They IGNORED My Symptoms! - Jessica | Colorectal Cancer | The Patient Story
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- An avid triathlete and marathon runner, Jessica faced a shocking diagnosis of stage 4 colorectal cancer that had spread to her lungs, spine, and rib. It took a year of pelvic pain and misdiagnoses, including an ovarian cyst, before discovering the truth.
Despite a grim prognosis, Jessica continues to live life to the fullest and advocates for better awareness and screening for young adults. Her story highlights the importance of early detection and the strength needed to navigate such a challenging path.
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0:00 Meet Jessica
0:56 My colorectal cancer symptoms
3:05 The doctor tried to stop my colonoscopy
4:20 I was given no hope of survival
5:16 I wasn't taken seriously so I advocated for myself
7:08 Changing the approach to colorectal cancer
9:10 Find an advocacy group
10:06 My colorectal cancer treatments
12:40 Medical gaslighting: They thought it was all in my head.
14:39 My chemotherapy treatments for colorectal cancer
19:17 My chemotherapy side effects
20:41 I was in survivor mode fighting for my life
22:23 Find someone who gives you hope
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They IGNORED My Symptoms! - Jessica | Colorectal Cancer | The Patient Story
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I’m so sick of providers relying on guidelines and not listening to individual patients. People are not algorithms! Thank you for sharing your story.
Providers, what we used to call doctors, are now required to follow the corporation “cookbook”. If you want to pay cash find an independent doctor who is still allowed to practice medicine from their knowledge base, not the corporate recipes formulation
Maybe AI ftw
Exactly! It's standard protocol for everyone. That's all they care about and that's how they are directed by big pharma. If they actually try to help people, they are black listed and their careers ruined. It's a sick world.
Totally agree
You are sooo right. I've been in doctors and let them know to pls test me in some issues cause I done my research and they gave me an attitude telling me that the doctor was him, so he do not test me even though I told I don't feel good....that's how it is in this country..they really don't care
This is my story. Bleeding for years and then severe pelvic pain. Multiple ultrasounds and rounds of antibiotics that didn't work. HPV positive pap and no one considered it was cancer. Did chemo radiation and was told I would be ok. I'm now incurable. Hoping for a miracle with immunotherapy.
I’m so sorry, please let God in your heart and HE will always help you with anything that matters, with love and prayers ❤
My brother was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 17. He died 1.5 years later. We have no history of cancer in our family.. We live in Canada as well. RIP Alwyn Barry. A year is so later We lost a friend to colon cancer…she was 27…RIP Allen Riddle. I’m so tried of the narrative that colon cancer is an “old person’s disease” it clearly isn’t.
What are y'all eating?! 😳
So sorry! That’s so scary.
Shocking! I’m a RN since 1975 and never saw a teen with colon cancer.
It's an STD. Colon cancer it's an STD. But it's too controversial to speak about it, because it's an STD that only men can transmit. So it put all the blame on men, and society can't handle not been able to blame women. But look at the research, look at PubMed. Sex with men is very unhealthy. If society actually recognises that, pornography and prostitution will become crimes, because it's the nature of men that is the problem, sex with men it's putric.
No one wants to hear that they died!! Wow
I’m so sorry you’ve gone through this. Have been diagnosed too, after 2 & 1/2 yrs, my cancer specialist said, I’m cancer free, he’ll see me in 10 yrs. Shocked, as I’m stage 2… confronted him, his response is, yes you’re at stage 2 & your cancer free! 🤯 Went to another Dr without saying I’ve got cancer, she removed 3 more polyps 2 months after the cancer specialist told me I’m stage 2 cancer free! It appears this is an issue with Dr’s in every country. Thankful for your testimony!
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Hi! Can you please share what were your symptoms? What made you see the Dr?
