On my first day at the school of public health our Dean gave a speech and told us that the test they do where they simply test your poop is as reliable as a colonoscopy while being super cheap and non invasive.
Yep. Long story short about 10 years ago I found out my colonoscopies destroyed my health and I haven't had one since. There are stool tests I can do and there is a camera pill you can swallow to look for polyps. But overall I haven't needed either as an extreeme lifestyle change pretty much healed me.
You do need a colonoscopy to remove them, it's not exactly major surgery, they do it while they are in there with a blade on the scope. But most people who get them are never told by their doctor that the alternatiive to constant colonoscopies is to just figure out the root cause and be done with it. (no money in that for them)
I started getting colonoscopies when i was a kid and was told to go back year after year to check for any new ones "just to be safe". By my 30's my health had deteriorated so fast (physical and neruological issues) we really thought I was just slowly dying and no one could tell me why. That was when I decided to make the switch to natural medicine because it was clear the doctors and western medicine had no answers for me. I very quickly found out that the constant colonoscopies caused a severe case of disbiosis in me which took time for me to heal from, and I found the root cause of my polyps too. Haven't had a colonoscopy in 10 years now. Don't ever plan to have another one. The power of a full lifestyle change. Food is indeed either medicine or poison. Choose wisely.
Now I'm the one shouting from the rooftops to everyone else to NOT get a routine colonoscopy. Those things are way more dangerous than people realize because they aren't sanitary! There are better alternatives.
The stool test that you can mail in from home is notoriously unreliable with false positives. In the end (no pun intended) you'll have to have the procedure anyways, so maybe skip the cost and time wasted.
Of course....they could be lying about that, as well.
The colonoscopy is dangerous, they fail to inform people just how dangerous it is. It passes on disease from one patient to the other because it's impossible to completely steralize the equipment. The prep is very dangerous to your immune system, you don't want to be drinking that stuff. I've had several lifetimes worth of colonoscopies done, and have had to endure them with no meds. It was a massive pain in the ass (pun intended). I'll never have another one again now that I know what caused the polyps and fixed the issue. If for any reason those old symptoms return (which i highly doubt as i've corrected the root cause), I'll be swallowing the camera pill for verification before I have a colonoscopy. And I'll attempt to shrink them through natural medicine first.
It's more accurate than you think. The modern one can detect 92 percent of cancers and 40 percent of polyps. It is an excellent screening tool given that it's cheap, noninvasive, not harmful, no risks, no sedation. No reason not to do it first rather than having people get "routine" colonoscopies.
That's interesting. Everything I read about it (other than from the diagnostics company that makes it) is that it is highly irregular with results. The issue I had was that if you're positive you have to have a colonoscopy anyways and insurance companies consider that 2 diagnostics and pay for only one. My dr should have sent me directly for the scope since my sister had colon cancer. It came back positive for me, so I was scoped and they removed 19 polyps of all types, but not cancerous. It was fortunate that the mail in test was in December and the scope was in January, so it didn't count as 2 tests in one year, lol.
That's interesting also. My point was definitely not for your situation. I know several people who have no risk of colon cancer but still get Colonoscopies done just in case as routine because they've hit a certain age and it's what the doctor recommends. In that case it seems extremely unnecessary if they're not even having any symptoms.
The stool test is a scam by the insurance companies.
Normally a colonoscopy is considered a preventative procedure and fully covered under insurance.
However, if you do the stool test and it shows up positive (or false positive as is likely) then when you go to get the follow up colonoscopy the insurance companies consider it treatment and not preventative. So they don’t cover it the same way and you end up paying far more out of pocket.
On my first day at the school of public health our Dean gave a speech and told us that the test they do where they simply test your poop is as reliable as a colonoscopy while being super cheap and non invasive.
Yep. Long story short about 10 years ago I found out my colonoscopies destroyed my health and I haven't had one since. There are stool tests I can do and there is a camera pill you can swallow to look for polyps. But overall I haven't needed either as an extreeme lifestyle change pretty much healed me.
Glad to hear you're doing better!!
thanks!!
You do need a colonoscopy to remove them, it's not exactly major surgery, they do it while they are in there with a blade on the scope. But most people who get them are never told by their doctor that the alternatiive to constant colonoscopies is to just figure out the root cause and be done with it. (no money in that for them)
I started getting colonoscopies when i was a kid and was told to go back year after year to check for any new ones "just to be safe". By my 30's my health had deteriorated so fast (physical and neruological issues) we really thought I was just slowly dying and no one could tell me why. That was when I decided to make the switch to natural medicine because it was clear the doctors and western medicine had no answers for me. I very quickly found out that the constant colonoscopies caused a severe case of disbiosis in me which took time for me to heal from, and I found the root cause of my polyps too. Haven't had a colonoscopy in 10 years now. Don't ever plan to have another one. The power of a full lifestyle change. Food is indeed either medicine or poison. Choose wisely.
Now I'm the one shouting from the rooftops to everyone else to NOT get a routine colonoscopy. Those things are way more dangerous than people realize because they aren't sanitary! There are better alternatives.
The stool test that you can mail in from home is notoriously unreliable with false positives. In the end (no pun intended) you'll have to have the procedure anyways, so maybe skip the cost and time wasted.
Of course....they could be lying about that, as well.
The colonoscopy is dangerous, they fail to inform people just how dangerous it is. It passes on disease from one patient to the other because it's impossible to completely steralize the equipment. The prep is very dangerous to your immune system, you don't want to be drinking that stuff. I've had several lifetimes worth of colonoscopies done, and have had to endure them with no meds. It was a massive pain in the ass (pun intended). I'll never have another one again now that I know what caused the polyps and fixed the issue. If for any reason those old symptoms return (which i highly doubt as i've corrected the root cause), I'll be swallowing the camera pill for verification before I have a colonoscopy. And I'll attempt to shrink them through natural medicine first.
It's more accurate than you think. The modern one can detect 92 percent of cancers and 40 percent of polyps. It is an excellent screening tool given that it's cheap, noninvasive, not harmful, no risks, no sedation. No reason not to do it first rather than having people get "routine" colonoscopies.
That's interesting. Everything I read about it (other than from the diagnostics company that makes it) is that it is highly irregular with results. The issue I had was that if you're positive you have to have a colonoscopy anyways and insurance companies consider that 2 diagnostics and pay for only one. My dr should have sent me directly for the scope since my sister had colon cancer. It came back positive for me, so I was scoped and they removed 19 polyps of all types, but not cancerous. It was fortunate that the mail in test was in December and the scope was in January, so it didn't count as 2 tests in one year, lol.
That's interesting also. My point was definitely not for your situation. I know several people who have no risk of colon cancer but still get Colonoscopies done just in case as routine because they've hit a certain age and it's what the doctor recommends. In that case it seems extremely unnecessary if they're not even having any symptoms.
Also, you'd think it would be in insurance companies best interest to push the stool test first and then cover both if necessary.
The stool test is a scam by the insurance companies.
Normally a colonoscopy is considered a preventative procedure and fully covered under insurance.
However, if you do the stool test and it shows up positive (or false positive as is likely) then when you go to get the follow up colonoscopy the insurance companies consider it treatment and not preventative. So they don’t cover it the same way and you end up paying far more out of pocket.