O.K., drop your damn drawers!

Oldan Grumpi · #1 10-19-2019, 12:57 AM

No kidding. Went to my GP for a minor problem, and he ordered a FIT test; the notorious ‘poop stick’. “Might as well”, he said. “They’re cheap.”

I scoffed and sneered, but figured ‘What the hell, if it keeps him happy, I suppose I can play in my poop’. Came back positive.

He ordered a colonoscopy. Eleven polyps were removed (haven’t heard the biopsies yet) and one obviously cancerous one was left in there. I’ve already been told that about a foot of my gut has to come out at the very least, and maybe more. Zero to cancer in ten days flat, and I’ve had absolutely no symptoms. Could be worse, I might have not done the ‘poop stick’ and let it get much, much worse. As it is, I think I have a pretty good chance unless those first eleven polyps come back hot. Then things might get a bit sticky, no pun intended.

Go to your MD and tell him you really, really want to dig around in your poop with a little plastic stick. And for crying out loud I don’t need, don’t want any bodies best wishes, or thoughts and prayers - I’ve got all that stuff handled. Just go to your GP and crap on a cardboard to get a little sample. It might make all the difference.

mmhmmmm · #2 10-19-2019, 02:05 AM

Really good advice! Thanks for making everybody think more about this, I am a young guy and have been sitting on a lab requisition for months.... gotta take that advice and keep the doc happy!!

Glad you caught it early! Couple close friends have been in similar circumstances and are coming out the other side in good shape.

All the best.

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KegRiver · #3 10-19-2019, 02:49 AM

Egads Batman! That's scary!

KegRiver · #4 10-19-2019, 02:56 AM

At the roll over the other day there were a couple of young men that stopped to help. They were from High Level, in their early twenties.

The one was driving his young friend to Edmonton for cancer treatments.

When they told me that I couldn't help thinking it seemed so unfair. There I was, 65 years old, past my prime and I had clearly just been spared from something major, and here was this young man with his whole life ahead of him and he was in a fight for his life. By the look of him it wasn't going so well.

Why me? At best I have no more then twenty years left in me, and I have experienced all that I hoped to. All I'm doing now is taking up space some young folks could use. Like that young man.

I wish I could sign over my remaining years so that he could have a long and happy life.

curtz · #5 10-19-2019, 07:27 AM

Good that you caught it early, good luck to you. To everyone don't forget to get your prostate checked also. Get your psa blood test, I got prostate cancer when I was 43. Sucks getting older.

35 whelen · #6 10-19-2019, 07:31 AM

Did mine 10 years ago diagnose prostate cancer caught it early so far so good ,get checked it's no big deal

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Bigwoodsman · #7 10-19-2019, 07:41 AM

I was in on Thursday for mine 3 polyps removed. One large one waiting for the results.
Get checked guys! Your life is depending on it.

BW

tullfan · #8 10-19-2019, 09:02 AM

I started getting tested at 45. I’ll turn 48 in March and get another test. No issues but looking to be proactive. No history in my family, but with my luck.
Anyway, better safe than sorry.
Tullfan

Zip · #9 10-19-2019, 09:10 AM

Zero to 10 days...that damn cancer is a tough one for sure...and yes Thanks for the message that everyone should get checked, that's important for sure..I got checked and they pulled out several polyps and all was good...now the top end on me was where they should have been looking...that's where I got mine..Throat Cancer..let me tell ya that's no fun, at all!
Glad ur outlook is good, an once again thanks for the clear message to get others into the doctor...you may have saved a few lives this morning and won't even know it..good on you!
Zip

Pixel Shooter · #10 10-19-2019, 09:15 AM

Great advice. Got my first tattoo done down there. Only my proctologist has the pleasure to view. Early detection is key.

Burrowing Owl · #11 10-19-2019, 09:05 PM

Oct 31, 2011 I was at a gun show, didn't feel very good, but hey, it was a GUN show. About an hour in, I suddenly felt like a bomb went off in my gut, and passed out. Came vaguely too with a doctor standing over me saying "when you wake up you'll have a bag for the rest of your life, ok?" We had a few choice words, but he won.