@@yummifyit8385 Had anal bleeding off & on, was told it was a hemorrhoid from having my children. After covid, having a colonoscopy, was told a polyp was inside a hemorrhoid. I’d need to go to another surgeon… maybe he can remove it without having a colostomy. Successful, was diagnosed with cancer. That surgeon did another surgery upon my insistence to remove a fissure. It took 5 visits before it was confirmed what stage I was in. It’s been constant gaslighting. Get a copy of every procedure you have for your own privite medical file.
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@@yummifyit8385 Did you see my reply? It seems to be erased
Noone is ever "too young" for cancer.
Well, what if you're a fetus? 😳
@@alphaomega1351 Dumb response
nor "too healthy" apparently 😢😢😢😢😢
@@alphaomega1351babies have been born with cancer
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Interesting. A lot of people think that Canada's Universal Health Insurance is to be envied. This is a another spin on it. Thank you for your transparency.
One downside in a sea of upsides.
It is to be envied.
It happens a lot in the US and UK too, worse int he US because the insurance would not pay for further tests based on your age.
@graciefreebush394 Only if you wish to pass before you are seen... also, there is no such thing as experimental trials for non-responsive cancers here. You can have affordable care, good care, timely care. Now, choose two, because there is no system that has all three.
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What exactly does insurance pay for? 😳
Brave, determined lady.
Getting colonoscopy as a male is so much easier than as a female. Turned 50 this year and I had colonoscopy at 26, 33,45 and just 3 weeks ago. I have IBS that comes and goes over the last 25 years and every time I flare up, my gastro does the colonoscopy. My wife has same issue and can't get any gastro to test her. If you're a woman, it's in your head, it's cramps, it's your diet, its just IBS, its.....
Research carnivore diet for IBS gastrointestinal issues
@@purebride8600 No thanks. I am competitive cyclist eating 6000 calories of carbs per day. I eat 3000 cal on the bike (all sugar)
You could be healed. Eat a ribeye 🥩 Jesus saves
@@troutjunkie7330 hahahaha what a bell end :DDD
Thsnku. They're talking about this a bit more. The gender pain gap. It's awful being dismissed as hormonal all the time.
A recurrent theme with all these experiences I'm seeing and hearing, our doctors are not listening to patients anymore. They hear but don't listen. By the time someone listens or believe you, it's too late. The way medicine is taught and practiced probably need to change
It truly is gaslight, falsify, delay referrals and then gaslight again
I’m so angry! Nobody should have to fight for their health in this way. I’m tired of these young people having to battle for a diagnosis and treatment.
How many Mothers have to die before we decide to treat a person?
NO patient should, when facing any stage of cancer, be forced to take on the role of essentially becoming their own medical director, so they may make their OWN medical appointments with various “specialists” to rule-in/rule-out the top, terrifying medical possibilities on the differential diagnosis list. That is the role of the patient’s physicians, beginning with his/her PCP and ending with single systems practitioners. The Docs and their supposed-to-be-your-advocate social services and nursing staff should do all of this on the patient’s behalf, without delay. By the time most CA patients are Stage IV, they may be critically ill, dealing with intractable pain and struggling just to survive. The patient has final, complete authority over his/her care; to say “Yes” or “No,” but they shouldn’t have to diagnose themselves. This video is heartbreaking and infuriating, because this cancer may well have been prevented and the patient received the Royal brush-off and run-around as she was dying. Perhaps not quickly enough for some of those Canadian doctors. Equally frustrating is that I have heard very similar stories many times before. Too young. Too old. Wrong symptoms- until the sheepish physician divulges diagnosis. This ought never have happened. But it happened to me at age 26 in the States, when I was told no one your age suffers the type sarcoma I developed. Wrong. I wish this patient continued success in her treatment, and I applaud her advocacy. She should be in BC to watch the grandkids graduate college.
Very well said. I'm so tired of having to research cancer info and advocate for myself bc my oncology team seems uninformed and indifferent. I hope you are doing well now.
@@Mia444 : Thank you Ms. Mia for your kind words. I am 20+ years cancer free due to strong self-advocacy. And excellent care, and a bunch of other things I got lucky with, but you get the idea. Please continue to read, research and advocate and question for yourself or a loved one battling cancer.
