How I KNEW I Had COLON CANCER - Courtney | Colorectal Cancer | The Patient Story
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- Courtney started experiencing symptoms including fatigue and blood in her stool that led her to suspect she had colon cancer. Even though she was dismissed by multiple doctors due to her age and lack of family history, Courtney persisted in advocating for herself, ultimately undergoing a series of tests, including colonoscopies and scans, which lead to her stage 3A colorectal cancer diagnosis.
In this cancer vlog, Courtney shares how she underwent surgery to remove the tumor and lymph nodes, followed by chemotherapy.
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[Video Chapters]
00:00 Introduction
00:28 My first symptoms
01:30 My symptoms were dismissed multiple times
04:34 Undergoing tests and scans
05:15 Advocating for myself
06:30 Finding out I had colon cancer
07:08 Having surgery to remove the tumor
07:55 Prep for the surgery and the procedure
09:10 Treatment after surgery
09:43 Chemotherapy side effects
15:08 Words of advice
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How I KNEW I Had COLON CANCER - Courtney | Colorectal Cancer | The Patient Story
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The lesson is trust your instincts. I was told I probably had mild form of leukemia, while my body was telling me
I was about to die. Turns out my body was right, I had a very rare form of blood marrow cancer. Once i was properly diagnosed, I was put on the path to treatment. I will be celebrating 3 years cancer free in May.
Praise the Lord!!! 🙏
Praise the lord and you Go Dan 💪💪💪....
Thank God 💞🙏
As a family doctor, I can't imagine not referring someone URGENTLY. Her age made inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's, ulcerative colitis) more likely than cancer - but either way - it needs investigating. Not emergently, but urgently - I'd say within 10 days max. I'll never forgive our government for the lockdowns. So many cancers diagnosed too late. So unnecessary & tragic.
As a former psychiatric social worker who worked closely with doctors for 15 years until I left the field to retrain as an attorney I want you to say this respectfully, because you sound like a good doctor-you don’t know your colleagues. They hate women. Men and women doctors hate women. I wish they didn’t. They do. Sounds like you don’t. So it’s probably very hard for you to see.
The health care system basically shut down.
Surgery they felt wasn't urgent was put on the back burner. Diagnostic tests same thing. In return, cancer was being diagnosed in later stages.
I don't know where you live but a lot of hospitals chose to postpone procedures and appts.
This happens all the time. It has nothing to do with lock down. Ridiculous. Imagine how many more would be dead without the lock down.
This is more about MDs and their penchant for medical gaslighting than lockdown!
My young daughter died from Breast cancer…..I blame the Insurance companies and her 1st onocologist! Insurance drives the bus and I can go the rest of my life without hearing the words “Standard of Care”…. My daughter deserved more than the “standard” of anything. You are so right…advocate for yourself. Sending prayers 🙏🙏🙏 Giving mother retired RN.
I’m so so sorry 😢❤
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People need to start filing complaints against these doctors
My husband is 9yrs survivING from stage 4 CC, so please keep the faith 🙏🏼 ❤💙.
That's great news to hear, I hope he stays well!
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I’m stuck on “you’re thin, and you are not pre diabetic” . 😖 neither of these comments have anything to do with blood in a persons stool! Saying those comments out loud just shows ignorance imo . Doctors have been trained to do better than that. I’m sorry you saw doctors that missed getting to the diagnosis.
i think they knew she needed a colonoscopy but didnt want to contact the insurance to fight for her to get one because why wont a dr just reffered you for one when is not his dang life or insurance.
ignorant AF doctors who think thin people aren't unhealthy. WT F
See this is why I like Canada its free if you think you need this or that all you gotta do is see your doctor and they will set it up for you free of charge. It might be a why’ll until you can get in but no money is spent out of your pocket no insurance companies to worry about our taxes cover healthcare. The only time you may need insurance of some type is when your prescribed medication that you have to pay for unless you got some type of insurance or benefits through your work.
Also, being thin does mean you can't be pre-diabetic.
@@ryans413I have a Canadian friend who had to wait months for her child to see an orthopedic specialist. His issue got worse and worse and he sufferred irrevocable damage from having to wait so long. And, this was pre-covid, so that did not impact the wait to see a specialist. She paints a very different picture of Canadian healthcare than you do.
