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barry07472
barry07472

So i had this kind of lump under my jawline and time to time i can feel it's benign. It's not painful. I can pin point the exact location. It's the size of a slight raised 0.5 cm palet. So i went to the gp to check for any lumps and he proceeded to feel for swelling lymph nodes or lumps. He told that there is no swollen lymph nodes or anything abnormal. Since he's the doctor, i trusted him with his check up. Although i can feel the discomfort travelling to the back of my right ear. Or just under it. So while at the gp he said since it's a concern, he will do a blood test. And after an hour of waiting for the results, he told me that my results are normal. Nothing abnormal. My cbc is all in the normal range. Now i'm confused. I'm 21 and i feel like my world is about to go crashing. I'm going to a gastro and lymph node specialist next month. For the GASTRO part, i've been having stomach pain and noise for 2 months. Recently i noticed my poop turning a little darker than usual. Almost black but i can't tell. And just today i notice that my stool had a patch of blood on it. My poop is brown but the other color is red. And the poop in the toilet bowl shows a patch of red on the brown poop. Imm so worried about cancer. I lost 5kg in 3 months without even exercising. My food intake on somedays are lower than other days like 2 meals a day and sometimes i pig out but i'm stressing about not gaining back the weight. This is the first time i'm experiencing such things. Please someone help me 🙃

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  • kevin30685
    kevin30685 barry07472

    Posted

    Hi Barry

    Your young and going through a lot your age is a big factor but your doing the right thing and going to see a specialist

    Nlood after to go to the toilet can ba a lot of different things and you worrying about it won't make you feel any better bit too know it's not easy when you see blood etc

    Your doctor checked your Lymph nodes and didn't find anything they can tell if they're swollen

    But explain everything to your specialist and take it from there comeback and let us all know how you get on its good to talk to someone if your worried

    Take care

    • barry07472
      barry07472 kevin30685

      Posted

      Thanks kevin. Always a pleasure to hear support from other people.
  • shazsilverwolf
    shazsilverwolf barry07472

    Posted

    Hi Barry07472, first off, at 21 you are highly unlikely to have bowel cancer. Not impossible, but highly unlikely. second, stressing the way you are will make you lose weight. You said your food intake is variable, that will also help to lose weight. Your symptoms could be anything at all, or evern nothing at all. Try to stress a little less before your appointment. As an information point, when my cancer was diagnosed, it was very large, I'd obviously had it growing for some time. I had no symptoms before the one blood loss before I went to my GP, and I mean SERIOUS blood loss, it actually scared me, and I never ever got o the docs for anything! I also had no pain, nor did I lose any weight- in fact I was trying to lose weight, and getting annoyed at how slowly, if at all, it was coming off.

     For the lump on your jawline, Have you been to a dentist lately? May be nothing more than a cyst, but maybe a tooth is infected?

     Otherwise, do remember that none of us replying have any medical training. We can only comment on things based on our own cases, and things we've been told.

    • barry07472
      barry07472 shazsilverwolf

      Posted

      Thanks shaz, i know most cancer are hidden. I will go to to specialist and stress on the area. As for the cancer part, i took a cbc blood test and the doctor told me that it is at perfectly normal range. I read that too high or too low levels means there might be cancer. Did you go for a blood test and then got diagnosed with cancer or was it through colonoscopy or endoscopy?
    • shazsilverwolf
      shazsilverwolf barry07472

      Posted

      I was sent for a colonoscopy after the huge blood loss i had, and I do mean huge. That was how I was diagnosed. Other than that I had not had a single symptom at all. It must have been growing for a very long time too, as I had to have radiotherapy to try and shrink it before surgery.

       Re the stress, try downloading some meditation/breathing apps from the App store. There are many free ones. Stress will just make you feel a lot worse.

      You have appointments with specialists, so they will get to the bottom of the problem. Don't stress over time-I had blood loss in June 2014,  was diagnosed in August 2014, and had surgery in Sept 2015.

    • barry07472
      barry07472 shazsilverwolf

      Posted

      Wow. You're a strong women shaz! I admire that a lot. Hope it's nothing big. And both the specialist i will be seeing will be in september. And the since i got referred to the specialist via GP, it's cheaper rather than a walk in fee

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