This makes me so glad for my doctor. I have Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Region here in Maryland and my doctors have all been amazing. This past Fall/Winter I had uncontrollable menstrual bleeding that caused severe anemia and lasted for 2 months. I finally went to my OB/GYN and was immediately given a pap-smear, pelvic ultrasound, and uterine biopsy. It turns out that eventually my symptoms were hormonal and I haven't had bleeding since December on my hormone medication. Then, in the past few months I've woken up with chills and I've been getting pins and needles. I mentioned this to my doctor and asked for blood tests to check my kidney function, liver function, thyroid function, a CBC, a lipid panel, and vitamin tests. I got an email back saying "labs ordered" and within a day I had gotten my labs and results. All labs were normal, so now I need to figure out what is causing my symptoms, but it feels so good to be taken seriously and to be offered the correct treatments when presenting with a symptom rather than being blown off. I am so sorry for all of these patients who end up with stage 3-4 cancer diagnosis due to being blown off. There should be more consequences for doctors who fail to test for things that should be tested for given a patient's symptoms.
So sorry to hear- thank you for sharing your story ❤❤
Take care of yourself and your beautiful girl ❤❤
Because it's an STD, only a man can infect you from HPV directly in the rectum. That will eventually turn into cancer. It's all men fault.
May God Walk every step with you. God gives Miracles everyday🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'm a Canadian and now a US permanent resident. I've never had preventive health care in Canada and at 40 years old I feel confident with the care I'm receiving regularly. I didn't know I had been prediabetic for many years and my mom sadly, due to lack of preventive care in Canada has vitamin B12 deficiency induced dementia. Canad health care is "free" but so Many ppl don't have care until its too late or once something bad happens.
Dame Deborah James in the UK ("Bowelbabe") did a lot of work in this area. She was also suffering for a long time pre-diagnosis, superfit like you and same age. Such a shame.
I’m so sorry you’ve been through this horrid experience! I too am a BC’er. Victoria. My brother is going through end stage Leukaemia. I too have the same mutant gene. My eldest brother passed of Leukaemia. My only sister passed of lung cancer. My mom had cervical cancer which was cured by surgery. Middle brother had different type of disease that killed him. I’m the last one left and who knows what’s in store for the future!
Nobody is too young for cancer!
I’m so happy you were such a strong advocate for yourself and you’re setting precedence for others. You are STRONG!
Sending you and your family warm healing hugs. 😊❤️🇨🇦.
My brother got a letter to give to me if I was interested in being test for mutant genes. Like I said I the same as my brother DDX41 myeloproliferative/lymphoproliferativeneoplasms
You. Are. Truly amazing. Never stop. I believe god is walking with you. You will
Inspire others !!! An amazing. Brave strong lady. I. Say. Never ever stop!! God walks with you. You have a divine mission to make a difference
Blessings to u ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️♥️
This ain't the time to play around with any god nonsense. 😶
Thank you 🙏 for sharing your experience, strength & hope! Thank you for advocating for yourself!
you are an inspiration..your story will save lives! God Bless you
Thank you for your courage and advocacy and spreading the news of options for those who are sick. I wish it wasn't like this, and change will come with your voice. Don't stop!!
God bless you and your family!! Much Love!!!❤🙏❤️
This is amazing. You are a true warrior. It would be wonderful if there was an outline of everything you went through, to include the trials and medicines, obstacles and how you overcame those, etc.
Thank you for sharing your story ❤
You are an amazing person. God bless you and your family. It is exactly right that people have to be their own advocate. More people need to speak up and change this corrupt system. ❤
I'm so glad you're NED, Jessica, and bless you for advocating for other patients. Your daughter is beautiful, by the way. Best wishes to your family always.
You are so strong and so brave!!! Thank you for sharing your story!! ❤
What a wonderful woman.
