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3 - 5 years since diagnosis
Interview 13  

Interview 13

Age at Interview: 35
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 32
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with colorectal cancer 1998, under went surgery and chemotherapy.


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She realised what was wrong when she saw a piece about bowel cancer on television.

 



I went to the GP and she thought I had something like an irritable bowel or piles or something along those lines so I had quite a lot of drugs sort of like codeine and things to try and settle my bowel down.

She did agree then to refer me to a specialist but the appointment was quite a long way away so I decided to go privately. So I went privately to see two consultants both of whom thought, one thought there was a bit of a problem but would probably settle down after I'd had the baby and the other one really thought I had an irritable bowel or something along those lines.

When I had my baby that was in September, obviously I was very tired still but then you assume that, when you're a new mother you assume that you're going to be tired anyway and the symptoms continued.

I'd actually seen something on TV which really made me concerned. She'd actually had bowel cancer and she was explaining that she ended up, by the time she was had seen something, by the time that she'd actually realised there was something really wrong she was saying that when she was going to the toilet it was like sort of a tube of toothpaste and I know that sounds a bit horrendous but that's actually what it ended up being like for me.

So I did keep going back to the doctors and they thought there was nothing really seriously wrong but they did book me in for an appointment finally to have a barium enema which was in the December.
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