IT WAS 5 YEARS AGO TODAY THAT LASERPAT DIED FROM COLON CANCER

[T.P.]

IT WAS SUNDAY MARCH 11TH 2012

It's my time of the year to say GIT-R-DONE,  It's COLONOSCOPY TIME !!!

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,85319.msg839019.html#msg839019

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,39437.msg371354.html#msg371354

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,52901.0.html

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,65477.0.html

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,76346.0.html

AND YOUR SAYING YOUR TO YOUNG TO GET COLON CANCER,  THINK AGAIN!! THIS JUST OUT!!

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/28/517563769/why-are-more-young-americans-getting-colon-cancer


Read the stories of those that GOT-R-DONE.  They are here today because they did.  T.P.

[Patrick]

It seems like more and more keeping getting some form of cancer.  Yep, get checked. If you don't feel right, find a doctor that has actually been to school and studied medicine.

[..]

 

[Valkorado]

I'm overdue for another, need to schedule.  For those who need more convincing, here ya go:

https://pages.unitedhealthcare-hmhb.com/page.aspx?qs=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

[RDAbull]

Wednesday morning the 22ed, 7:00 am, so looking forward to it.

[hubcapsc]

Wednesday morning the 22ed, 7:00 am, so looking forward to it.

Wake up and get it over with... after all that "preparation" and
no eating, I don't know how anyone could get one of these things
in the afternoon...

-Mike

[Crazyhorse]

Pat was top shelf.

[Wizzard]

Just got mine done

[scooperhsd]

Got mine last year, I'm good for 5-10 years.

Yes the prep is worse than actually having the procedure done. For better or worse - one plus on being a diabetic is that I got to be one of the early appointments (the prep /lack of eating can have some serious consequences on blood sugar levels). The flip side was that I was up until 0100 ish doing the prep the night before....

[Serk]

Five years 'till I'm in the age range where it's supposed to be done...

Not looking forward to it, but have every intention of having it done once I get there...

(Assuming I have insurance enough that I can afford to have it done at that point, but that's another issue...  )

[old2soon]

Serk-the prep is what's bad bout the whole procedure. Once you git that stuff down-DO NOT I mean DO NOT Stray too far from a toilet. And under NO circumstances wait to see if what yer feelin is the real deal-IT ARE!  While going thru the "cleansing" if you have more than one bathroom reserve one JUST for YOU!  Trust me on this!  Nudder thing-not meant to be fun nor is it!  RIDE SAFE..

[Serk]

Serk-the prep is what's bad bout the whole procedure. Once you git that stuff down-DO NOT I mean DO NOT Stray too far from a toilet. And under NO circumstances wait to see if what yer feelin is the real deal-IT ARE!  While going thru the "cleansing" if you have more than one bathroom reserve one JUST for YOU!  Trust me on this!  Nudder thing-not meant to be fun nor is it!  RIDE SAFE..

Yeah, I've also heard you might need to install a seatbelt on your toilet beforehand...

[RainMaker]

The process is nothing after you have emptied yourself.  They give you an amnesia pill and then you are in recovery, ready to find a double cheese Whataburger.

Pat said it best: " I strongy reccomend a colonoscopy if you are over 50. Todays polyps are tomorrows cancer. "

[f6john]

Had mine last fall. Had always been clear, but this time had 4 polyps removed. So much for being bullit proof. I am now treating my head for some pre cancerous spots and I go in for outpatient surgery on the 27'th for a bassal cell carsonoma spot on my back. Feel blessed with having a wife who pushes me when I'm stubborn.

[f6gal]

Thanks for the reminder T.P.

Here's an article written by Dave Barry about his colonoscopy experience: 

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis . Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America 's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose, watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous.. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this is, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' had to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling 'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Thanks for the reminder T.P.

Here's an article written by Dave Barry about his colonoscopy experience: 

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis . Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America 's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose, watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous.. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this is, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' had to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling 'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.

He has a way with words. 

[Hooter]

I'm dealing with skin cancer on my face right now. Too much sun when I was a    not much fun got mohs surgery coming up. Don't forget the sun screen and prevent this crap!