I got ignored by my doctor like if I was drug seeking. I was suffering. I went in to the ER and they found a football size tumor. I flew me in a mediflight to Seattle. I survived, did not spread, had no chemo, home in 2 weeks. Everyone thought I was going to die, but I just knew everything was going to be fine. I had my Faith in God.
Praise God!!!
Very sad. I'm sorry you endured this and experienced this neglect. Inexcusable. Your baby girl is precious and loves you so much ❤ May you and your family enjoy nothing but blessings and miracles ❤
Thank you for sharing your story.
Bless your heart praying for you...sorry you are going through this❤
My goodness - seems to be a tremendous increase in this cancer and there has got to be a way to diagnose this so much earlier! Our doctors today just aren’t good diagnosticians and, you are right, protocols have got to change! Sending you warm hugs as you continue your fight.
You are so brave & have such a lovely smile. It's very scary how more & more young people getting colorectal cancer lung cancer.
What's going on. There's so many stories so similar to yours. It's outright terrifying.
Thank you for sharing your story and advocating so strongly for yourself and others. I like your theory! You WERE made for this educational mission. 🙏🏻wish you well!
Thank you for sharing your heroic story; our healthcare system is in shambles here in the U.S. as well; very hard to find good, honest, and caring doctors; Thank you for sharing your life with us ❤️🥰❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I live in the US. We have similar issues here. You do need to be a huge advocate for yourself, as Doctors don’t know everything, far from it. The big difference between US and Canada is the extreme expense of health insurance, here. So, whoever doesn’t have money may not be able to afford treatments.I wish there was a happy medium between US and Canada.
That’s not true in my state. Three years ago I went to the emergency room on Christmas Day with Diverticulitis, which I had for 13 years. They checked my records and immediately sent me for a CT scan with contrast and found my colon was ready to rupture. I was put in the hospital on IV antibiotics for 3 days, sent me home on antibiotics for 6 weeks. I had surgery that February 15th and my surgeon removed 14 inches of my colon removed.South Carolina!
@@nancypatterson374 That is not what I was referring to. I have very little issue with my insurance - except that I have had to find good docs, with my insurance, (certain aspects are better than others). My issue is the fact that I have to pay a lot for my "marketplace" insurance because we are in the "middle class" and don't qualify for very many subsidies. At one point, we paid $1500 for 2 high deductible policies and one lower deductible for 3 persons. My husband is on Medicare, now....(thank god) and my son covered through his job. My husband's work place dropped their few employees from coverage. We had to switch to "Obama Care." I am in favor of Medicare for all - or a system that doesn't punish you for making an o.k. living. Sorry this is not the place to discuss health insurance. Just saying it is not hunky dory in the US, that being said - I haven't had an issue with getting imaging because I have very nice docs who are open to listening.
It is. I was dismissed and gaslight for over a year and it ended in a stage 4 melanoma diagnosis. Still having issues with a few doctors but I’m so grateful for the naturopathic doc I starting seeing after the diagnosis. Without him I would be feeling completely hopeless.
In Canada we pay many more taxes than in the U.S. After a certain amount, some people pay 54% of their earnings in income tax. Our gas is higher with the carbon tax and sales tax in Ontario is 13%. Universal health care might sound free but it isn’t and we don’t get proper care or treatment.
Good for you! ❤
So glad you have no Cancer 🙏🙏🙏 My Father and his Sister are My Grandmother all died from Colon Cancer. Glad to see you are advocating on this in Canada 👏👏👏❤️🙏🙏🙏 I am from California
Bloody hell you have been through it! Sending love ❤️
Canadian here. Vancouver-ite. Your experience is frightening. I am so sorry.
Love you, and Hugs to all your family.