I had NO symptoms, NO warning, NO history, NO familial history, I just drew the unlucky card. Afterwards I found out I was old enough that I should have had at least 4 colonoscopies by then. No doctor had even mentioned them. I have had one every two years since, happily. Quite a few more bits removed.

BE PROACTIVE... DEMAND A COLONOSCOPY BY AGE 55. THE LIFE YOU MAY SAVE IS YOUR OWN !!! Don't be like me and ruin a good gun show 😉

jungleboy · #12 10-19-2019, 09:54 PM

Feb 2018 went in for colonoscopy after putting it off for a year . Cancer in my colon and had spread to my liver. Surgery April 2108 ,they are sure they got it all but had chemo for six months. Now sitting with 4 hernias a (direct result of my cancer surgery),waiting for surgery ,they said several months for that to take place and they will open me up from top to bottom again so recovery will be drawn out. I haven't worked since April 2018 (was self employed so no benefits ) I'm a kept man now .

Ya ,don't put it off, get checked regular.

brslk · #13 10-19-2019, 10:47 PM

Ok, I've had the little kit the lab sent home with me for a couple of weeks waiting for "the right time" to use it. I'll do it tomorrow and take the poop in to the lab on Monday.

mooseknuckle · #14 10-19-2019, 10:55 PM

Figured may as well throw this in.... check your nutts boys. Dec 25, 2018 they took one of mine, stage 2B. Very fortunate to catch it early.

Halfton · #15 10-19-2019, 11:08 PM

Had the same thing happen with me in 2015....new Dr. ordered a bunch of tests. Colon came back positive, confirmed by the infamous scope. Removed a bunch of polyps but the surgeon told me right there I was going under the knife. Turned out to be stage one so I was lucky....only cost me a couple of feet of intestine. Test result to under the knife in less then a month. Sadly the wife is going thru it now too.....her test came back as positive but she is still waiting on the scope....which is taking much longer then it did me.
Get checked.....cost you nothing and may well save you and those who care for you a lot of grief and anguish.

Jim

omega50 · #16 10-20-2019, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by mooseknuckle

Figured may as well throw this in.... check your nutts boys. Dec 25, 2018 they took one of mine, stage 2B. Very fortunate to catch it early.

Not to make light of this, but after a botched vasectomy I had a large swelling named Sparky that was like a third ball but bigger.

Took over a year to resolve.

So I often ask my wife-Does this feel right to you

She is beginning to catch on.

Sooner · #17 10-20-2019, 10:02 AM

My dad was 75 ish when he had some blood in his stool. He had a colonoscopy, took out 9 or 10 polyps. Non cancer thankfully. That finding had me lined up next at 47 ish for one. If your dads has them, you get checked. I had 4 tiny ones, non cancerous. I believe my next one look see is coming up next year. Every 5 I believe. Knock me out and send the camera up if it keeps a track record of what it happening where the sun don't shine.

thumper · #18 10-20-2019, 10:14 AM

My old Doctor used to call a colonoscopy a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", after the old TV show. He claimed he had dyslexia and meant 'Voyage to see what's up the bottom'

I take that voyage every 2 years.

Bigwoodsman · #19 10-20-2019, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Sooner

My dad was 75 ish when he had some blood in his stool. He had a colonoscopy, took out 9 or 10 polyps. Non cancer thankfully. That finding had me lined up next at 47 ish for one. If your dads has them, you get checked. I had 4 tiny ones, non cancerous. I believe my next one look see is coming up next year. Every 5 I believe. Knock me out and send the camera up if it keeps a track record of what it happening where the sun don't shine.

At age 67 my dad had one the size of a soft ball it was so large it collapsed his colon. He had surgery and they removed 22 inches of colon. 2 years later liver cancer. They used a laser to burn the cancer off of his liver 4 years later a spot on his lung at age 75 he passed away.