So many of people featured on this channel have suffered unnecessary stress and pain due to delayed correct diagnosis. With such a known high cancer rate even among young fit people no doctor should dismiss symptoms like this for any reason. I wish this lady all the very best for many years of healthy life still to come.
100% agree!! My sister was among the unfortunate ones. So many of these people could have had different outcomes if the doctors would've just took the precautionary measures & ran the tests. It angers me so bad!
Ppl need to understand that so many of us didn't get stage 1 diagnosis > myth diagnosis finally came at early stage 3, but I am actually very understanding bcx it is NOT racism, not " byty deign," it is bcz sometimes they really didn't know and were sometimes ignorant. Now that AI is becoming part of the medical field, I know that diagnosis can come more quickly and incompetence or malpractice is going to be reduced
I'm 77 and was told I'm to old for colonoscapy...I guess they think we're not worth saving
This is a little surprising. You are not too old at all. If you have symptoms and need a scope, definitely this should be done.
That is terrible thing to say and I do see patients who are older and have colonoscopies. Get another dr
My gastro says to do colonoscopy until you are 80.
You absolutely need another dr. What this dr said is extremely alarming and careless.
I’m 75 (76 in April). My last colonoscopy was six years ago (a benign polyp was found). My gastroenterologist told me then that I should have one in six years, which is this year. I’m a breast cancer survivor so I’m considered high risk for another cancer, hence the more frequent colonoscopies. I hope to continue getting colonoscopies until I’m 90 (should I live that long).
I hope the many people who have been misdiagnosed or dismissed by doctors etc, go back to them and let them know the damage they have done by not taking the proper steps to get a diagnosis. If they do this then they may just stop the chance of it happening to another person, and make the doctor more aware of the importance of being thorough.
My sister had a similar experience.
For over a year & a half she had became increasingly more constipated, and was having horrible pain in the left side of her pelvis. Our family has a history of endometriosis, so the doctors were focusing more on her woman parts, and for over a year, had several ultrasounds looking for ovarian cysts and even had a hysterectomy, but the pain and constipation continued. At one point she had even said to her doctor "could this be my colon? Could I have a blockage or something? Should we do a colonoscopy?" She was told "ah, you're too young, you'd know if you had a blockage." The doctor pretty much told her she was constipated and to go home and take Miralax as often as needed.
She finally talked the doctor into doing a colonoscopy, and turned out she DID have a blockage! She had a complete blockage of her sigmoid colon and a large tumor on the outside of it as well... and it was FULL of cancer! At this point she was stage 4. She had surgery a few days later to remove the tumor, a portion of her colon, some lymph nodes, and a small section of her liver, and was put on a colostomy bag.
Statistics say that she should not have a colonoscopy because she was only 42 and relatively healthy otherwise. Even though she had brought it up SEVERAL times, it was dismissed. This could have been detected MONTHS before IF THEY WOULD HAVE JUST LISTENED. She continued to fight for 5 months, and unfortunately, was sot as lucky.
Point is, if you know something is off with your body, DEMAND testing!! DO NOT let doctors tell you you are too young! Colon cancer is NOT an old person disease, young people are getting it too.
PLEASE pay attention and get checked!!
I am so very sorry for your loss..
Our contaminated food & contaminated everything nowadays! GMO FOODS , FOREVER PLASTIC CHEMICALS! PROCESSED FOODS ECT.
My sister-in-law’s younger sister had breast cancer at FOURTEEN. She had to have both removed via radical mastectomies, radiation and chemo. She was lucky and recovered.
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I am so terribly sorry
Medical gaslighting is insane and getting so f'n ridiculous, dear lord
You are absolutely correct.
As a retired RN in critical care and then I became a wellness expert later in my career. I believe that patients know their body and it’s up to us to find out what is wrong when a patient feels there is something wrong. Your story is compelling. Thank you for sharing it.