This little Lady is a force to be reckoned with, I can tell from her voice how traumatizing a diagnosis like she received is and to tell her there is no Hope? what right does anyone have to say that to her? or to try to take away her Hope? The Medical Establishment is causing so many people to develop PTSD by Gas Lighting patients when the patients knows beyond a shadow of any doubt that they are sick and something is off with their body. I wish this Gas lighting would stop and we the patients could be heard and taken seriously and treated accordingly with Respect. It really annoys me too when if there tests do not show certain red flags for what they are testing one for they just leave it right there , to sit there, they need to continue with more testing and take the patient seriously. I know Government run medicine is lacking , I was told " do not ever try to steer your own healthcare , especially in Canada cause it won't ever work in your favor". A doctor told me this before he walked out of the room and sent me home from emergency , the next week I was in hospital a six cm cyst burst on my Ovary and I had Sepsis.
Wow... she is so young. It seems with younger adults, there's always years or months of medical gaslighting. I demanded a colonoscopy because I could feel something was weird, it was a diverticulosis ... not serious, but also not imaginary.
This is awful, but fighting it is the best way to keep your hopes up! Pray everything goes okay for you. I experienced the same thing with doctors at a supposedly #1 hospital gaslighting me. I would have been dead had I not gone to another doctor at another hospital more patient oriented towards good patient care. I was completely ignored and even almost blocked from surgery to save their reputation.
Too often Cancer diagnosis means patients are rushed and pushed into the treatment the particular Doctor they are seeing knows about, or receives benefit from using. Thank goodness you found a good Doctor who encouraged you to take time and allowed you to think. Its so hard to think when you are given a diagnosis, and you need help to be given ALL the options. Making decisions for yourself puts you in a better place mentally. The irony too, of Doctors dismissing patient concerns for months and months, then scheduling surgeries for the following day is lunacy and utterly disrespectful to that human beings mental and emotional adjustment. Please, do not rush or be bullied, give yourself time to think and find someone you really trust, with experience, to help you make those oh so important decisions. Thank you for your story. You are beautiful inside and out and I send my love and thanks to you. I am a Cancer patient too, whose diagnosis took years.
I live in Canada. I would rather live in the U.S and pay for health insurance. We have very little control over what doctor we have, there are no second opinions here. We wait months for treatment. Some don’t have a family doctor. I have a family doctor but the last time I spoke to her she said she didn’t have an appointment available until 3 months later. We have a horrible system here. If you have a doctor who cares and can get treatment when needed, you are lucky.
You don't know what you're saying. I have seen two instacare doctors, my own internal medicine doctor that I had to fight to see sooner, who gaslight me and told me my symtoms were anxiety, I pushed him to do a CT scan, blood work and MRI, referral to Gastro, while waiting and doing all of this I saw an ENT doctor, then a midwife for gyno check, two eye doctors, and I set two different appointment with family doctors for second opinions but the first doctor is 3 months away, second is next year. I finally saw a gastro ( who accidently revealed to me that my internal medicine doctor didn't refer me when he said he would which was over a month ago btw) who isn't alarmed by the blood in my stool and pain in my stomach. He is claiming I have IBD which makes zero sense with my blood work. I fought him for a colonoscopy and endoscopy but it's in late August. And please remember how much money this is all costing me. Through all of this I have to fight my insurance to pay for everything. I had to get everything preauthorized before getting anything done or seeing anyone. I am terrified that my insurance will decline my colonoscopy and endoscopy because they do that to a lot of people under 45. I have seen way too many doctors to try and get someone to take me seriously because I am only progressing in symtoms. I can't tell you how many people in the US go broke over medical bills. All of our doctors downplay our symtoms. And getting second opinions take forever. On top of dealing with insurance companies. I've been on the phone everyday since I started feeling symtoms.
I am so sorry, I completely understand what you’re going through sweetheart, even as a female U.S citizen. I completely agree the age for a colonoscopy should be determined by the symptoms of the patient Secondary would be an age standards. You are so fortunate to have those organization stand by you and stand by you, support for your health journey. That’s amazing. Many of us do it almost 100% at our own. i’m so so happy that you fought and found a way to advocate for yourself.
I don't understand why doctors keep ignoring the symptoms of patients.
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I had the bad News yesterday, and I thought it was behind me. I had a colonoscopy and it looked all great but the biopsy came back positive. Here I am again starting a diet, changing my work habits and toughing it out again. I can understand how you feel young lady, 37 years old.
