For months before her diagnosis, Krystal had been experiencing sharp, stabbing pains in her abdomen. She assumed it was a food intolerance or perhaps something she had eaten that didn’t sit right.
“I thought it wasn’t anything serious,” she said. “That’s why it became advanced cancer and spread all through my abdomen, liver, and ovaries — starting from my bowel.”
At first, the pain came and went. But soon, it became unbearable.
She described the sensation as “stabbing pains that brought me to my knees.” Eventually, the pain became so intense that she had to be airlifted by ambulance to Alice Springs Hospital in Australia.
Even high doses of pain relief barely touched the agony. “Morphine did nothing,” she recalled. “Only fentanyl was able to dull it.”
When doctors finally ran scans, the results were devastating — the cancer had spread everywhere.
The Symptoms That Were Easy to Miss
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