A woman is sharing her story about how doctors made her out “to be crazy” regarding her symptoms before she finally received a rectal cancer diagnosis.
Heather Barry, a 36-year-old Boston mother of three, chronicled her health journey with Today, revealing that she started to experience strange symptoms just after giving birth to her third daughter in May 2023.
She told the outlet that she constipated all the time and had “bum pressure,” hemorrhoids and blood in her stool, but her primary care doctor allegedly just kept prescribing her stool softeners and told her to eat more fiber. But then the constipation got so bad that she all but stopped eating and lost close to 30 pounds by fall 2023.
“I had bleeding that was happening 90% of the time whenever I would go to the bathroom, and very little [stool] to none would…