National Colorectal Cancer Month

Hi guys, I was reminded that March is National Colorectal Cancer Month.  I was acutally diagnoised on 3.27.08 with it.  I was fortunate had surgery and had the tumor removed, and did my treatment with radiation and chemotherapy and today I am FREE. 

It is recommended you get your first colonscopy by the time you are 50, unless someone in your family had it, then it is recommended you get it at age 40.  In my case I was 49 and when I was diagnoised I was in stage 4.  With Colorectal Cancer there were 5 stages.  I do not know if this is true with all cancers. 

Some of the symptoms might be dark red blood in your stool, small pencil like stool or no stool at all I even had trouble passing gas.  So I knew something was up.  Now all these symptoms did not happen all at once, but at the time my health insurance from my employer had been cut off, so I did get diagnoised until 6 months after I noticed changes in my bowel movements.  So always look at your poop.  And really know what it looks like.  Also another characteristic is dark charry stool. 

So today I am great, in good health and I highly, highly recommend getting a colonscopy.  It is a simple cool procedure.  Your doctor will have you prep 3 or 4 days before.  And this is really needed so that when they go in they can see your intestinal walls and if there are any polyps and if so they can snip snip them away during the colonscopy. 

The other things is you wont feel a thing and even know they are doing it.  It is done through out patient.  You will need a driver.  They will give you some drugs that will have you out in seconds, and next thing you know you will be waking up in recovery.  I think the actual procedure took less than 30 minutes.  And when you come home you dont feel any pain.  So I hope that helps.  In the meantime

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