Good News and Bad News, Carcinoid Cancer (2)

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Johns problems began about ten years ago not serious ones more worrying. He started getting hot flushes after eating about once or twice a week, they didn’t last long but we couldn’t understand why as it is usually women who suffer from them.

He also started getting diarrhoea more often than is normal but we put that down to something he had eaten or perhaps a bad pint in the pub on his weekly nights out.

This continued on slowly getting worse but he would not say anything to the doctor. About four years ago he started having really bad bouts of what he insisted was gastro enteritis. This included terrible sickness and severe pain and it lasted for about a week, during that time he refused to eat and lost a lot of weight.

Finally I managed to get him to see sense and talk to the doctor but we had no joy, he said it was nothing to worry about and quite normal for men to get the hot flushes but he sent him for an endoscope to make sure.

This came back as normal so we stopped worrying.  Within a few months he was taken seriously ill and rushed into hospital, it turned out to be peritonitis and when he recovered we assumed that had been the cause of all his problems.

In the following weeks the flushes and the bad bouts of pain and sickness began again, taking place about every three months or so.  Again a visit to the doctor and John was sent for another endoscope and other tests including x-rays, these came up as clear but he was given tablets and pain killers. (will be continued)