My Stage 4 Cancer Came Back: I Didn't Think My Symptoms Were Cancer! | The Patient Story
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- Michelle Cappel was first diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer in 2017. After successful treatment, she was NED (no evidence of disease) for two and a half years before the cancer returned in her leg in 2020. She has undergone multiple treatments including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery to remove the tumor in her leg.
Michelle emphasizes the importance of being your own advocate, educating yourself about your disease, and getting screened regularly for colorectal cancer. She talks about the anxiety leading up to scans and the survivor's guilt she feels when others with the disease pass away. Michelle finds purpose in sharing her story and helping other patients, saying we need to talk openly about this disease. She wants to live fully and make every moment count, not knowing how long she'll be able to defy the odds.
Part 1 of Michelle's Story: • Michelle's Stage 4 Col...
Full story & transcript → www.thepatientstory.com/patie...
Contents of this video:
00:00 Introduction
00:17 My symptoms: I pain in my leg
03:06 Getting scans
04:03 Learning I had a reoccurrence
06:41 My treatment options
12:51 Undergoing physical therapy
17:14 Living with stage 4 cancer
19:38 Survivor's guilt
22:24 How I live my life now
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I love the term “survivor’s compassion.” I never understood why people have survivor’s guilt. My surviving my breast cancer or dying from it doesn’t affect other people who had a breast cancer. As for your being less worthy of surviving than someone with kids, our society tells women, in so many ways both subtle and obvious, that our worth is in our being mothers. Nope. Of course it’s very sad if children are left motherless by cancer, but it’s equally sad when anyone else dies of cancer. And always worth celebrating survival of everyone who was diagnosed and is still alive.
I wish you everything good.
I lost my husband to colon cancer in March of 2016. He was diagnosed in August of 2014. I. just wanted you to know that not all cancer journeys end in pain. During Mike's journey, he experienced NO PAIN at all! He never took any pain medicine. I hope you have beaten the odds and remember that everyone's cancer battle is different. Don't spend your time worrying about a pain that may never come. Sending you positive thoughts.
I am so sorry for your loss
My wife recently hot diagnosed with Stage 4 colong cancer. It has metastased to her liver( 3 lesions found, 2 are 1.7 cms each and 1 is 5 cm. A primary tumor has been found on her left breast. 6 months back docs admitted her for complicated diverticulitis and delayed colonscopy twice as her pain would not go. Only after she got high fever recently they admitted her in Emergency and subsequently after scans they said she has cancer. Please pray for her as she starts this long ardous journey to beat this disease.
Stay positive and hopefull! My mom was diagnosed 6 years ago with stage 4 colon cancer and by the grace of God she is still here and fighting. Her last CEA is 3 ! No signs of cancer! She will continue with every 3 week infusions and Cts every 3 months for the rest of her life but she is doing well and is always grateful for every day more she has!
Can i ask u a question please , what investigations she did at first to know if it has metastasized to other parts? And what was her CEA levels before any treatment?
Her CEA was 9 at the beginning. But threwout the first couple of years it got as high as 35. Been in the 2 to 3 range for the past couple of years. She had a stroke which caused them to and hemoglobin was high so she was bleeding internally so they did a colonoscopy and found it
@@shaanasnider8381 oh ok , hope she’s doing alright and everything’s good , sending love ❤️
Very well presented. As a surviving Stage IV Colorectal Cancer patient, I could relate, especially to the Survivor's guilt. Maybe I will call it, Survivor's compassion. I like to learn something new, every day, and today I learned from this young lady. Thank you!
You are a heroic woman! So calm and rational as you share your story, though of course you’ve had to deal with so much pain and fear. I’m so grateful to you for sharing your story. You are a wonderful woman and I send you love and hope.
Sending big 🤗 and prayers 🙏🌹♥️
Your amazing you are so straight to the point . I have cancer that’s come back and for us single people who live alone … you keep it up as long as possible but agree with you about kinda knowing you will die from cancer … I’m hoping you never do ❤❤ your a beautiful person
Thank you for posting this. I am a colon cancer survivor and just passed my 5 year milestone. I ended up getting diagnosed Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome from having survivors guilt. It was such a real thing being 70 at the time and just Stage 1. I couldn’t understand why I was spared and so many young people haven’t lived their lives yet. It also made me lose any religious faith I might have had.