I am so glad that this turned out well for you! It was so brave of you to advocate for yourself. My wife had been complaining of a severe cough for nearly three years. She knew something was wrong, but the doctors dismissed her saying that she had allergies. One of her doctors even told her of course you have a cough, you have allergies! Well... they were all wrong! December of 2023 she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, she had never smoked. by the time she underwent her series of testing they found that it had spread to both lungs, abdomen, lymph nodes, bone, brain and muscle tissue. She had two weeks of radiation, and two weeks of an oral cancer treatment. Throughout her treatment she was in steady decline. She opted to stop treatment Feb 9, 2024 and passed away Feb 12, 2024.
I’m so sorry about your sister.
@@sallyintucsonhis wife sweetie ❤hey everybody please ask Jesus into your heart today while you still have time ❤
God bless you.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Why are so many symptoms being dismissed by their doctors. Our Healthcare is getting worse and worse.
I am so sorry for your loss, it so so wrong how Dr dismiss men and women's intuition. I also have had a cough for 2 years rib pain back pain and have started to see blood in my urine and stool with abdominal discomfort. I had a exray which I was told there was scar tissue in my lungs.... then when I told my Dr I was seeing blood he said I will send a referral for a GI they would be calling me it's been two weeks and have heard nothing. I will be calling in the morning to raise cain
Sorry you had to fight and fight to be taken seriously, all while the cancer clock ticked away. You knew your body, and you’re clearly very inquisitive and smart; you saved your own life!
Canadian here who also was sure I had lymphoma - some type of it - because I had symptoms. My GP rolled her eyes when I asked for testing and told me I didn’t have lymphoma (based on what?) and should focus on a bad leg injury. Anyway, after I finally got tested, I had Stage IV non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. If I hadn’t pushed, I’d be dead, and so would you be if you hadn’t advocated for yourself. Stay well! Love from Ontario. 🇨🇦
Im going through the same right now. I have been going to the dr for a year and a half with symptoms of lymphoma. Finally got an ultrasound in a month after pushing and pushing and persisting I get tested for more than just blood work. I have never felt so gaslighted in my life! I hope you are doing well now..
@@dandelions2414 Keep advocating for yourself! When mine was finally diagnosed (by my great female oncologist) as Stage IV, docs found a big tumour in my chest laying along my aorta; obviously they removed it, but no one would have caught it had I not fought for tests. It’s also in my bone marrow, but I did some chemo and am now on weekly immunoglobulin therapy. Be well! 💜
Glad you are here and healthy sharing your story. My brother went through two different kinds of cancer in the past ten years. He’s doing great and just turned 60. Keep rocking on Sister and pushing this message👍👍👍👍
Thank you for sharing your experience Courtney. I am fighting to get tested after change of bowel habit and enlarged abdominal lymph nodes. I’m waiting for result of a CT scan. The waiting is agony.
Hope your ok
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Last night i spent 10hrs in ER waiting for result of tests and CT Good news for me-diverticulitis,so far
@@GalinaGalinaxo I had diverticulitis and it almost killed me. I wish I had been referred to a surgeon but I wasn't taken seriously.
@@A---ti3zz What a surgery did you have?
Doctors here in Canada are the same, won't listen to their patients, and it makes me angry. You shouldn't have to beg to be sent to a specialist. I'm glad you are doing well.
Great video. You helped thousands of people.
I argued for myself. I am not ignorant nor do I come off that way, yet they treated me like I didn't know anything. I almost died.
They didn't listen to me and I almost died. You can listen to your body all you want but it doesn't mean you are going to find a doctor in time that will actually listen.
It isn't ok. I am tired of doctors betting my life.
You are SUCH a trooper!! I believe that your students are very fortunate to have you for their teacher. Bravo!!
Thank you for sharing your cancer journey. Stay positive. Keep being strong. 💪🏾✌️🙏🏼🎗
It is SO IMPORTANT to learn to advocate for yourself. Great Job for pushing!
You are so fortunate to be a strong willed, intelligent patient who doesn't stop pushing until you feel comfortable. So young to have figured out what you have to do if you want the system to work for.
Excellent video. Courteny's story and advice impressed on me how we need to know our body, how it is when well and also when not well, and not back down when advocating for ourselves. She is an inspiration.
