Hello all my dears. This is for the ist time I'm posting in this group. I delivered baby in 2019 after just 3 months I was diagnosed with CA colon and severe pancollites. I woke up from surgery and they did right hemicolectomy and wanted me to manage rest of my colon with meds. But post surgery recovery was a nightmare. 12 rounds of Chemo and trying every med to control my diseased colon. Steroids took me over,Imuran,biologics and what not. I couldn't recognize myself in mirror. Just after 1 year I had relapse and was now stage 4 with metastasis to ovary. Again went through surgery laprotomy to remove tumor . I begged doctors before surgery to took my colon out as I had more side effects and suffering from ulcerative collites than the cancer itself. But when I again woke up from surgery they took ovary out but my colon was there. I got furious and frustrated . Surgoens said your colon doesn't look too bad. It can be managed by meds. Which again followed by more chemo . Due to chemo side effect particularly diarrhea, I quit it and decided I would die if I would continue this way. I consulted naturopath/steroid but again same suffering. MY colonoscopy shows ulcers etc but not that aggressive. But I'm steroid dependent and doctor wants me to again try different biologics. I'm lost don't know what to do. I'm afraid of recurrence. But for sure ileostomy surgery does cross my mind. Kindly advise me .what should I do? Should I again force my doctors for surgery or should continue trying meds?
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