I'm so glad you finally got the care you needed. I've been trying to get a colonoscopy for 2 years. I have diverticulosis, and lots of issues with my bowels. I'm in the United States. I think that because I have depression and anxiety listed in my chart the Doctors don't take me serious.
Colonoscopy should be done at patient request if they are too young for insurance to pay but they should also pay for it. My son demanded one, insurance won’t pay so he got an order for cologuard and had to lie about his age! And he paid out of pocket for it, he’s 45.
Thinking of you and your family 🙏🏼❤️🩹
Also a patient of BC Cancer and it's crazy that we have to go to the 5th floor to get our scan results. I know the level of self-advocacy you've had to do and I commend you.
It's insane all the doctors in Vancouver do Is gaslighting and falsify
Years ago I met a Canadian couple on a cruise. The young wife said she was trying to have a gynecological exam she said she was on a 2 year wait list. I will never forget that because I had thought universal insurance was the answer to healthcare.
i mean I'm paying tens of thousands of dollars for healthcare and i still can't see a doctor for months
@@millieyinaski8495 my specialists are booked out for months. i have to see an electrophysiologist and a cardiologist for a serious heart arrhythmia and i have to schedule them 6-12 months in advance. and it costs $300 out of pocket for 15 minutes of their time
@@codymitchell1376THIS! I have the “best” insurance money can buy and I still have to wait months to see a specialist if I go through my insurance. Healthcare is so terribly messed up, I don’t fully understand how it happened but all the doctors in my family say they wouldn’t go to med school now because they aren’t allowed to be doctors anymore.
I'm in Canada. You can get a gynecology exam at a walkin clinic if there's reason. You can usually see your GP within a month. A referral to a gynecologist takes about 2-3 months. But a GP can order a ultrasound or other tests ahead of seeing a gynecologist.
The key is....the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
I had a surgery scheduled for a year out. My symptoms changed and I told my doctor. 1 month later I saw the specialist again, 1 month after that I had my surgery.😉 for FREE.
There are different forms of universal health care systems. Canada, France, UK, and Germany all have different systems. Some better than others for what people need.
Sending you my blessings🙏 and to your beautiful family, adorable daughter and loving husband. ❤Life can be cruel but you have a mother's love in you, that fierce determination to fight and you will be OK my dear. I have you my heart ❤.
Another healthy young person with colon cancer
Because it's an STD, only a man can infect another person by inoculation of HPV directly on the anus. It's men fault. Men carry heavy dark strains of HPV but it doesn't affect them, but the subjects they penetrate.
Happening alot
@@vickieyoung7122it’s because of the 💉
jab?
@@annmarie1689 I don’t at all doubt it
Wow that is so horrible how you were overtly spoken to by these “ medical professionals “
With respect, "changed bowel habits" isn't enough information. It's vague stuff like this which leads to people ignoring symptoms.
Please 🙏 ... be specific. How did habits change? From what, to what? How frequent was it? Etc etc. Details are so important.
Your amazing! I am sending healing prayers for you! Is Dr Klimo retired now? I wonder who the next nest Oncologist would be I’m the lower mainland?
Why have you lost friends & family? Do you mean to cancer or they did'nt want to communicate or see you anymore? I feel for you? I'm amazed at your life's story, keep up the good work? Frm:- South Africa
Im very sorry.
First i so appreciate your positivity, and courage, and i'm glad you've overcome...prayers for your future. But im wondering what CELL TYPE was your cancer? And now in retrospect, WHAT could have been done preventatively to detect your cancer earlier?? As a primary care MD, whose emphasis was on preventive care/early detection of colon cancer(my motto was that NO ONE should die of a "preventable" cancer), i STILL had to STRUGGLE to get patients to do their stool tests, to get the lab to dispense the tests as part of my patients' annual lab work. And though a lot of the issues you bring up are obviously valid, the true logistics are more complicated and multifactoral, and a LOT of providers like myself are quite frustrated with the current medical system. Their are perceptual barriers(patients, providers, specialists), educational issues,INSURANCE is a BIG barrier(they often override a providers request as "not medically necessary").
