Cancer Selfies

Monday March 25, 2024

Talking about poop

I love talking most cancer stuff, but heck do I hate bowel movement stuff. So I'm going to talk about it so I can get over it.

I had a BM around five hours ago, and it still hurts enough that sitting is uncomfortable. My oncologist and nurses are aware, there's nothing to be done for now (asside from pain killers, which I did forget about until just now). This is just my life much of the time now (and has been for weeks).

The cancer in my prostate has spread to my rectum at the time of surgery, June 2023. I have no idea how related that is to my pain, but it certianly plays a role in some of my other plentiful BM problems. At least all the results I got today were neutral-positive.

From the comments

James Petrosky: While I'm here, I've had diharea basically every day since I started chemo in November, probably for a month before but it's just not possible to remember all that. Imodium works, but it's expensive and you've still got to go sometime.

James Petrosky: In the hour after I woke up but before I got up, I had five BMs. They were all uncomfortable and hurt for the next ten minutes. This is the worst I've had, but is pretty normal for late in my chemo cycle these days. Early in the cycle is all chemo diahrea, which I think is as good as it gets now