You are awesome and way too nice about those doctors of yours!! Best of health and happiness forever going forward!!! ♥♥♥
Prayers for mental and physical strength and healing. I am a neuroendocrine cancer survivor and just passed my 3-year anniversary. I totally understand where you are coming from. We have to be our own advocates as I too had issues with doctors not believing when I was literally sick. Stay strong fellow survivor.
good for you to not let it go. You are a great advocate for others!
I hope you informed the Dr's that dismissed you, making them AWARE, to NOT IGNORE. Glad you didn't wait. Your final Dr must have been shocked when firstly dismissing you then see cancer. So glad you pushed this. ❤
Thank God I don't live in the US! My family doctor got me an appointment for a colonoscopie within 1 week because I had some blood on the toilet paper, some difficulties emptying my bowels and have lost some weight. Stool sometimes to soft, sometimes to hard, sometimes not all gone. I was 38. They found some polyps. Now I go every 2 year for control. My public health insurance took care of all the costs and still does. The same for back pain. MRT scan straight away. This was 4 years ago. Now I will be sent to a 5 weeks Rehab for psychosomatic treatment to prevent burn out syndrome after sowing first symptoms of cronic stress.
Where do you live?
I have listen to several of these testimonies re CC and Courtney's is the best so far. Just explains everything so well. I'm sure she is a good teacher. Thanks
Thank you for sharing your story. Wishing you all the best for a healthy,happy and long life X
Bravo to you and please continue to advocate for yourself 🙏❤️🙏❤️. .
Excellent description of your health journey. I believe you would be a great doctor!
I've been dismissed for the same symptoms for 7 months now. It's been awful. Completely degrading. I'm now at a point where I can't eat, severe pain and blood just pours out like water and I'm on blood thinners. No one has even wanted to order blood work. I almost gave up. I'm exhausted. I finally got a doctor to order a colonoscopy coming up in 2 weeks. Never stop. They'll continue gaslighting you til you die if you let them.
Good luck. Keep fighting
I hope you soon have answers! 🤍
@@cpwwjd69Thank you. I refuse to give up.
what were the results?
@@jonaya9944 long story somewhat short, my colonoscopy/endoscopy checked out “clean” however, I was/still am having “problems”. Since then I’ve had several imaging tests done and have been checked for so many other things. I will come back to this comment to give a little more detail after my visit tomorrow 4/30/24 with a colorectal surgeon. To date, I still struggle with the same symptoms listed in my original comment. I’m hoping for better answers after tomorrow’s visit. It’s been a long road, thus far…
Good advice from a strong women.
I agree with you a person knows there body better than the doctors they should listen but a lot of them don’t listen and run you in a circle.❤❤❤❤
I want to know what these doctors say when they find out you were right? Maybe you aren’t able to speak to the previous doctors you saw in 2020, but for sure the one you had to practically beg for the colonoscopy. This is ridiculous. Have watched video after video where the doctors dismiss the patient.
They usually always dismiss us especially if you are younger and skinny like she said it’s very frustrating I’m going through this right now
Yes I’ve seen story after story where they ignore young people you would think they would learn their lesson by now.
The doctors that were dismissive and gaslit me never apologized or acknowledged that they hurt me and nearly killed me. They doubled down in their arrogance. You are probably thinking that there is some kind of great lesson learned...in my experience there isn't. They also kind of turn into bigger jerks presumably because they think they are going to get sued
My daughter was having stomach issues for 2 years. No bleeding but very sick after eating or drinking certain things. Severe constipation. She became underweight because she was so afraid to eat. She was an adult but still young. 21 thru 23 yrs.
Every Dr she saw dismissed her symptoms or diagnosed her with heartburn, GERD or reflux.
It was so sad to watch and feel so helpless.
They eventually sent her to a GI . She did the same thing. Dismissed her.
No endoscopy was done, no tests at all.
My daughter figured it out on her own after tons of research. Thankfully, it wasn't cancer, but
She has gluten intolerance.
Allergies were never discussed with her.
Drs just seem to put everyone under the same umbrella. Not all doctors but some. Definitely the drs my daughter saw.
She looks better and feels better. She's a different person! That was 4 yrs ago.
@@bdlimea7018 I’m glad she is doing better. One of the first things my doctor did was test for celiac and other allergies and intolerances! I can’t believe no one did that for her. You definitely have to be your own advocate now a days.
