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When he finally got one (in his late fifties), it showed stage IV colorectal cancer.
He went through seven months of channeling Uncle Fester, but seems almost completely back to normal, now.
He is much more into taking care of himself, these days.
It’s time to share something personal again. When I was 20, I vividly remember being in the bathroom at my workplace when a large amount of blood started coming out. I did what any smart, effective 20yo would do: ignored it because I was embarrassed. Fast forward 10 years, and I’d been ignoring it for a decade. It had continued to happen every few months. Sometimes the blood was so bad I’d have to wait up to 20 minut…
I've had two colonoscopies done in the last 10 years. The second was possibly unnecessary, but I pushed for it because I just really enjoy propofol. Maybe if more people knew that the sedative drugs used in the procedure are fun, they'd be more inclined to have it done. Edit: downvotes? Really!? I'm 100% fucking serious! Work any angle to get people to test!
It’s time to share something personal again. When I was 20, I vividly remember being in the bathroom at my workplace when a large amount of blood started coming out. I did what any smart, effective 20yo would do: ignored it because I was embarrassed. Fast forward 10 years, and I’d been ignoring it for a decade. It had continued to happen every few months. Sometimes the blood was so bad I’d have to wait up to 20 minut…
Thank you for sharing. I'll share a story to help destigmatize. A few months ago I was taken completely out of commission by GI symptoms, just hours and hours of pain and vomiting. It turned out I had an infection, but the infection caused there to be shapes on my intestine that apparently looked vaguely like Crohn's disease on the MRI (or something, I'm not a radiologist, my understanding is pretty vague. There were…
Might be the skill of the surgeon who did my three colonoscopies (and the fentanyl sedation) but I didn’t fund the actual procedure too bad
It’s quite interesting seeing you own insides and the colonoscope they used for me had a transmitter the the head so you could see it’s shape as it snaked through the colon
This is very common in France. I think all my 50+ acquitances had one. There is a national screening campaign based on sending a sample of your stool, but getting a colonoscopy is a matter of asking your doctor. It is true that colonoscopy is not the first mine of prevention but anyone who asks will get one. Free of charge.
A large screen of everyone over 60 via stool sample. Then ONLY if that shows issues then a CT scan and then a colonoscopy.
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It’s also good know that if you’re seeing bright red blood then it’s a higher chance it’s hemorrhoids whereas dark red you definitely should get it checked because it’s coming from inside your colon. Also there’s supposedly a poop test called fecal occult blood test that has a high rate of detecting colorectal cancer that you do over the course of 3 years. I saw this on nhk Doctor's Insight: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nh…
Advice too simplistic, end of colon can emit blood also and then it’s brighter
Colonoscopies come with potential for complications. There are actually a number of companies which have either released or plan to release non-invasive colorectal cancer screening based on blood dna sequencing. GRAIL, Freenome, and Guardant all have tests out or coming down the pipeline.
Colonoscopies also have a big advantage in that while the doctors are in there, if they see anything forming that is pre-cancerous they can take it out before it turns into a problem that would show up on a blood test. * props to @nwellinghof whose response I stole and adapted
>3. It’s irresponsible to call colonoscopies “invasive” (as CNN did) since that might make people think they are unpleasant and not do them. LOL. It hard to imagine anything much more invasive than having a metal tube (with light and camera) shoved up your arse. It is definitely unpleasant. I speak from personal experience. That said, it is less unpleasant than bowel cancer. So don't be put off if you really need to…
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I've had two colonoscopies done in the last 10 years. The second was possibly unnecessary, but I pushed for it because I just really enjoy propofol. Maybe if more people knew that the sedative drugs used in the procedure are fun, they'd be more inclined to have it done. Edit: downvotes? Really!? I'm 100% fucking serious! Work any angle to get people to test!
I am really curious as to why you enjoy propofol: is this in any way producing euphoria? Normally you should just feel really sedated then pass out, with little difference between this experience and being just tired then asleep. is the large-ish quantity of white fluid getting into you not off-putting?
(Plus I like watching the video feed from the camera. How many other people have seen the inside of their colon, live? It's cool!)
It was totally worth it because I got to watch it live on a big screen TV!
I had a heart catheterization recently. No prep, no embarassment, and only a bit painful where it went in at the wrist and bent at my elbow.
Also super cool to watch!
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Wrong. There is melena, which is a generally unmistakable consistency of black sticky stool (nothing anyone would identify as "blood") that is indicative of upper GI bleeding - not the colon. It doesn't really indicate severity because it may be fast or relatively slow. Both upper and lower GI bleeding can be serious in terms of acuity or seriousness of disease (cancer). However if the internal bleeding from the uppe…
Just a little aside for those doing a search in the future: many things you consume can also turn poop reddish so be sure to think about what you had for dinner if you've just noticed it. For example; beetroot, red wine, berries, stuff with food colouring etc.