After all this time
After all this time I was diagnosed May 2003 and my treatments were finished by January 2004. I was on Tamoxifen for two years and was changed to Femara December last year.
My question is, does anyone know if it’s normal to have bowel problems this long after treatment? My problems started autumn last year and I thought it was all due to stress. It’s not the Femara, it started whilst I was still on Tamoxifen.
Just realised I haven’t explained what the problem is, I sometimes have diarrhoea, not all day every day but enough to have become a problem.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I realise it might have nothing to do with the cancer treatments.
yes i have a friend who went through treatment 4 years ago and is having a colonoscopy next week . she has suffered from what they termed as irritible bowel since her chemo. they have suggested she takes codine to help stop the runs. she only needs to take 1 30mg a day.
one of the oncs did say it was related to the chemo. wasn’t fec or cmf.
sorry i can’t be of more help.
sharon. x
Me too Ever since FEC and then a pleurodysis, I’ve had problems. I am now hyper reactive to all brassicas and to lettuce, so avoid them. However, i am about to try an aloe-vera preparation to see if that helps the gut and I do use acidophilus as well.
I think it may well be related to the treatments, and that this is an area of research that needs work.
After all this time Thank you both for your help. I hadn’t realised they’d already shown my post, I thuoght i wasn’t ‘safe’ yet.
I’ve been doing an exclusion diet to see if I can find out what if anything might be causing the problem. However I’m allowed all veg and after reading your post Phoebe I’m wondering whether i should test veg too. I have been taking digestive enzymes and am starting aloe vera too.
Seems like a silly question but was it obvious to you that brassicas and lettuce were a problem or did you need any kind of test to find out?
Not a silly question But it was only too explosively obvious. Even the tiniest bit of lettuce would set my gut off, and it was a real bummer to find that broccoli did the same. I have a feeling that faecal testing might be the best way of tracing the culprits, but can’t bear the thought of it at present. What I would really like is to find a way of repairing the process so I can eat what I like again. What a life!