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.
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.