Good for him!! I've skipped anesthesia for colonoscopies and mouth surgery. NOT fun doing a cololoscopy that way and I've done several because I have dangerous reactions to anesthesia.
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.
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.
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.
Good for him!! I've skipped anesthesia for colonoscopies and mouth surgery. NOT fun doing a cololoscopy that way and I've done several because I have dangerous reactions to anesthesia.
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!!
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.
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.