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I was diagnosed with Stage III colon cancer 2 months ago. I am a 38 year old female. Since the bowel resectioning, I have only had 2 chemotherapy treatments because of rectal pain. After a Lower GI, Small bowel x-ray, CT scan and signoidoscope, the doctors are perplexed as to what is causing the pain. I have been put on a stool softener to regulate the bowels but it doesn't seem to be working. There are days where I will have bowel movements every 10 to 15 minutes for hours on end. The pain just prior to the bowel movement is like a hot poker being jabbed into my rectum. The stool at this time is normal. On other days the pain in still there, but the regularity is not. Do you have any insight as to what could be causing my bowels to continue to produce such erratic patterns, and/or what I could do to ease the pain. I'm having a very hard time trying to resume any semblance of normalcy in my life because of this pain and I can't imagine dealing with this pain until after the 6 months of chemotherapy is over, which is what I'm being told I just might have to do. There has to be a better solution.