[Wizzard]

I'm dealing with skin cancer on my face right now. Too much sun when I was a    not much fun got mohs surgery coming up. Don't forget the sun screen and prevent this crap!

I been dealing with that for the last 10 years. I have had approx 8 spots removed. I have to have yearly skin exams. Despite the high cost of living , its still popular

[Patrick]

For folks that have not had a colonoscopy or a risk for colon cancer, there is a fairly new less invasive way to check this. Its called Colo-guard or something like that. There is apparently no prep and no trip to the OR.

[Daniel Meyer]

For folks that have not had a colonoscopy or a risk for colon cancer, there is a fairly new less invasive way to check this. Its called Colo-guard or something like that. There is apparently no prep and no trip to the OR.

No. No. And No.

Get the colonoscopy. Cologuard is to detect colon CANCER already established.

A colonoscopy can/will find pre-cancerous polyps and remove them, PREVENTING cancer, and establish your risk baseline for further screenings/preventative actions.

Colon/rectal cancer is the SECOND leading cause of cancer death in the US and is nearly 100% preventable!

According the the guy I paid to root around in my nether regions (I actually PAID for this?) 99% of colon cancer would be eliminated if folks would just get screened...if there's a history in you family...starting at 35, if not, start at 50.

[old2soon]

For folks that have not had a colonoscopy or a risk for colon cancer, there is a fairly new less invasive way to check this. Its called Colo-guard or something like that. There is apparently no prep and no trip to the OR.

              Daytime T V runs That ad CONSTANTLY!   The V A offers the same service. The V A is where I had the camera put you KNOW where!   And the ONLY thing I recollect of the procedure is after the Nurse told me the anesthesia was being introduced to count backwards from 10 I remember distinctly saying 6 and then waking up in recovery.   If you are of that age-there are NO/NONE/ZERO/NADA excuses-GIT ER DONE.    RIDE SAFE.

[Patrick]

For folks that have not had a colonoscopy or a risk for colon cancer, there is a fairly new less invasive way to check this. Its called Colo-guard or something like that. There is apparently no prep and no trip to the OR.

No. No. And No.

Get the colonoscopy. Cologuard is to detect colon CANCER already established.

A colonoscopy can/will find pre-cancerous polyps and remove them, PREVENTING cancer, and establish your risk baseline for further screenings/preventative actions.

Colon/rectal cancer is the SECOND leading cause of cancer death in the US and is nearly 100% preventable!

According the the guy I paid to root around in my nether regions (I actually PAID for this?) 99% of colon cancer would be eliminated if folks would just get screened...if there's a history in you family...starting at 35, if not, start at 50.

No, Hmmm, OK. Good point.
Saw the ad and thought I'd post the info.
I've had 3 , maybe 4, colonoscopies.  I don't see them as a problem, pretty simple and easy.  Some folks don't think the same. I doubt I'll ever go for another one though.
There can be problems with having them performed, though, I believe they do far more good than harm.

[G-Man]

Gitter Done!  Glad I got mine done.   

[solo1]

I've had a number of colonoscopies. I've also had a larger number of cystoscopies (no anesthetic).

The worst part of the colonoscopies is the preop. Not much worse than having the runs. The colonoscopy is nothing, what with the anesthetic.  I've had my share, all negative, and no need for another after 85 years of age.

A cystoscopy through the penis with no anesthetic is a different story, I've had roughly 20-35 of them as a followup for bladder cancer. I'm still not used to it.

So don't be a wimp about colonoscopy, it's eazy peezy. Getrdone!

[Hooter]

I had a cystoscopy a year ago...WOW!

[Patrick]

Cystoscopy. I guess I don't want one.

[RDAbull]

Got er done this week.  A couple of polyps zapped and nothing else of interest.
Yes it's not fun, but the what can happen if you don't do it is one hell of a lot worse.
"Come back and see me in 5 years"  OK, I'm already dreading it, but will return.
Go for it guys, living to ride is better than dying that way.