Hello everyone, I’m a newbie here and unfortunately I had to reach this forum in order to find some answers to my condition… obviously this is a great site and I love that here we can find a big amount of information, but I feel very sad that now all the information that I need isn’t here even though there are people and maybe you can help me and advice me something. So, first of all I’m 30 years old female and I have 3 children. My 3rd child it’s only 5 months old and it is a little bit hard for me to deal with all this. I have a little child (and two others that are 4 years and 7 years old) while dealing with this issue.
Unfortunately not so long ago I found out that I suffer of celiac disease and this make me feel very sad and hopeless. I understood that all the symptoms that I have experienced during some years where attributed to celiac disease. Before this I thought that I manage my diseases very well and that I’m very healthy and happy, now I can’t say the same thing. Not so long ago I found some blood on my stools and I got very worried about this. I called my mom because she is a nurse and I explained her my situation. She was very calm and she told me that it’s a simple hemorrhoid that usually can happen after pregnancy. I didn’t believe her, because I knew that all the time, in all situations she’s calm and rational and don’t panic, trust me I know what I’m talking about. I can prove it by a simple example, when she found out that she has the breast cancer, she never felt it like something very serious, for her it was like cutting your finger, yes it’s a little bit unpleasant but you can’t say that you’ll die or that this is very serious while breast cancer is much more. So she’s that woman. I know that this could be a positive thing that she’s calm but in my case it’s a negative thing and I really think that my mom is wrong. She knows that something is wrong but she prefers to lie and to do her research and to do this without panic. In fact I don’t want to say that she should panic, but to do something.
For some years I suffered from constipation, and I think that this was because of celiac. Now, when I think about this I understand that during these years, when I suffered of constipation I have had some thin stools sometimes but I think that for me was something normal and I attributed this to the constipation or something like this. Now, when I remembered all the past time of my life I understand why they were thinner, unfortunately I couldn’t do it then. I think that this was because I usually used Aloe Vera juice; my doc recommended to me it and explained that this had to help me with the constipation, it keeps you regular. That’s why I never have thought about this entire situation with constipation is so seriously. I really hate this sensation when you suddenly start to understand that most of the symptoms that you have had in past and that you considered that was linked to a thing that you know wasn’t like this. I have had some difficulties with my digestion and serious problems with gas and bloating. This has been going on for several years and after this I just got pregnant with my first baby. Another thing that I remember is that I have experienced some strange pain during my pregnancy.
Of course I thought that this was because of the baby even if it seemed to be strange and really painful, and I never spoke about this with my doctor. After the pregnancy I started to have another type of pain that was more similar to menstrual pain, but I knew that this wasn’t linked with the menstruation. The pain was in my lower left side and that shoots pain very often. I tried to explain this situation to my doctor but I don’t know why all of them attribute all the symptoms that I have to my pregnancy or post pregnancy. I feel like all of the doctors are trying to hide the truth and I don’t know why. It seems like am pathetic and that I start to invent all this stuff but I really don’t understand why they don’t consider this as something serios and to do something that would really help me. When I explained to my doctor that I experience this strange pain he didn’t wanted to do any kind of exams, he was pretty sure that it’s because of the baby and no additional exams where taken…
I was really thinking about doing a colonoscopy but I don’t know how to speak with my doctor and how to make him understand that I feel that there is something wrong and if he don’t take it seriously something much worse might happen. I feel like if I am going to ask him to do a colonoscopy he will tell me that this isn’t necessary and that I waste my time and energy. I’m really scared and afraid not to have a cancer, I think that people that experience such things what I experienced understand me very well. This is weird and I hope that I’m wrong and that all the symptoms are really linked with my pregnancy but they are too much now so obviously I’m worried. I have informed myself about some types of cancer and I did some research on all the symptoms that I experience and that I have experienced in the past and some of them can be linked with the cancer… unfortunately. I don’t know who to trust anymore and how to deal with this. If there is somebody that have the same thing or maybe knows what it could be please help me, because I really feel like I’m by my own alone I can’t do so many things all alone. Thank you a lot.
P.S. English is not my native language and I’m sorry for all the mistakes that you’ve noticed.