U are alive and well . Praise God ❤Sometimes we need to not question Gods plan , as there is a reason u are still here , even if you don’t why just yet .
All my families dead from cancer by 38 to 51, BOTH parents dead at age 49, 3 of my mom's siblings dying from stage 4 lung at the SAME time, I'd just had a simple scope go home next day go WRONG hrs later my artery ruptured where they nicked it and wasnt aware, I was in hospital and needed blood just to stay alive to the O R., ICU said pnumonia, embolism, total blood loss, which caused DEATH on table but they got me back, call in family she won't make it, I didn't have family, I was a only child, parents dead at age 49 both of em, and my mom's siblings were all sick and dying 800 miles away from me..i was 32 yrs old with two small kids!! I.c.u. long time survived, got well enough to go see my family BEFORE they all died, I told em what my Lord did for me, against Drs opinion. In a major trauma hospital, they said no she won't live, Jesus said YES I would, that was 25 yrs ago, they all were dead on mom's side by 51, I'm now soon to be 58 praise God. I'm disabled , I have p.t.s.d. depression, anxiety, and MANY physical issues, but I'm still HERE, and as I ask the Lord to save me, because believe me, u ain't seen no BLOOD, till u see it gushing out of you from a ruptured uterine Artery!!, I ask him to let me live to raise my kids , which he has done, NO Dr or staff on earth that day could of saved me without divine help and I KNEW it as they out me to sleep and I knew, NO HELP WITHOUT U LORD..i have a son near 30 now, and has had epilepsy for Round 28 or more yrs, WILL have it for life Drs say!! , has had so many busted head knocks, ruined shoulders that BOTH need surgery now, broken collarbone, GRAND MAL SEVERE SEIZURES but my god has brought him thru 30 yrs of life, and HE has all his mental facilties, NO brain damage from the seizures or head knocks, ..I'LL stick with Jesus till my dying breath, God bless❤
I am sorry you lost your faith
@ritazwicker3426 I'm just the opposite. If it were not for my great faith, love, trust and prayers to my Lord Jesus, I could have easily lost my mind. My only daughter died within 8 months after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive Ovarian cancer. She had two MAJOR surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, blood transfusions, etc. Nothing could stop it. She was a nurse and her little girl was almost 5 when she passed away. That was 7 years ago. A year after her passing, I learned that I had gallbladder cancer, stage 3b and in 3 lymph nodes. Treatment? I got the works and a heinous surgery. By the end of my treatment, a PET scan showed that I had breast cancer, stage 1. Back to the drawing board. I developed mild PTSD but I never blamed my Lord for everything that had happened. I was 65 when it started and my daughter was only 43 when she passed away. My daughter also kept her faith the entire time. My granddaughter is 12 now and is the love of my life. God has been so good to us and has been there every step of the way. I will see my sweet girl again in Heaven one day. It was just her time to go. Please let go of any bitterness and sadness. The Adversary will use it against you and make you miserable. God still has a plan for your life. That's why you are still here. Jesus loves you and He wants to be your Lord and Savior. Ask Him into your heart and life. He won't disappoint you. God bless you. I will pray for you.
@@theresawebb8064 i am moved by your faith. Faith moves mountains. Never give up on God. He carries us when we can't carry ourselves. I am walking in faith with cancer and God is carrying me right through this awful waiting period as i wait for the treatments to start. God has taken this cancer to a level I could not bare without his help..the mental fight going on in my head has ceased. I am living and letting God.
I’m going to explain something that may not be obvious to most of the people, even to doctors. During the PET scan, patients receive small dose of radioactive glucose. This lights up cancer cells all over the body. Why not other fluid and why not other solutions like saline? It’s because glucose is directly pulled inside the cancer cells. In the normal situation glucose is delivered to healthy cells with help from insulin. Cancer cells pull glucose directly from blood without help of insulin. Cancer cells are like a sponge and there is no mechanism that would control how much of glucose enters cancer cells. The primary reason glucose is pulled inside a cancerous cells is because it is their fuel. Cancer cells have mutated mitochondria that do not respond to oxygen anymore but instead they ferment glucose. This is a key element. Glucose allows cancer cells to divide and grow. Our bodies convert things like pasta, rice, potatoes, bread into glucose. In fact all carbohydrates are converted to glucose, including vegetables and fruits. Animal protein like red meat are converted to glucose depending on our needs and there is not enough glucose to go around to sustain cancer cells. This is science and it is frustrating that medical field knows about glucose & cancer cells connection, yet it is widely ignored. After all PET scan uses glucose because it enters cancer cells!