I got my first one at 32 for other reasons. Again at 50 because of dad and then again this week. My dads younger brother passed away age 70 colon cancer. My moms oldest brother age 76 colon cancer my mom age 73 colon cancer. Another of her brothers age 75 colon cancer.

I’m scheduled for another one in a year. Buggers up one day of your year but well worth it. This time around the colyte wasn’t so bad the worst was the IV needle going in.

BW

Sooner · #20 10-20-2019, 12:18 PM

[QUOTE=Bigwoodsman;4042727]At age 67 my dad had one the size of a soft ball it was so large it collapsed his colon. He had surgery and they removed 22 inches of colon. 2 years later liver cancer. They used a laser to burn the cancer off of his liver 4 years later a spot on his lung at age 75 he passed away.

I got my first one at 32 for other reasons. Again at 50 because of dad and then again this week. My dads younger brother passed away age 70 colon cancer. My moms oldest brother age 76 colon cancer my mom age 73 colon cancer. Another of her brothers age 75 colon cancer.

I’m scheduled for another one in a year. Buggers up one day of your year but well worth it. This time around the colyte wasn’t so bad the worst was the IV needle going in. [Quote]

The worst for me was drinking that syrup. Yucky nasty stuff. Don't look forward to drinking it next time.

coyoteman · #21 10-20-2019, 02:32 PM

Haveing for many years,forced to, use high percentage Deet--It caught up.My russian skin specialist--cut--froze--many spots from my face--Then burnt one bad boy.Early detection,for better survival rate.Yes it do take some motivation--Best go, its over before you know it.

mooseknuckle · #22 10-20-2019, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by omega50

Not to make light of this, but after a botched vasectomy I had a large swelling named Sparky that was like a third ball but bigger.

Took over a year to resolve.

So I often ask my wife-Does this feel right to you

She is beginning to catch on.

Lol, wife calls me "half sack"

Oldan Grumpi · #23 10-20-2019, 04:45 PM

Someone PM'd a question, and for some reason I don't seem able to PM back so I'll respond in the clear.

You asked my age - I'm 71.

Several years ago my GP did a sigmoidoscopy (on the bottom end, up to the 'first bend in the creek'. Said he found a polyp, and referred me to a guy at the Royal Alex in Edmonton for a proper colonoscopy.

That guy said there was nothing there. About 5 years later my GOP sent me back again - still nothing there, and that time he kind of griped me out for 'wasting his time'. I later heard that the Edmonton guy was an old drunk who couldn't find a polyp unless it was in the bottom of a whiskey glass.

I'm glad that my GP insisted on the FIT - the guy who came to our local hospital sure had no problem finding and removing 11 of the little buggers in the span of 90 minutes. I was watching on his monitor; I had no idea the insides of my guts were so rumply! He injects some kind of blue die and then snares them with a wire loop. They kind of looked like wrinkly peas, and I heard him describing sizes and distances - they were up to about 15 mm. (Too much information? *L* I thought it was kind of interesting.) It felt like he was trying for my tonsils, but from the wrong end.

The update is I'm off for a CT scan this coming week, and a pre-op meeting with a surgeon. I expect I'll be de-gutted sometime in the near future. I'm really not especially worried, unless those first 11 polyps come back hot and I run out of gut to remove.

If you didn't think getting old was the sh!ts, just wait until you start into your second litre of that 'B-Peglyte' stuff. You could screw a choke into your butt and make an 870 Remington look shabby.

teledogs · #24 11-02-2019, 09:43 AM

I agree so much, but get EVERYTHING checked!!! Be persistent!

I did pass my FIT test but my EKG not so good. I have complained of chest pains for years and was always told it was strained muscles or pulls. I am 51, fit, not overweight, blood pressure normal and my blood work is pristine. I climb, hike, bike and walk a lot yet my diagnosis not so good. I will be having open heart surgery before Christmas and this years hunting season is out the door but they said it can be fixed. I liked hearing that but it is something to digest. I found out a few days ago. Starting to accept it and getting more positive.

Be your own advocate, keep healthy and best wishes to all.