I am now 20 and have had pain right below my left rib cage for over a year and a half now. It’s a very sharp pain. Just recently it has felt like a bruise, when nothing visible was there. sometimes it will feel like there is a cut right below my rib, and still nothing visible. These pains will come and go, sometimes lasting days sometimes minutes. I thought of the pain as a broken rib on my left side protruding through my external oblique. I went to the doctor and had an x-ray and they found nothing at all. I can feel an abnormal bump..all most like the last false rib was turned sideways, but again the doc could not feel what i can. Just recently my fiance felt it, assuring me that I wasn’t over reacting. I feel that I have some sort of digestive problem. Although I’m not sure if it relates. I think (DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW) that there is a problem with my parastalsis after I eat. Instead of burping, it’s like I growl. The air slowly comes back up bouncing off the walls because of the waves caused by ongoing parastlsis when the food has all ready been passed through. Also, my bowl movements are not always regular. Sometimes I do feel constipated when I shouldn’t because my diet is pretty much the same. I have looked at an anatomy book and the colon is located directly in the area that hurts, But I’m not for sure if that is what it is. Please help me figure out what is wrong. I have found several others with my symptoms, but yet they too have not found any diagnosis. I feel so helpless and frustrated.

What I mean is: we can easily get a pregnancy test from a chemist – so why not something similar for cancer? Cancer is more treatable the earlier the diagnosis before it spreads to secondary areas. More young people are getting diagnosed with bowel cancer for example. Why is there not more programs focusing on awareness and early diagnosis, which would help save lives as localized cancer in the early stages is easier and more likely to be cured with current medication and technology available….hmm?

Hey, I’m 15 years old and I have has these bumps of varying sizes around my anus for a few years now. I never really minded them, because they never hurt or annoyed me. Teey very in size, the largest being about this big: ( ) and there are a few others on the opposite side and in other nearby areas that are as small as ( ) or (). They are all fleshy feeling, and I heard that cancer is usually solid. Sometimes these bumps feel internal (Or possibly just not swelled up), but at other times (Usually while and after pooping) they are external and I can feel them around the anus. They are usually the same color as the surrounding tissue, but I think last night when I checked one was more reddish and stayed out and slightly itchy that night.

They really don’t bother me, I just want some kind of diagnosis from peoples’ experience. Please don’t just tell me to go to the doctor. I know I probablly should, but it’s to embarassing — especially if it’s a false alarm…
I should mention: I just checked, and I don’t believe that the bumps are moving internal. I think that they are just small and sometimes swell. A polyp wouldn’t change size, would it? So it is more likely hemorrhoids?

Im worried i may have it. I was wondering if you could tell me the symptoms you had and how severe it was and how long did you ignore it before going to the doctors?

Did it get worse over time? Give me as much information as possible, thanks.
Just to add, im 18 years old and being worrying about finding blood on the toilet paper for 3 years now.
Iv ignored it for 3 years because i dont want to believe it could be anything serious, its too embarrassing and i hate how they diagnosis Bowel cancer, with scopes going up your butt….

it? and when you got a colonoscopy or they did did it show negative for awhile until you finaly you finaly had a positive result that you had a mass? Why are colonoscopys not that reliable when looking for cancer for a person under 40?So I am curious to know if you had bowel cancer or got it and you kept getting a normal reading for awhile until you got your diagnosis. Please your answers will help me. Thank you very much.
jjj netti, you were very fortunate to have found yours early. Not everyone finds out in time. sometimes results can be either a faluse positive or a faulse negative.