You just said what I would have said....
WHY are the doctors not saying anything...
This is the PROOF there is an ignorance out there that money is MORE important than health..
Thomas Seyfried PHD
Dr Brad Stanfeild..
Dr Matthew Phillips
David Harper PHD..
Dr Ken Berry proper human diet
Dr Shawn Baker..Carnivore diet.which I have been doing 3 years..
And so on and so on...
You have to have glucose to live it’s unavoidable! I’m a type one diabetic and I still have to have some sugar or you die
@@jenniferbowie2773 it is true that human body requires glucose however it is blatant lie that we are required to eat sugar in order to live. Human body makes glucose through process called neoglucogenesis (in liver) and it uses various elements including protein to maintain certain level of glucose that deems to be appropriate and necessary. The level of glucose is regulated internally and it depends on our needs. The problem for our bodies is food that we eat that turns into glucose and this is where insulin steps in. However most of excess of glucose is converted into fat (triglicerides) or its is removed with urine. I do not eat any carbs and I can assure you that my body maintains fairly constant level of glucose. I even tested my blood glucose before meals and after meals every 15-20 minutes. The blood glucose levels never increased higher then 10 points. I'm alive and I did not die because I did not eat pizza, rice, bread etc.
@@talktomenowxbmc I totally agree again… when will people work this out.. Doctors need to stop lies at tell the truth…
@@brucemaher7621 They are more than happy for a cancer patient to be sipping on a Cola while sitting with the chemo IV rig hooked up... Insanity...
Thank you for sharing your story! You may save someone’s life. Sending positive healing thoughts to you and holding you to the light! 🙏🏻❤️‼️😊
Thank you for sharing your story. You are literally saving lives by sharing it
Thank you for sharing. My sister is battling leiomyosarcoma. She is also experiencing many of the things that have described. Many blessings for continued health!❤
I hope all is well ❤ you seem not only strong, but well informed & do your homework ❤
You are a hero girl! You deserve life , you own it immensely, keep on fighting and laughing, you are an inspiration .
Thanks That's great to see how strong you are, I had too have Operation 3 times, but hopefully all will be well, your story is very encouraging ❤
I don't know how this woman went through all this. Thank you for sharing it is very informative. And you are helping many people with these videos. I really hope you can beat this cancer.❤
Michelle you are an absolute Giant! Sister-in-law is terminal, likely less than 2 weeks now but you have given me such comfort. I don't know why. Talking about it so openly and frankly. THANK YOU.
She’s my current fifth grade teacher 🎉
Cut, burn, poison treatments. Scans and radiation- 😮cancer risk. Cancer stinks. Thank you for sharing your experiences and candor. You are BEAUTIFUL and I wish for you healing, remission, strength and good health.
Thanks for sharing your story to help others
Thank you for the sharing. You are a beautiful and true warrior. Cancer brings so much fear, so much pain.
Thanks for sharing 😢
I KNOW you’re gonna be fine! Your altruistic feelings about others says everything! Many people feel your realness and are praying for you. I don’t even know you and you’ve made such an impact. Keep doing what you’re doing and you will recover. God bless you!❤
I’m a breast cancer survivor. I know you mean well, but one of the many bad things about cancers is that we can’t be sure that our disease won’t kill us eventually, even decades post-diagnosis. No one can say accurately, “You’re gonna be fine.” Even our oncologists can’t say that. We hope we’ll be fine, of course.
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I respect and appreciate your comment. And, you’re right. I can’t accurately say that. I merely wanted her to know that I think she’s handling herself extremely well. I knew a wonderful woman, an incredible teacher, mother, wife, friend, etc. She had breast cancer and beat it, for a while. I was living in Israel and put a prayer in the Western Wall for her. Ultimately, she passed away. I was distraught. I pray that you stay a survivor.
