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Is it a hemorrhoid or colon cancer?
ByI have had bleeding, itching and lots of pain on and off for almost a year now. I’m too embarra*sed to go to doctors but now I’m afraid that it could be colon cancer. Both my grandmas had colon cancer. I’m Just wondering if there are any other signs that it might be colon cancer or just hemorrhoids??
I forgot to mention that I’m only 19. I’ve also been experiencing weird gas like pains that are so painful they wake me up not sure if that has anything to do with it though?
3 Comments
March 19th, 2010 at 10:33 am
It is very doubtful that at your age it is cancer but, and this is a very large BUT, people die every day because they were too embarra*sed to go to the doctor with a problem like yours. I have prostate cancer and believe me I know what I am talking about – it leaves you with zero privacy when you get it treated but it leaves you alive. Go to a doctor and find out it is just hemorrhoids and you can stop worrying.
March 19th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Yes, go to the dr! Whatever it is, the dr should be able to help you. Don’t be embarra*sed as the dr will have seen it all before.
March 19th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Please go. I was your age when I started having symptoms, and only 20 when I was diagnosed. I avoided going to the doctor for so long because I was too embarra*sed, and I ended up being forced to go when I was in so much pain. By that stage it was advanced.
So please just go and forget about the embarra*sment factor. Doctors see everything, so they will be used to it.
But pls listen to this carefully. It is most likely, that because of your age, you will be fobbed off, and they will say it’s nothing. If they say it is hemorrhoids, ask for medication for it, and if after a couple of weeks you still have those symptoms, go back, and keep going back until they know what the problem is and it is resolved. The only reason I kept going back is because of the pain, and each time I was told something different, until eventually they did tests.