Colon Cancer Or Hypochondric? Posted: 07-16-06 11:28am
Hi, i'm an 18 year old girl and i'm the
type of person who looks for things that
are wrong with me.
My suspicions of colon cancer started like
1.5 months ago when I was constapated. I
automatically thought of an obstruction in
my colon and I ended up sitting on the
toilet several times pushing my hardest so
I could prove to myself there was no tumor
obstructing my bowels. I didn't go for
like a week and then when I finally did
go, there was blood in my stool...Sort of
marbled through...It was bright red.
Ever since then ive had blood in my stool
but as of the last week and a half or 2
weeks its starting to be less and less
blood. Ive never had any in the toilet
bowl or on my toilet paper, only in my
stool. So do you think im over reacting
and I just gave myself hemorrhoids when I
was trying to "unconstipate" myself or
should I be really concerned? Someone
please help im really miserable and I
think about it all of the time.
*i also dont have a good water or fiber
intake. By the way.
Thanks - k
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sandyallen
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4580
Posted: 07-16-06 13:32pm
Hi there! Welcome to ehealth! I am sorry
to meet under these certain circumstances.
I am not a dr but I do know that it is
not a good idea to strain as straining can
cause problems, you should think about
drinking more water and I do understand as
I used to dislike water also and using
more fiber in your diet as this helps too!
I myself use a colon cleanser because I
use a lot of medications for pain and
situations like that so I have to be
careful as I get constipated easily too
another one that I use is benefiber and
magnesium of citrate or citrate of
magnesiumi do not remember which on it is
called exactlyit tastes icky but it
helpes, fleets enema(disposable). Have
you ever had a colonoscopy, that generally
tells you if you have something going on
or not and they knock you out for that.
Try not to get hooked on the otc products
that clean you out, the best thing to do
is to talk to the dr and get a colonoscopy
set up or at least, that is my opinion.
All the best!
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