Hello! I am a 49-year-old male. Five years ago, I had a change in bowel habits that seemed unremarkable to me at the time, although I should have guessed otherwise. For about a month, my stools were slightly greenish and covered in clear mucus. Then one day I noticed blood in my urine. I went to the emergency room and was treated with antibiotics for a urinary tract infection. It cleared up, but in the immediate aftermath, I felt great fatigue and a feeling of "presence" in my upper left abdomen. That feeling is here to this day. I went to the doctor quite a few times during this period. That was about 4 3/4 years ago. A variety of tests and examinations showed no palpable mass, normal CBC, low SED rate, and slightly elevated serum ferritin levels. I went to the doctor so much that I got to the point where I couldn't bear going any more. So, for years I just continued to live with symptoms that have included partially digested food in my stools, loose stools, stools that appeared to have stringy stuff hanging off of them, upper abdominal discomfort, and fatigue. There have also been times where my lymph nodes - especially on the back of the neck, under the jaw, and in my right armpit seem to have some kind of involvement. However, they never stick out or feel enlarged, neither to me or my doctor. At one time, I felt a real burning just to the right of the sternum at what I assume is the site of a lymph node for about a day and then it was almost like a mini-explosion, and within a day my lymph nodes in my neck had a great feeling of "presence" or "involvement" although they were not enlarged. The abdominal discomfort has continued and has progressed to where I have generalized pain throughout the thoracic region. Recently, I have been going back to the doctor. They've run CBC - normal, chest x-ray - normal, liver function - normal, EKG - normal, upper abdominal ultrasound - normal with the exception of an enlarged spleen. However, as I said, the pain and discomfort have progressed. I am only really comfortable now when I am laying down. Within a half hour of getting up in the morning, I am feeling the upper abdominal discomfort again. I sometimes have a stiff neck, and I've also been having some lower back pain. I realize I should have persisted much more during the early stages of this, but I didn't. Now, I'm pretty sure that I am in the later stages of some type of cancer. I'd kind of like to be able to go in to the doctor and point him into a specific direction so that I can get my affairs in order, get pain meds, etc. without having to jump through too many more hoops. Also, I should note that while I have never seen any evidence of blood in my stools, I have never checked for occult blood. What are the most likely possibilities? Colon cancer? Stomach cancer? Lymphoma? (MALT or other), Pancreas cancer? The enlarged spleen and the feeling of involvement in the lymph nodes has me thinking some gastric lymphoma could be the cause, but who knows?