What where your symptoms?

Looking back, by Halloween, I was starting feel really tired.  I was able to take the kids out for 2 hours trick-a-treating but afterwards, I was pretty exhausted.  I also started noticing some bloating in my stomach but I usually get bloating in my stomach during my cycle but this time, it just didn't seem to go away.  The GI doctor asked me after I had been diagnosed with colon cancer, if my stool had changed.  Looking back, I did notice my stool becoming more thinner and maybe more lighter in color, but other than that, I really didn't notice anything and I didn't have any pain.  Looking back, I did notice that I had less of an appetite but I thought, "Perfect!  I've been wanting loose a few pounds anyway."

Couple of weeks after, I started feeling something right below my rib cage that started bothering me and that caused me to go to care now.  I've had fibroids before, and I thought maybe I had another one growing but it was really high up in my stomach.

From there, I was sent to get to CT scan, where it was reveled that I had Stage 4 Colon cancer that had spread to my liver.  What I was feeling was my liver that was very swollen from the cancer.  Currently, most of my symptoms, extreme fatigue, loss of appetite and the swelling of my stomach stems from my liver.  Even though my colon is blocked (they couldn't get a scope through), I still don't feel much pain there.  So, for now, as long as I can still pass stool and gas, they will concentrate on my liver and see if the chemo can get my liver to function better.

I feel like this week my energy level has gradually started to increase and is very grateful for that.  When I first came back from the hospital, I didn't even have the energy to watch TV.  Compared to that, I feel so much better!