Praying for you 🙏
Hi your amazing and should be so proud of yourself…. I totally relate to a lot your saying about your feelings my cancer has come back again … had chemo again then op then radiation now starting targeted therapy. I’m single have no kids and my mum my closest friend passed away with cancer …. I really wish I could talk to more single alone people as I sit at appointments looking at people with husbands kids parents and feel very sad and do think the same as you …. I’m hoping it goes well for you thinking of you and sending all my love ❤
Just want you to know I think you’re strong, amazing, beautiful, adorable. I wish you all the best. Stay strong, sweetness!!! All my love and prayers! ❤
I love how you took no platitudes from your doctors. Your story, that it came back in a nerve stunned me. Thank you for sharing your journey. Sending you prayers and healing thoughts. Stay strong.
My best friend passed away at 48 years old of Colon Cancer. I will pray for you❤❤❤❤
Colorectal cancer is caused by eating sugar....
Great personality Hope she’s hanging in there ❤️🩹
I love apyour videos, you are educating so many people. Thank you
So important to listen to your body!
And for the doctor's to listen to the patients.
@@susanford2388 yes!
Thanks for sharing your story. It means a lot. I'm getting my colonoscopy in 2 weeks.
I perceive that the feeling of guilt is very strong with you. Perhaps QHHT or Hypnotherapy would help. Have a beautiful and good life! ❤
You are brave and you are still alive. The Lord may want to keep you around longer. 🙏❤️
Thank you ❤
One of the concerns of radiation is the chance of getting a different kind of cancer from it.
That’s a concern with chemotherapy as well. Most cancer treatments come with a small risk of a secondary cancer.
I did and my second cancer ,the first hospital and doctor. I went to wanted to do chemo and radiation and I left there immediately I mean immediately and one of the doctors said well. I have another doctor, but I know the drill they would’ve tried to talk me into it once I’m there and then I would’ve been stuck.
So I had my doctor set me up with another hospital and doctors and I told them right from the start. That radiation wasn’t part of my plan so if that’s what they wanted to do then I have to go elsewhere and so it wasn’t. And they did surgery and chemo , the chemo was first and then the surgery I just finished that and I have my final CT scan in September so we shall see
Mustard gas used in Chemotheraphy and Radiation from all sources including those from medical screening devices such as X-rays, CT scans, PET scans and Mammography are listed in the International Agency for Research on Cancer as known human carcinogen (cancer causing).
@@mbd2901 vitamin c Infusions work much better than chemo with zero side effects.
@@mbd2901 "Mustard gas used in Chemotheraphy and Radiation from all sources including those from medical screening devices such as X-rays, CT scans, PET scans and Mammography are listed in the International Agency for Research on Cancer as known human carcinogen"
All vegetables have dozens of carcinogens! It is much more important not to eat any plant sht than not to do a PET scan!
You are very brave 🙏🙏🙏
It's so amazing that you continued working the way you did, during your acute stages! You are a very strong woman. 2 John 2:Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
Recently diagnosed stage 2a Colorectal cancer patient. I get the guilt ...I am feeling it now ...that you went through so much gaslighting. Although I did not have symptoms - I knew something was wrong. I had a bout of food poisoning which coincidently mimicked and ticked all the boxes for CC. To my surprise...the fit test came back highly elevated e.g. 200 although there was no visible blood in my stools. Colonoscopy was booked within a few days ...and I knew from the images it was Cancer. Staging scan and colonography followed. Under an amazing surgeon at UCLH ...and will be having a hemicoloctomy via robotic laposcopic method.
Inspiring story of resilience ,my prayers with you and there are TH-cam channel like MK lovlif who lambast against cancer patients and their families.
She laughs at the misery of cancer suffering.... can't we do anything about it?
Do you have to have contrast in vein with Pet Scans?
I just got diagnosed with alot of different polyps..God bless u
As an oncologist nurse and a current cancer pt (remission for10 yrs, it cane came bac. 5 weeks of radiation it was no where on my PETSCAN yet my IGM had a slight election. So treatment then became chemo which I didn't want to do . Radiation is precise it does not destroy good cells. Chemo is systemic which mens it touchs every part of your body. Only side effect I had from radiation was a little tiredness and some skin darking which he gave me cream for. Chemo made me anemic, nauseous, cold. When in the summer your ac is on 76 and your your under 3 blankets something is wrong lol. Also dropped 55lbs the first month. Give me radiation over chemo any day! Good luck. Fight the fight!!
