeling bad or anything.

Fast forward to today I'm still having loose stools occasional. Although some times it's thick I still feel like I only go once a day compared to going like 4 times a day before all this happened. But now with having my daughter I feel like something is about to go wrong. I know from past how quickly things can change and I don't want my daughter having to grow up without me. I feel like I have convinced myself already that I have colon cancer. I just feel like something is off. I have had anxiety my whole life so that doesn't help. Have been having a lot of recent calls at work with a lot of young people dying so it shows me how short life can really be.

I don't have any abdominal pain, weight loss, or blood in my stool but I can't seem to stop thinking about the fact that I may have cancer. My Drs don't seem to take me seriously but I was able to push for a colonoscopy in March this year. I'm not sure if it was cancer I would be a lot worse with it being two years now but I know they say colon cancer is slow growing. If anyone has any opinions or anything I'd greatly appreciate it.

Again sorry for the off topic post. Don't want to worry the wife or anything. Thanks again fellas.

How did your scope go? In the clear?

 

[Rippidy Dippidy]

Hey fellas sorry to post here but just need to vent for a bit as I don't want to bring this up to anyone else. Gonna be a somewhat long post so no worries if anyone doesn't want to read.

Little bit about me. 33 years old. Recently got married and had our first kid. She's 8 months now and is by far the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Im a firefighter/EMT and did blast and cruise in the past but now currently just on trt the last 2 years.

My mom died of pancreatic cancer when I was 21. Came to a shock for all of us. She had some abdominal pain and thought it was her gall bladder. She goes in to get scans and they tell her she has 3 months to live. With treatment she ended up living another year and a half. My father recently passed away right before all my symptoms started about 2 years ago. I went to go visit him and ended up finding him dead in the bathroom from a heart attack.

So 2 years ago I started having right flank pank, Loose thin stools and burning in my abdomen. Cold hands. Got ct scan, hida scan, ultra sound and upper endoscopy and all came back clear. They ruled it up to acid reflux and was prescribed Omeprazole. Never did a colonoscopy though. Was on that for about a year and it relieved those symptoms. Still feel like my stool wasn't like it used to be and wasn't going as much as I used too. I was however on a lot higher doses of roids and eating a lot shit back then compared to now. Kind of just lived my life after that and really wasn't feeling bad or anything.

Fast forward to today I'm still having loose stools occasional. Although some times it's thick I still feel like I only go once a day compared to going like 4 times a day before all this happened. But now with having my daughter I feel like something is about to go wrong. I know from past how quickly things can change and I don't want my daughter having to grow up without me. I feel like I have convinced myself already that I have colon cancer. I just feel like something is off. I have had anxiety my whole life so that doesn't help. Have been having a lot of recent calls at work with a lot of young people dying so it shows me how short life can really be.

I don't have any abdominal pain, weight loss, or blood in my stool but I can't seem to stop thinking about the fact that I may have cancer. My Drs don't seem to take me seriously but I was able to push for a colonoscopy in March this year. I'm not sure if it was cancer I would be a lot worse with it being two years now but I know they say colon cancer is slow growing. If anyone has any opinions or anything I'd greatly appreciate it.

Again sorry for the off topic post. Don't want to worry the wife or anything. Thanks again fellas.

Don’t mean to make things worse but yeah, doctors often miss stuff like this.. family member went to the hospital every 2 months and they said bladder infection bladder infection bladder infection each time. The 5th or 6th time she went, “oops it was actually cancer now it’s stage 4” then they murdered her with chemo, roasted every organ in her body so that instead of living 1.5 more years, she lived 4 more months in agony from the chemo. This is Canada health care tho. Pretty fucking pathetic.

 

[Country Club Hero]

Don’t mean to make things worse but yeah, doctors often miss stuff like this.. family member went to the hospital every 2 months and they said bladder infection bladder infection bladder infection each time. The 5th or 6th time she went, “oops it was actually cancer now it’s stage 4” then they murdered her with chemo, roasted every organ in her body so that instead of living 1.5 more years, she lived 4 more months in agony from the chemo. This is Canada health care tho. Pretty fucking pathetic.

Idk if more aware now or just noticing it more often but this seems to be happening far more often since Covid. It’s like the entire medical system was revealed as different than I had always believed.

I’m 44 and have been at this stuff for 14 years now. Really considering the perma-cruise, old guy, health conscious lifestyle. I have taken my excellent health for granted until being injured on and off last few years for first time in my life.

Even starting to value important relationships more and thinking about mortality for the first time. I guess this is just part of maturing. It’s a bummer though. Hug the ones you love more often, fellas. You have no idea what is right around the corner for your health, finances or anything else really stressful.

Damn I’m sounding fragile. Quite different than the indestructible workhorse I have always been. Stay safe brothers.

 

[Rippidy Dippidy]

Idk if more aware now or just noticing it more often but this seems to be happening far more often since Covid. It’s like the entire medical system was revealed as different than I had always believed.

I’m 44 and have been at this stuff for 14 years now. Really considering the perma-cruise, old guy, health conscious lifestyle. I have taken my excellent health for granted until being injured on and off last few years for first time in my life.

Even starting to value important relationships more and thinking about mortality for the first time. I guess this is just part of maturing. It’s a bummer though. Hug the ones you love more often, fellas. You have no idea what is right around the corner for your health, finances or anything else really stressful.

Damn I’m sounding fragile. Quite different than the indestructible workhorse I have always been. Stay safe brothers.

Yea I feel you man, watching all these bodybuilder having heart attacks and loved ones dying really makes you anxious about legit every little thing.