Due to family history, I started getting checked early. But I woke up in the middle of my last one.
The IV needle must have slipped out of me, mid-procedure. I remember dreaming that I was running away from something that was grabbing at my legs, and then becoming aware that I was on the table, and sort of thrashing against the anal probe, like you do.
At that point, the anesthetist also woke up and must have realized what was happening. He stuck the needle back in-- I went to say in the back of my hand. I remember a brief moment of exquisite pain, but then the next thing I knew, I’m waking up in the recovery room.
No polyps then, but I’m due for another probing, and I’m feeling hesitant.
The secret to the prep liquid, at least back then, is to hold your nose when you drink it, ice cold, and then suck a lemon wedge right afterwards. But do it over the sink, just in case.
i’m late to this thought, but i also wonder how much is simply an increased in detection. colorectal cancer is ( apparently ) the third most common kind of cancer worldwide.
with us healthcare being so backward, it wouldn’t surprise me if this has frequently has gone undiagnosed and undetected… and now with more people being getting health insurance, we understand why people are dying.
I went and they said 5 years for my next one. My wife has colon cancer in her family, it did her mom in on Mother’s Day no less.
She goes once a year, so far so good.
A few years ago I ended up with C Dif because of antibiotics. My doctor dragged his feet getting me to a specialist.
They took me right in and sent that camera right in or up, not as far as a colonoscopy but no anesthetic.
I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, well maybe one guy.
Quite a few years ago a specialist needed to have a look see inside my bladder. Guess where the camera goes for that one.
For some bizarre reason they gave me a local so I was awake. At some point during the procedure I became paralyzed from the neck down. Don’t panic they said, we just went too high with the whatever we did to you.
I get a flex sig every 6 months (sounds maybe like what you had?) without anesthesia or anything. It’s no biggie. I wouldn’t say “enjoyable,” but not painful or anything.
It sounds to me like colon screening as covered by the ACÁ means the US probably has high rates of screening. Due to health insurance weirdness the US does have very high rates of some things like CT scans and oxy prescriptions.
my thought was: there’s been big jumps in enrollment since covid because the biden administration increased the subsidies, so many more people would be getting screened now.
but actually, reading the study’s introduction … it’s at least partially down to covid itself, and the fact that people during covid had a harder time getting care
[W]e provide the estimated numbers … based on up-to-date population-based data for cancer incidence and mortality through 2020 and 2021, respectively. This includes coverage of incidence rates during the first year of the pandemic, when healthcare disruptions were at their peak.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused delays in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in 2020 because of health care setting closures, disruptions in employment and health insurance, and fear of COVID-19 exposure. The question of whether these delays lead to increased diagnosis of advanced-stage disease and, ultimately, higher cancer mortality at the population level will be answered gradually over many years. What is already well-established is the disproportionate direct and indirect impact of the pandemic on communities of color, which may ultimately exacerbate cancer disparities.
