Walking on the blue moon
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I went for one recently and they found a very large polyp, 60 cm's in dia. It was a messy thing to have cut out and I had a lot of bleeding afterwards.
This thing was pre-cancerous thank god but couldve changed anytime.
I had no symptoms just a routine colonoscopy, can I urge anyone on here over 50 to go for regular colonoscopies, and get any polyps removed, bowel cancer is a major killer here in Oz, in fact with all the processed foods the western diet consists off, its becoming a bit of an epidemic.
I'll be having another one in 2 years.
Glad that it has been removed. And indeed regular colonoscopies, particularly for those over 50, should be promoted more, especially with the low fibre, high fat diet nowadays. Ppl with family history of colon cancer (e.g HNPCC, FAP) should be even more aware of this.
Great thread.