8. Frequent Bathroom Trips
We’ve all been in situations where it felt like we were constantly visiting the bathroom. In some scenarios — such as when someone has fallen ill with something like the stomach flu — this is normal, even if it is really very annoying.
But going to the bathroom a lot shouldn’t be a daily ordeal. If it is, it could be an indication that there’s something wrong with the digestive process, perhaps involving the colon. People with colon cancer sometimes go to the bathroom excessively because cancerous polyps or tumors are preventing food waste from being easily flushed out of the body. The result is a persistent feeling that one has to go to the bathroom, even if it hasn’t been that long since they did so. If this problem sounds familiar, talk to your doctor about being tested for colon cancer.