Differentiating iron deficiency anemia in menstruating females can be difficult. Sometimes the only hint you may have is a linear PROGRESSION of iron deficiency or anemia over time--i once sent a male in his late FORTIES for colonoscopy for this reason, and th GI initially refused to do it, until i pointed out that a MAN has no physiologic reason to be anemic, much less iron deficient...he was ultimately found to have a late stage rectal cancer, but he unfortunately died...
So what SHOULD have been done PREVENTIVELY, DIAGNOSTIVELY for you?? What can providers learn from your journey? I think i might have been mislead by your neg FIT test as well though some colon cancers only bleed intermittently or not at all. Though i would have thought if you were bleeding enough to be anemic that your FIT test would have been positive 🤔.
I had my own business and when i was 45 my knees were worn out. It took 5 years before i finally got my first replacement. I get addicted to DR prescribed opiates to control the pain so i could continue to work. 6 months before i got my first knee my dr abruptly moved away and i could no longer get pain medicine. I had to quit cold turkey as i couldnt afford the medication they substitute. I lost my business due to my addiction.
The system failed me and ruined my life. I have no desire to ever work again. Thanks Canada free health care
Canada's medical system is gaslight and misdirect.
"If you get pregnant, it'll go away"
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I’m in the States and have always admired Canada and considered Canada far superior to the States in most ways. I still think that - except that there are treatments offered to CRC patients here, and those with stage IV can be maintained for years sometimes. Of course, in this country, without government-paid healthcare, our problem is affordability. Btw, I’m no doctor, and my cancer was breast, not CRC, but I follow people who are surviving all kinds of cancers. I think the recommended first age for colonoscopies should now be forty.
I lost my nan ,dad and recently my brother to colorectal cancer lost my son and sister had different cancers who passed five months apart but we have an inherited condition called juvenile polyposis syndrome, i recently had a colonoscopy which they found polyps in my colon,and few other things i had a gastrectomy in 2020, had some bowel removed and appendixs because of polyps.
I’m so very sorry for all of your losses. Sending love from England ❤
Wow. I used to think that canadas healthcare system was the best and an example for other countries to aspire to. Nevermind… the fact they were willing to write her off so quickly is heartbreakind and obvious that there are gaps in the system. These gaps are for cost saving reasons. Terrible. Terrible. Terrible.
A Lot of your Symptoms sound a Looot like Mine … However, I have Endometriosis…. I recently had a colonoscopy and everything was clear thank god!
That’s why the United States has the best healthcare in the world because you can go and find what you need and get what you need going through the exact same thing we got diagnosed right away and cured right away
Oh WOOOW!!! The specialist Told you “
We’re Not gonna find anything?!”
WOOOOOOOW!!!! UHH THAT’s the ENTIRE POINT!!!!????? TO CHECK to make SURE !??
Yes lot of previously healthy young ppl getting turbo cancers since past 3 years....
Healthy young people have been getting cancer since the beginning of time. This is nothing new 🙄
The marathon running is a stressor on the body, which can lead to cancer. The hormonal imbalances exasperates it.
this is the case all the time in this series, the bad doctors who dont care if you sick or not. who dismiss people and do not listen. i dont know at what point these doctors lose their humanity. but if they could get really sick themselves before their carreer started, they could be better doctors and actually care. i think everyone who was dismissed and found out they had so serious cancer case after,should sue these doctors. otherwise there will never be a change, these doctors play with peoples lifes.
It seems more & more globally that one has to be their own advocate. Alas Colorectal cancer is now globally on the rise. Hospitals have to wake up & spend the money on screaming. Money they sorely don't want to spend. But prevention is cheaper than cure. Bless you.
....... their protocols not changing with the rising increase in cancer." THAT PART !!
