Woman Who Thought She Was Suffering Indigestion For Two Years, Later Diagnosed With A Serious Disease

Your health should never be taken for granted and sometime what you may feel are minor symptoms can turn out to be more serious cases of disease. One married woman 33 learned the hard way when she thought her symptoms of indigestion and stomach ailments for two years was only due to stress and her food truck diet. Instead, it turned out to be stage 4 colon cancer.

1Cases of colon and rectal cancers are rising

Colon and rectal cancers are on the rise and Diana Zepeda is among the rising number of young men and women being diagnosed with the disease. Almost 85% of people with colorectal cancer end up being misdiagnosed with symptoms of other diseases. 

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2She would live of food trucks

Diana Zepeda 33 lives in Washington DC and works long hours as who works as a finance professional. Since she never had time to eat, she would tuck in anything available from stalls and food trucks in her spare time. Soon she started feeling the consequences of her unhealthy lifestyle.

Even her friends started developing intolerances over food and because of her work stress and lifestyle; Zepeda’s stomach soon started giving problems which was inevitable. Within six months, Zepeda was to undergo the worst trauma of her life ending up with half her digestive system removed, radiation and sessions of chemotherapy. 

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3Since she was active and healthy, she didn’t realize anything was wrong

Zepeda works for the Interstate Hotels and is a bright cheery woman with a slim lean physique but today she has a scar from chemo ports on her chest. Zepeda even exercised a few times a week and was an active woman who considered herself healthy in a general sense. She didn’t expect anything wrong with her body. 

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4She blamed her symptoms on food

Zepeda is among an alarming rate of young people who are lowly developing such dangerous diseases assumed to be conditions that only affect the aged. It all started with infrequent bouts of diarrhea which she suffered for two years. She casually blamed it on her diet.

Zepeda’s job required her to maintain long hours of work and thus lunch was a grab and eats from whatever source she could get which invariably turned out to be food stalls, food trucks and fat food joints. Her dinner also happened to be takeouts almost every day.

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5Plagued with diarrhea

Along with her unhealthy eating, her diarrhea plagued her incessantly and started to get more frequent. She soon needed to take off from work which kept stressing her out.

“I figured I'm not in my 20s anymore, I can't just eat whatever I want without consequences and this is my new normal,' she said. 

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