If this is the worst medical procedure you ever have, lucky you. Compared to most, it is very easy. There is always some discomfort, some indignitude, and often much worse.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
I can’t even imagine asking some of you how you feel about prostate cancer, vis-à-vis just draw my blood doc vs. that plus “like having things up your butt”.


It’s 2018. Huge strides in medicine in past decades. Use all your weapons to stay alive. If not for you, for yours.

Read the fine print on these new colon tests and you will see that these tests are NOT recommended for those with a family history of Colon Cancer.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
If this is the worst medical procedure you ever have, lucky you. Compared to most, it is very easy. There is always some discomfort, some indignitude, and often much worse.

Having had a triple bypass and Mitral Valve repair on Oct. 9 I have to second this statement. At this point there isn't a square inch of my body that hasn't been viewed by a variety of Nurses, techs, etc. so I've lost any shyness about how I look naked.

In addition the inflammation surrounding the heart after the surgery takes weeks to resolve and puts you into a symptom profile normally associated with Congestive Heart Failure. That alone makes a Colonoscopy a minor inconvenience in comparison.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
If this is the worst medical procedure you ever have, lucky you. Compared to most, it is very easy. There is always some discomfort, some indignitude, and often much worse.

Good summation. These teams (doc, nurse, anesthesiologist) see butt holes all day long five days per week. Some old guy’s butt from the sigforum is no big deal

The precedure is a minor inconvenience at worst but goes a long way towards saving lives by catching colon cancer early while its treatable. While the prep is uncomfortable and you lose a day getting the procedure completed the good far outweighs the bad by a million miles. Id get the colonoscopy over cologuard just for added peace of mind since cologuard, according to their advertisement, can give false positives.

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Originally posted by calugo:Id get the colonoscopy over cologuard just for added peace of mind since cologuard, according to their advertisement, can give false positives.

The worst case scenario in the event of a false positive is getting a colonoscopy. No different than what you were going to do in the first place.

As others have pointed out, family history is a factor. There are zero cases of colon cancer in my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or cousins. No cancers at all, for that matter. I'm good with poop in a box.

I experienced a false positive with cologuard. Had to get a colonoscopy -- new prep is no where near as bad as years ago.

Will not "waste time" with cologard in future I'm low risk.

I just turned 45 in July - no symptoms and no family history. Going in for a colonscopy a week from today. Not something I want to screw around with.

MDS

See if they will accept this. Coming from a guy who has had 5 colonoscopies I wish i would have tried this.

listen to this as you mull it over

Well it’s over. I had a few polyps but he said I shouldn’t worry, he’ll call with results next week.

Go ahead and do it. It’s not the kind of thing you want to do every week but you’ll get through it.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
Propofol/Diprivan is a good product.

Best nap I've had since I was 10. Doc said "Count backwards from one hundred." I got to "Wuh…"

Just finished mine a few hours ago.. Used a new product called Suprep it was great and easy. It was a 2 step one on night before and one on the day of. I had a small polyp and was happy to have it caught early.

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Originally posted by PD:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
If this is the worst medical procedure you ever have, lucky you. Compared to most, it is very easy. There is always some discomfort, some indignitude, and often much worse.

Good summation. These teams (doc, nurse, anesthesiologist) see butt holes all day long five days per week. Some old guy’s butt from the sigforum is no big deal

Or is a Cystoscopy to see what's going on inside the bladder, Guys.....as two young girls do the prep on "Mr. Johnson".

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Originally posted by Mr.9mm:

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Originally posted by arfmel:
Propofol/Diprivan is a good product.

Best nap I've had since I was 10. Doc said "Count backwards from one hundred." I got to "Wuh…"

My sister got Propofol for her colonoscopy (with an endoscopy at the same time) but I was give Versed. Mine was in the morning and I was out of it for most of the day. If you can get Propofol (otherwise known as Michael Jackson's "milk") take it.

The "prep" was nothing, all over the counter stuff. The most annoying thing about it was having to wake up extra early on the day of the procedure to down the rest of the laxative with Gatorade. Mine uncovered some very small "growths" which means a repeat in 3 years instead of five. There's nothing to it.

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
Guys.....as two young girls do the prep on "Mr. Johnson".

Haha... The female doc who did my vasectomy was not unattractive. I had to fight to keep from snickering when I suddenly heard Austin Powers' voice in my head.
( The Reference)

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Originally posted by MNSIG:

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Originally posted by calugo:Id get the colonoscopy over cologuard just for added peace of mind since cologuard, according to their advertisement, can give false positives.

The worst case scenario in the event of a false positive is getting a colonoscopy. No different than what you were going to do in the first place.

Except Cologuard is not free so now you have paid for two procedures instead of one not to mention the anxiety a false positive may cause.

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Originally posted by calugo:
anxiety a false positive may cause.

And a false positive isn't as bad, I think, as a false negative.

vthoky you don't mention how old you are and if your family has any history of colon cancer.

I have a very good friend who is head of internal medicine at Carillion Hospital in Roanoke. We used to race our Porsche's at VIR regularly. Between one of the sessions several years ago he got all of our group together after the days festivities and asked each of us if we've had our first colonoscopy yet. Myself and another guy had not, the rest had. He sat us down and explained the importance of getting the procedure. I was 55 at the time and agreed to do it. The prep was not as bad as people make it out to be and the drugs they give you during the procedure mean you don't remember anything or have any issues afterwards.

They did find some precancerous polyps and removed them and told me to come back in 10 years.
My GP has me take the Colongaurd stool sample every two years (in fact just did it last week).

Just do it!

I am not a doc but as I understand it , it takes about 10 years for a polyp to turn cancerous.

For my money , I want to be ahead of the darned thing BEFORE it turns to cancer. Unless someone tells me that Cologuard detects polyps ( and maybe it does ) and not simply cancer cells ...... I'll take the colonoscopy.

JMO...mike