I'm going through the same thing right now but I'm giving up
Don't give up Jermaine hang in there my man you will overcome your problems 👍
I hope you can sue the pants off of all those doctors who told you it was nothing and refused to scan or scope you. At least your child will not have to worry for money in the future. Only when they start to feel it in their pockets will they stop that foolishness and gross negligence.
There's are several new and promising treatments for Lung Cancer
Lord, reveal yourself to Jess and heal her completely so that she can be here for her little girl. Surrender all to the great physician Jessica! He is your only hope in this life and the next.
Jess, please keep going to see doctors, who are real and can help you.
@@user-dg6gq8gs9nJesus is real and is all powerful. Prayer and turning to Jesus always helps. He has answered my prayers and helped me in times of emergency more than any dr ever has. I'm sorry you are an unbeliever. I pray that you find and know the Jesus that I know. He is coming soon🙏
I am praying for you and your family and I know what you're talking about. I'm going through that. It seems like they're gaslighting my doctors every test I get done. They say it comes back positive but I know it deep down. There's something wrong. I can feel it like I say. We've known our bodies all our life. They've only known us for 5 minutes. I had one test done and ever since I had that 1 Test done I could find out what it was called. I have to get it looked up if you are interested. What was that Doctor's name in Toronto for your lungs? I'd like to get a talk to him for myself. Like.
I said there. I know deep down. Something is wrong with me somewhere. I'm wishing you the best and your family. All I have is myself but I'm going to keep fighting.
Until I get my answers.
God bless you.🇨🇦💕💞
Your little girl is so sweet. Gorgeous hair. Gee u need to be an expert to get help.
Oh no way! She’s Canadian ! That sucks :(
It’s because healthcare is free. But even in USA it’s difficult to get a correct diagnosis
I am reading about so many young people getting the big C. Wondering out loud how many had the Covid shots ?? Seems to be a correlation
Turbo cancers now coming out
Is there any group in Toronto who can help people who are suffering from colorectal cancer??
CCRAN
We can't get colonoscopy in England unless you are ill.
Colonoscopy? Is that what you mean?
@@lesliebaird8011 Yes.
@@pam164 I feel for you.....I had breast cancer a while back and it was such a scare. I was fortunate to have Stage 1 cancer and only needed to radiation. It was caught due to my regular mammograms. I have them once a year. I have requested 3D mammograms, which is not a standard practice. My sister told me about these types, and I asked for them now. I highly recommend yearly mammograms - they have lowered the standard amount to every 2 years (I think). Anyway, I am thinking of you and hope everything goes well in the future.
i live in the shittiest of countries in middle east lol. but to get a colonoscopy, all it takes is to walk to a drs office, whenever you want, and ask for one . and youll be getting it within a few days (just enough time to do the prep lol)
i cant imagine it being any other way, it should not be that difficult
@annipsy2185 No, you don't get one unless you have symptoms, I'm 63 and never had one.
That’s health care in Canada
What kind of changes in stool?
They don't talk about those parts, they omit the reality. They also always leave the part out where they took the Covid-19 vaccine injection. 💉
More diarrhea bent out of shape stool also or even constipation
So many vegans get that! How? We eat so much fibre, so many vegetables and fruit 😢
Because anyone can get cancer. Just because something decrease risk or increase risk does not mean you can or can't get cancer.
You can be the healthiest person on planet and still get cancer. Anyone can get it.
Pesticides on vegetables is a problem for one thing
hahahahaha joke :DDDd
Why did it take so long to get into a cancer Dr?
Thanks Fauci.
Safe and effective folks.
Was this the same Gastro Specialist that was telling you not to bother to have a colonoscopy? He needs to be known......disgusting....he can't see inside your colon....
Everyone from the age of 30 should be having a colonoscopy every 5 years.
She Never stated what her mutation was?
7cm’s and they didn’t remove it?
Rip Jessica 😢
There is always hope , call upon His Name The LORD JESUS CHRIST , He is our Healer , trust the LORD❤