Good luck! 🙏🙏
Blood in stool can also be anal fissure and/or haemorrhoids does not always mean cancer
As a retired internist I fully appreciate your unnecessary delayed diagnosis and the less patient friendly (more expensive) anesthetic agents you were given. IMHO, multiple factors for this include direct (financial) and indirect (performance reviews) for primary care givers to reduce referrals, the use of "advanced practice providers" in lieu of fully trained physicians, insurance interference with patient centric medical practice, care giver arrogance (ignorance driven), physician beat down by insurance and/or corporate health care systems, et. al. Empathetically, my prostate cancer diagnosis was delayed by insurance refusing a CT directed biopsy and initially undergoing only blind biopsies (known to miss 50% of cancers). It sadly is what it is. You are most correct - you are your best and sometimes only advocate.
I agree with most but not all of these comments. I work in primary care with 2 MDs and 2 NPs. My NPs have better f/u of their patients and follow through.
No need to bring APPs into this. How many physicians overlooked her symptoms? She'd have fared better in my APP hands than theirs.
This woman is so smart!!!!!
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For You and All
You likely saved your own life Ms. Courtney, through your polite insistence that you receive the proper test. I am so bothered by the No. 1 trend we see among patient stories on this channel- patients’ concerns being dismissed by their doctors.
SELF-ADVOCATE!! As Ms. Courtney and so many other patients on this channel have described in their own stories. It’s almost as if getting to the correct diagnosis is as difficult as enduring the often brutal treatments, especially chemotherapy. I wish you only the best and a lifetime of negative scans and cancer-free medical conclusions. Once is enough for anyone.
Omg! So frustrating. I hope you file grievances against them all.
The health care system in America seems very complicated.
Here in uk we don’t have routine colonoscopy at any age. However if blood is detected in your stool it doesn’t matter what your age is you go for colonoscopy.
In Canada as well. My husband told his doctor that he had blood in his stool and he went in pretty quickly for a colonoscopy
It's so exhausting to be struggling with doctors. I'd like that they listen 👂🏼 and help us to get the right diagnosis. I feel exhausted. 😢
I will never understand why doctors refuse to do further diagnostic testing when you mention a concern or ask for further evaluation. This isn’t 1954 anymore. Patients are far more educated than in the past.
You can’t help but wonder how many people die because of medical paternalism and physician egos.
I hate when doctors don't listen to us. I don't know if it their ego's or if they all think that it's in our heads, but for crying out loud, they could have killed you! You were bleeding and probably very tired from the anemia. You had symptoms of colon cancer! I would go back to every single doctor and tell them that they could have killed you. My son is having some bleeding for over a year now and I am worried sick about him. He finally saw a doctor and the colonoscopy can't come soon enough...
11:10 Not eating raw fruits and vegetables is due to having a compromised immune system. Fruits and vegetables are also mostly terrible foods for weight gain. It's also more important to meet macro nutritional requirements before worrying about micros, which can be supplemented for anyway.
Hugs!
Prayed for you today. I am very suspicious of the medical field. There is plenty of reason to 'not' ["trust the science"] For one reason, I am an RN and have personally seen many bad practices. Also, ever since the whole cv19 horror- seeing the little support that doctors gave for refusing the jab is unconscionable. Unfortunetly, money is more important than people in this world.
I tried so hard to get either a referral or further testing and kept getting refused. Finally I said I want to see you write in my chart that I have requested further testing and that you have refused. Guess what? I got my referral. I have cancer.
bless u
Ppl need to understand that so many of us didn't get stage 1 diagnosis > my diagnosis finally came at early stage 3, but I am actually very understanding bcx it is NOT racism, not " by design," it is bcz sometimes they really didn't know and were sometimes ignorant. Now that AI is becoming part of the medical field, I know that diagnosis can come more quickly and incompetence or malpractice is going to be reduced
They should have given you the colonoscopy immediately. Younger people have been getting colon cancer. Sending healing wishes for you.
All! Thank you for your kind comments! Let me clarify…. I had a stage 1 tumor in size….. the tumor was not very big. That being said, since I had cancer cells in one lymph node I was staged at 3A.
Did you still have an appetite while you had symptoms and did you have difficulty going when you had to go.
