Super-Fit Mother, 39, Dying of colon cancer shares the common symptom that she wishes she had not ignored

When Krystal Maeyke began to experience sharp stabbing pains in her belly, she picked them up like a food allergy.

For three months she tried to ignore the always uncomfortable sensations in her lower abdomen, struck her teeth as they grew intensity from a slight pinch to so serious that she was brought to her knees in pain.

The mother-of-one, when only 37 years old, was blissfully unconsciously that she lived with late stage gut intestine cancerAnd the pains that teased her life was that her body struggled to function under a growing network of deadly tumors.

She explained: ‘At first I thought I would be checked for food intolerances. Because I was fit and healthy, exercise daily and eat a healthy balanced diet.

Tests came back negatively to gluten intolerance. But the pain went on. Some days I would be in pain and keep a heat package on it. ‘

But in the end she reached her ultimate pain threshold, and on 30 May 2023 she was flown from her remote house in the Australian desert city of Yularara, in the northern territory, to the nearest hospital 280miles (450 km) Distance.

Mid-Air she received morphine ‘who did nothing did not give nurses powerful painkiller Fentanyl who “began to calm down the serious pain.”

In Alice Springs Hospital she received a series of tests before she got the devastating news that she had cancer.

She said: ‘I have undergone a series of tests. Then I knew it was something serious. I woke up that night by a doctor whose words I will never forget

” Krystal, I have bad news … You have cancer. ‘

“The weight of those words, accompanied by my question” How do you know? “And the doctor’s reaction:” It’s everywhere, “shook me to my core. ‘

Mrs. Maeyke was told that she has stage four terminal metastatic colon cancer, which means that the initial cancer of her intestine had spread to other organs.

And she is convinced that the shooting pains she felt was the cancer that took over her body.

She said: ‘I thought it was nothing sinister. That is why it became advanced cancer and spread through my belly, liver, ovaries and starting at my intestine.

‘I felt every stabbing pain when it spread in my gut with a tumor that almost blocked my intestines.

‘I felt that the clog appeared and was told that it might just be a lymph node. That was the tumor I felt.

‘And while it spread at that time, I felt it reaching my ovaries while the stabbing pains continued.

‘Never in a million years I would think that I would have this cruel disease in my body to kill myself. Cancer hurts. ‘

In the three months before she was flown to the hospital, Mrs. Maeyke – who was ‘fit and healthy’ and has ‘no hereditary cancer’ in her family – other symptoms that can indicate cancer.

‘I started to feel tired all day, every day, but I thought I was just a busy mother. I had irregular bowel movements, but I thought it was IBS.

“I was sweating, but I thought it was the summer heat,” she said.

She has also encouraged people to take nocturnal sweat seriously and to seek medical advice when they are going and are extreme like hers.

‘Looking back now, I experienced a few months before I was diagnosed.

‘I would wake up at night with sweat, enough so that I had to change clothes and sheets. And some nights it would happen a few times.

‘It was summer time and I slept with the Air Con and a fan, so I just thought it was my Air Con that that did not keep the summer heat. So I ignored this sign.

“The relationship between night sweating and cancer is unclear. However, researchers believe that several factors can be involved.

‘The battle of your body against cancer is one of them. Another is changes in hormone levels caused by the cancer and the reaction of your body. ‘

Mrs. Maeyke, now 39, bravely shared her constant fight against cancer TapInforming its 50,000 followers of some of the most important signs – common and less well -known – of cancer, and the steps that doctors have taken to try to extend her life.

She also openly spoke about the most difficult part of her situation, the well -being and the future of her son, Maison.

In one Gofundme She went on to try to create a financial pillow for her family during her illness and beyond, wrote: ‘The true weight of my struggle is not in my own pain, but the potential loss for my 12-year-old son, Maison.

‘A vulnerable child who might miss the love and presence of his mother. Maison who witnesses the toll who is and will take on is already a challenge. He longs for my warmth, guidance and relentless love – a love that threatens to steal cancer. ‘

A recent worldwide study showed that the percentages of colon cancer in fewer than 50-year-olds rise in 27 of the 50 countries.

England is on average an increase of 3.6 percent in younger adults every year – one of the highest increases registered, with around 2 percent rise among young people in the US.

Although it is known that the disease is linked to obesity, experts have noticed that it also seems to prevent it in fit and healthy patients.

Some believe that the explanation must be in environmental factors that young people are exposed to more than previous generations, such as plastics and even pollution.

Signs of colon cancer include abdominal pain, a lump in the abdomen, bloated and feel very tired or short of breath.

Bleeding from the rear passage, or blood in the stool, occurs when cancer tumors bleed in the digestive tract.

However, colon cancer can also appear without symptoms until it has spread, where it becomes more difficult to treat.

In general, it is expected that just over half of the colon cancer patients will live 10 years after their diagnosis.

But all types of cancers increase in young people.

In a milestone survey, Cancer Research UK investigated 50 years of NHS data and discovered that the risk of cancer development has risen sharply, especially among young people.

In these demographic diagnoses, to 23 percent had risen in people aged 20 to 49.

Researchers are still trying to investigate factors that are the increase in early starting cancers, with some modern diets, exposures to microplastics or a combination of different triggers, can be fault.