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Jul 06, 2020, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by DechanDawa
I will say this: my sister, a nurse, died of colon cancer, and she never had a colonoscopy. It is a crazy story. In her late 50's she had some bad signs...some rectal bleeding...but still refused to have a colonoscopy.
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Yes my grandmother had it and my mom used to tell us how horrible it was. Grandmom was about 400 lbs though and a long time diabetic. But no one in my immediate family has had it. Not parents, uncles, aunts... etc.
I am still pondering. Turns out the insurance has a little scam going on. If you get the fecal DNA test and it is positive (and there are false positives) you can have your follow up colonoscopy but insurance won't pay for it now because the blood test was the screening, not the colonoscopy. Still figuring out if there is anyway to pay for the blood test and do the colonoscopy if it comes back positive on the insurance.
I think I will focus on finding a good doctor who will do this right.
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I am under the impression that problems tend to occur more with older people than they do with younger folks.
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Yes my mom had problems over 65.
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But I've pretty-much decided not to do it again. I have to die of something. And I'm not a person who wants to live to be 80 or 90 years old to say nothing of 100! I'm already too old.
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Heck no dude, you have to live, who is going to respond to my posts?  There is also the virtual colonoscopy. It is just a ct.
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