Those doctors need to be sued, with those symptoms you should’ve had a colonoscopy right away unbelievable
That's exactly what happened to my mom.. same cancer type, location, the surgery, the chemo...
you should sue all those doctors that dismissed you and playd with your life. im tired of hearing about these doctors who doesnt give a crap about their patients.
Also diet causes alot of stomach and intestine diseases and cancers. We should be connecting the dots with type of diet these patients were doing before diagnosis. That is probably a main source of the cause.
I have seen an influx of vegans getting colon cancer. Can you explain why this is happening?
There are two factors that drive why younger people with your symptoms are not automatically given a colonoscopy for diagnosis:
1 - doctors are trained to rule out diseases based on probability. Given your age, health status, family history, other diseases have a higher probability of being the cause of your symptoms. So higher probability causes are ruled out first before moving to lower probability causes.
2 - insurance companies need to approve procedures like colonoscopies. They won’t approve them until higher probability causes have been ruled out. Unfortunately that process takes time and as in your case, sometimes low probability diseases are ultimately the cause.
As more and more younger people are being found to have colon cancer, the probability of cancer as a cause of symptoms is increasing. It’s not that doctors don’t believe you, are dismissive because you are young or female. It’s all about probabilities and insurance companies. Not to say there aren’t doctors who are dismissive. But the bottom line is it’s about numbers. Probability and cost.
I’m glad you are doing well and wish you good health in the future. I’m a four year stage 3c rectal cancer overcomer.
Another thing.....There are doctors that think women are just imaging things 🤨
I am so afraid of colon cancer. I’ve had stomach problems for 9 years. My aunt died of colon cancer. Colonoscopy and endoscopy came back clean, and no celiac.. Allergy tests came back completely opposite of my symptoms. I hated the GI telling me “it’s just IBS.” I look 7 months pregnant after eating certain foods and I can’t figure out why.
SIBO?
@@eternalperspective4136 I’m in the process of changing my diet and hoping this will end the suffering 🤞🏽
I had colon cancer when I was 40. In 2017 stage one. my cousin even had her both breasts removed because of cancer.
Question- How is this stage 1 if a lymph node was positive? Apologies if I misunderstood. Thank you for sharing and wishing you continued health!
That's Stage 2C at least, according to cancer org.
Says 3A on the description
@@A---ti3zz Interesting. In the video, she said she was told it was Stage 1 because it was small and had "only" gone to one lymph node.
All! Thank you for your kind comments! Let me clarify…. I had a stage 1 tumor in size….. the tumor was not very big. That being said, since I had cancer cells in one lymph node I was staged at 3A.
I'm disgusted with most doctors.
same
Beautiful woman , be your own advocate
I had a colonoscopy when I was 12! No family history of cancer. Ulcerative colitis.
Wow. She teaches at the same SD as my cousin in Othello.
Please people, don't hold back on telling doctors what you need. It's YOUR body and the consequences of not dealing with illness on time affects your quality of life, NOT theirs.
People, stop being scared of doctors, they make PLENTY of mistakes, but theirs have an impact on someone else's life. I work in the health industry and the amount of lazy doctors available is alarming.
I’ve seen so many of these videos and people don’t explain what their exact symptoms were.
SAY there is a family history of cancer. I had a hospice patient whose colonoscopy was negative. She had other abdominal surgery and there was a tumor on the outside of her colon.
General practitioner isn't the type of doc you go to for bowel issues.
In a lot of countries, you need a referral from a GP to see a specialist.
In Canada, it is typically the starting point.
Over and over again women's concerns are dismissed.
I think more because of her age, not whether or not the patient is male or female.
It's because she's young. Plenty of men get dismissed by doctors with the classic "You're too young to have cancer" as well. Doctors have this archaic outdated delusion that if you're young you can't get it.
People, whether or not they are women or men have their concerns dismissed.
Please stop being sexist.
Good for you for continuing to push the doctors and advocating for yourself. BTW the appendix is part of the immune system; a doctor should know better than to remove a health appendix. Shame on that doctor.
