A 20-year-old lady who received a terminal cancer diagnosis described the early symptoms of her sickness.

Just before turning 21, Dominique McShain was given a devastating illness last year.

When Dominique was diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer, she was a third-year psychology student at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dominique has been sharing her health story on TikTok since doctors gave her a one to five year prognosis.

Dominique promised to’make a difference’ and spread awareness about her cancer and its symptoms in her debut video, which she posted on the subject in May 2024.

Dominique discussed what made her aware of health problems in a different video.

She discovered that she was “fatigued all the time” when she started her third year of university and that she “wasn’t taking anything in” in her studies as a result.

“I’d have a normal night’s sleep but then sleep another five to six hours every single day,” Dominique continued.

“The other thing I had was blood in my stool. I kept switching between constipation and diarrhoea and normal [poo], but I always had blood in my stool. That was not fun.”

Dominique was concerned that doctors would discount her concerns if she went too soon, so she waited three to four weeks before being checked out.

When her blood was finally drawn, the results showed that her liver blood was “abnormally high,” but her general blood was fine.

When her doctors noted some changes after a second blood test, they advised Dominique to get an ultrasound. She had some’massive lumps’, the scan unfortunately showed.

She also began to get stomach pains prior to the ultrasound, which caused her to lose her appetite significantly.

Dominique went on to say, “I got real dizzy standing as well,”

She kept feeling sick, so she eventually got a biopsy, which revealed that she had cancer.

Dominique has provided a tragic update in recent days and has continued to update her 194,000 TikTok followers on her development.

Dominique’s illness has progressed and spread to her lungs, according to a message she made to her profile.

Oncologists have estimated that she has only one year to live because of this. Dominique described the heartbreaking news as “like getting re-diagnosed again” in a follow-up video.