r/AnalCancer

Doctor diagnose me with anal tumor or rectal cancer with 0.5cm size. Now i'm preparing for MRI and CT scan to get a full image if my cancer invades. The hardest part of my predicament is the time when i needed to poop. I can't poop properly and i need a whole day just to extract my stool out of my stomach. And the most hellish part is where it hurts so bad at the bottom part of my stomach, like a thousand needles are scratching inside and then a small poop will pop out of my ass. I really hate this moments, to the point that I only ate one meal a day just to prepare myself for the upcoming pooping again in next 3 - 4 days.

I really need to get a progress and proceed to get a chemotherapy, mostly a radiation treatment. Cause I can feel my body are starting to give up and im still my 30's and i still want to experience a good life. Just when everything is starting a proper and good life. I'm really scared.

Hi have any of you had problems with constipation? I seem to have went the other way. If I take something I’m nervous I’ll swing back to the frequency/urgency. is this a common thing I’ve scoured the past comments and am only seeing the multiple BMs being the issue. I will take a walk, drink water and give it some time. I’m passing gas/ and have bowel sounds. Just a wondering if anyone else went through this is I don’t panic. Thanks

Hi all I hope everyone is doing as good as possible today. I’m gettIng ready to order supplemental shakes. Can anyone give me some good ones that worked for them. Thanks in advance.

Went for my follow up with my colorectal doctor today and since I’m two months out, he wanted to do a digital exam to see if he could feel the tumor still. OMG, it hurt like hell! He said he couldn’t feel anything, and was pleased about that.

I can understand why my first exam hurt - I had a massive tumor. But why this one…if there were no detectable masses? Did radiation just shrink my butthole?? He wants me back in a month to do a scope but now I’m already panicking thinking about if it’s going to hurt worse (I read that the anoscope is like 2 frigging inches in diameter!) He did say if that doesn’t work they’ll do it at the surgery center next door with some light anesthesia. Maybe I should just go ahead and put that request in…

I will have a 45 minute ride to/from my radiation sessions and I'm afraid of having a diarrhea accident in the car. Has any one used adult diapers during radiation treatment? Any that aren't too painful on radiation burns? Thank you