It baffles me she said she had good insurance and yet they didnt want to pay for the right meds. Over here the insurance for those working in the district is almost the whole paycheck when you dont work as a teacher but still high like they were making 6k a month smh
What would be better? To have a colonoscopy or do the stool sample test at home? I think its called Colon Guard?
I am very low on iron even after taking a supplement so my doctor feels i should have a colonoscopy but told me to do the at home test you send back of stool . Thats all the symptoms i have. Im 56 yrs old
DRs shouldn't dismiss any symptoms that could be cancer in this geographical region. Many get cancer from that area.
I’m going early May to get my consultation and the waiting and waiting is hard. I’ve had symptoms since December like blood but as of January I wasn’t anemic.
Go to an urgent care and tell them you want a ct scan. That is what I did because my colonoscopy is not until July 1st.
I hope you get good news. As I’m sure you know, blood, especially bright red blood, doesn’t always signify colorectal cancer. I had a LOT of blood several times before my last two colonoscopies (several years apart). Turned out to be from internal hemorrhoids. Never yet had CRC. But I’m glad your colonoscopy will be relatively soon.
How can you be stage 1 with one positive lymph node 😮
They got that bit wrong, they were at least 2C.
@@iseeyou1312Who’s “they”? There is only one woman.
My daughter-in-law was stage three - had 5+ lymph nodes.
For breast cancer at least, stage I means no lymph node involvement (and under 2cm). Those were the parameters 24 years ago.
All! Thank you for your kind comments! Let me clarify…. I had a stage 1 tumor in size….. the tumor was not very big. That being said, since I had cancer cells in one lymph node I was staged at 3A.
Let’s also be clear. There is no such thing as “thin privilege” in medicine. Doctors routinely dismiss serious symptoms in thin patients because they assume health in thin people.
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What type of symptoms were you having?
Blood in my stool and fatigue
When you see the comments from doctors you feel like the majority are the good ones and just a few unlucky ones got to the "wrong" doctor. Yet a story like this one and multiple dismissals of her symptoms show the exact opposite. I don't care how many years you had to accomplish your education, you're not "know it all" and you're just humans. So listen and act. Can't forgive my moms misdiagnosis and a year lost going to about 10 different "specialists", the arrogance and blatantly telling her she's imagining symptoms. She's two years gone but the bitterness and sorrow are still here.
Did your neuropathy continue or did it resolve itself after you stopped infusion Chemo?
For the most part it has gone away!
Damn gaslighting doctors. My Sigmoidectomy didn’t require a liquid diet.
@gowanderlustwit. Should be fasting for about 6 hours? Just had one last week. Plus an enema.
I had a lower anterior resection of part of my colon!
7:45 If colon cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes then it's at least stage IIC.
Thank you for your kind comments! Let me clarify…. I had a stage 1 tumor in size….. the tumor was not very big. That being said, since I had cancer cells in one lymph node I was staged at 3A.
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It is a fact that women are dismissed far more than men.
and young people are dismissed more.
Tell that to my brothers. They have been dismissed more by doctors than I ever have. So I call BS on your comment.
@@kristymarie6059 There is research that supports whatthey wrote.
As a student of medicine I was surprised when I learned the original AMA was started by 7 businessmen not doctors. Men were studied and diagnoses for women were just halved. This included medications, etc. Let that sink in 😵💫
Doctors do not have the same survival instinct that you or I have until serious illness happens to them. So they learn to live with the fact that patients die and that is a part of their occupation. Erring is not so dramatic to them. They live with it and move on.
Fukushima Daiichi generation. Cancer for many 😢
Watching this from Walla Walla WA…this scares me with this doctor crap.
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You were anemic because you were bleeding not that the blood was feeding the cancer
Obviously, she was bleeding, but the blood was feeding the tumor. I think that's what she meant to say.
Why do people are afraid of colonoskopy ? Weird. ?
I just took your appendix too?! What?..
All boils down to money just like everything else, how pathetic has this world become
Nevertheless she preserved.
Persevered rather.
Please I need help! I'm suffering from awful cancer pain and I cannot have medication or treatment because I cannot pay for the medical exams to have access to government cancer program. This is not a spam message I'm a real person. I'm a 26 year old woman who lives in Brazil, I don't have family or friends to help me with this! If you can kindly help! I'm desperately searching for help!