It somehow seems appropriate for March to be dedicated to having one’s back door checked for polyps. If your over 50 and haven’t been checked, well its time.
The good news is that you don’t necessarily have to get scoped.
There’s the fecal immunochemical test (FIT) and you can have you’re stool DNA tested.
American Cancer Society on Testing Options
We put a man on the moon, why can’t we solve this without involving Uranus?
I had to give a stool sample to the VA. After all the shit we are forced to take from the government, it was nice to turn the tables.
It ain’t the procedure, it’s the preparation.
I’d suggest you not wait till you are 50. I had a colon polyp removed at 28 after a retinue colonoscopy There were no symptoms what so ever.
My apostrophe exam was excellent….”’
Lung cancer isn’t the only Big C that you get from smoking.
This one is humiliating as well as debilitating.
Make sure you get a doctor with hands smaller than Donald Trumps.
GoPro working on a device, has windhield wiper
@mo – Whut do they call it.. the Michelle Signature Model?
They told me they needed a stool sample. Not only did I have difficulty deciding which leg to saw a piece off of, but now when I sit on it, it wobbles.
After putting it off for a few years, I finally went through the process a couple of weeks ago. The preparation involved a day of eating lightly to then clear broth.
TMI Spoiler Alert:
The day before, as instructed, I first ate some laxative pills. A few hours later around 6pm, I took a powdered laxative and mixed it with two 32 oz. Gatorade into a pitcher. I drank an 8 oz. glass every 15 minutes.
Projectile diarreah ensued and it wasn’t a done deal then either. Drinking all that Gatorade caused a lot of puking too. Luckily I had some dog poop bags open and ready to go. Good thing I had ’em ready, I filled about 3 or 4 of them.
On the day of the the actual colonoscopy, all I did was show up, got up on a gurney in a fetal pose and after some anesthesia. I opened my eyes, looked around and it was over.
Irony Curtain said it with 100% accuracy. The prep is the worst part. TGIOver, for now. I even got pictures.
I did one last week, the Dr. was a female. I had no problems and the procedure was easy.
I’m married so I’m use to having a woman up my ass all the time.
Tracy, um…thanks?
BTW, you couldn’t pay me enough to be a doctor!
Stool sample?
Will any democrat do?
What? No lapel ribbon or wrist band? I don’t think the color brown is taken yet.
Loco, yer killin’ me!
All you need to know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1enmyAmpik
Does anyone actually go to med school with the intent of being an ass doctor? Or is it simply that the guy who probes your backside managed to work his way down the career ladder?
San Francisco and New York are teeming with amateur proctologists. Stands to reason that the ones that can afford med school take it on as a career.
What’s a perforated colon or a scope-carried infection matter?
Go get tested. Go ahead. 🙁
Quick question…
What’s it mean when you get a prostate exam and the doctor has BOTH hands on your shoulders?
😯
It means you may have an enraged prostate instead of an enlarged one…
I’ve had it done 3 times now. They keep finding polyps each time but thankfully none have ever been cancerous. I pull the same lame joke on the female doctor each time. I say “I promise to behave, Lord knows you deal with enough assholes”
It’s not all fun and games:
About 1 in every 350 colonoscopies do serious harm. The death rate is about 1 for every 1,000 procedures
About 80 percent of endoscopes are cleaned using Cidex (glutaraldehyde), which does NOT properly sterilize these tools, potentially allowing for the transfer of material that could easily infect you
Asking what solution is used to clean the scope is a key question that could save your life. Make sure it’s been sterilized with peracetic acid, to avoid potential transfer of infectious material from previous patients
EXACTLY!