All the best sweetie ❤❤❤
I’m doing SignaTerra, too.
My dad had something wrong with his leg he got where he couldn't straightened his leg and they couldn't find anything and it spread.
Does this mean that to help fight cancer one should only eat meat, at least for a while ?
NED- No evidence of disease. This was a new term for me.
Please please get screened early. I don’t care if you have to lie of symptoms, I did, and at 39 had a large precancerous polyp that if left, would have turned and my doctor said 5 years you would be dead.
I think the type of cancer you have dictates how often you see the surgical oncologist. I had BC and see her twice per year. Starting seeing her in 2014 and was diagnosed in 2019. Because my sister died of BC, my primary doctor wanted me to be under the care of a surgical oncologist. Before cancer, I was seeing her twice per year and after cancer twice per year. A bit more after surgery and then back on schedule. Now, because I didn't do conventional treatment, I only saw oncologist maybe three times. Several before surgery and once after.
no all Stage 4 is the same. you may be free from it eventually. I have been cancer free for 2 years following my Stage 1 diagnosis that eventually went Stage 4. I've never received chemo/radiation or immunotherapy. And i remain cancer free with CEA in the 1s and ctDNA negative all scans clean not a thing out of place.
Your oncologist becomes your husband/wife. No one has seen me naked more than my husband and oncologist.
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People are talking about detoxing and using mushrooms and they’re having wonderful results. Have you tried it?
What kind of mushrooms, curious what I should buy for a detox. Thanks
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Jesus loves you so much. When I was depressed and anxious, Jesus saved me. I talked to Him in my pain and He answered. He wants to hear you voice too. He sees your pain. Talk to Him. He took me out of a dark place and now I see His light in my life. Jesus wants to save you as well. He died for my sin and your sin, and wants to give you a new and awesome life and hope in an eternal future with Him. You just need to believe in the death and ressurection of Jesus and give your life to Him. If you have any doubts about giving your life to Jesus, answer this comment. Sending lots of love.
Did she already post this video? Or is this a new reoccurring cancer.
I think the first video was related to her colorectal cancer. She was then NED. It came back in her leg. This video is related to her leg.
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Praying for a healing for her amen try cannabis oil and thc for cancer and worm medicine for animals amen
"try cannabis oil and th"
Complete BS. As long as you eat sugar nothing will help.
I 🧡 you. I pray for you in Jesus' name.
You made it sound like your cancer just now came back, that was 2 years ago.
Using Planet Ayurveda cancer medicine was a pivotal part of my healing journey. Their holistic approach sets them apart.
amsn sisters.,
7:48 "because I always been so healthy" - No, you weren't - if you have an colorectal cancer you were not!
But it is not your fault because what have been pushed as "healthy" in the last 100 to 150 years actually is what makes us sick...
Yup, low fat, high carb is not always healthy for everyone
@@TheShumoby "low fat, high carb is not always healthy for everyone"
it is never healthy.
overweight does not always equal unhealthy.
You know, cancer is bad, I know it, you know, from my own experience (mother), you know. I wish, you know, that this disease, you know, wouldnt exist, you know.
" I wish, you know, that this disease, you know, wouldnt exist, you know."
You would have to ban sugar if you wish that...
Yeh we know
An incredible journey true survivor a beautiful lady inside and out let's share and all fight for a cure fellow survivor huge hugs 💘💌💯🙏🦸♀️🦸♀️🦸♀️
Are you vaccinated?
Had stage 4 stomach cancer after the pandemic and nope I’am not … so please stop linking the two and looking for culprit
@YellowPlagueProductions - STOP THE ANTI-VAX/ANTI-SCIENCE STUPIDLY. Just stop. Telling to RFK Jr. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
how many covid vaccines did u take?
What does that have to do with anything??
@@tamiewert808 we are currently in an epidemic of very aggressive turbo cancers spreading since the rollout of the vaccines
@@JonCurtinshe's stage 4. It was coming back, just a matter of when. Not if.
@@sallyostling but the vaccines are like throwing gasoline on an already controlled fire to raise havoc
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