You should be doing these regularly starting at 45. I started after a good friend received stage 4 notification. He had never had one.
Get it done promptly. Watching him die of something preventable was very sad. It was also expensive. Fortunately for his widow, he had a gun and ammo hoarding problem. In the year or so it took to first find all the guns in the house and aircraft hangar, she amassed enough to pay all the bills.
I'm 71, and have never had one. However, I have a stool sample tested every year, and the docs say that's good enough. It's a new procedure, I think.
ReplyDeleteI had mine last Monday. Aside from the prep, which is rather less than delightful, pretty uneventful. With anesthesia (rather than sedation so I was awake before) I recall them injecting the propofol into my arm, then waking up twenty or thirty minutes later, all done. 1 polyp, an adenoma, but small and not threatening looking (to my GI doc and me), waiting on the lab report. So, good to go for at least the next five years, if not seven or ten. And at my age, I might miss that appointment.
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