Re: I feel like my rearend is going to drop off

[Guest guest]

, I am so sorry that you have to deal with this. As if this

disease does not do enough to us. Can you call your doctor and ask???

Perhaps if you got another doctor or ask one of the nurses they could

give you an answer that would be different from the first one that said

it is just normal. Blah, Blah. Ingrid

> I have a colostomy bag, and sometimes I have some discharge from the

> part that not longer works. Perfectly normal blah blah. But this AM

it

> felt as if someone stuck a hot poker up there. Aspirin helped. But

> does anyone have an idea WHY this is happening now? My rectum is the

> site of the original tumor, but that tumor is just nub now. Or is it

> just one of those things we deal with colon cancer? What a

humiliating

> disease.

>

> Thanks for listening to me whine!

[Guest guest]

It is called proctilitis. It can be improved with acupuncture (appt

tomorrow). But in the meantime aspirin is helping a bit. I am running

a fever and have horrible chills... so who knows what is going on. I

started my 8th round of Xeloda. Never had a reaction... could be just

old fashioned illness?