So I had cancer ...

[alphaskunk65]

Congratulations with your good results and I wish you fast recovery.

In Belgium every +50 individual receives a sample tube automatically in his postbox for a preventive research of intestinal cancer. It is free of charge. I also have sent my sample and been contacted by a doctor after 2 weeks. There was some inflammation found and a colonoscopie was needed to search the reason behind it.

It is indeed an embarassing test by thoughts. But in practice you don't even feel it or know that it has happened under sedation. Finally they have found and removed a polyp. Further they have found a piece of bamboe stick stuck in my intestine wall which has caused the inflammation. Polyp was tested and no cancer risico found. Advice they gave was being more carefull at BBQ times🤣.

Luckily I had no issues. But even being contacted for a colonoscopie, going through it and waiting for the results is scary enough.

I wish the American health care system was this progressive. It's cheaper for them to pay for tests than surgeries . More people would be involved in their health care then.

 

[WLBLD]

Wow! You've been through a lot lately! So happy you are feeling better!!

Thank you for sharing to make others aware! Lucky your 1st test showed you needed the colonoscopy. I heard those aren't 100%. Sometimes it can give false positive or negatives as well.

Hope you continue to feel much better & heal quickly!!

 

[peppystrings80]

That is the main reason I want to talk about it. People just need to follow through with the tests even if the test is unpleasant. Men get those prostates checked. Women get the PAP smears and mammograms. Poop in the box. Don't die for nothing. And yes, buy that cheap insurance you can afford because its still better than no coverage at all when the shit hits the fan.

So glad to hear you are ok, your treatment went well, and was affordable. Thanks for sharing your story. I'm a breast cancer survivor. I had some symptoms, but ultimately it was routine screenings that caught it before it was really bad. I hope you stay in good health. Get those mams, ladies.

Here's my soapbox: some types of breast cancer cannot be seen on mammograms. If they send you an email or a letter about following up with an MRI, DO IT. Push them for it if you have to. It would have saved me from a bilateral mastectomy and probably radiation if I had done that 5 years earlier.

 

[HouseCat]

Thank you for sharing. I'm going to schedule a colonoscopy, prostate exam, and bloodwork now. Been putting it off.

Yes! I'm going to schedule some very long overdue routine checkups/tests as well. The last three years I've put off a LOT of medical/dental stuff and it came around to bite me in the ass (nothing serious, but two root canals later I am kicking myself.)

@MsGizmo I'm happy you're doing better and that your insurance pulled through. Thanks for this reminder / kick in the pants!

 

[MsGizmo]

So thankful to hear of successful procedures to remove cancer from you guys here. How does that factor in to using peptides now? I'm not sure of which ones promote growth of existing cancer or which ones have no effect at all. I have been wanting to ask about the possibility of finding something to help with my wife's nerve pain as a result of a tumor resection that was inside her spinal cord in her neck. There was a little bit of it left but radiation pretty much put a lid on it and it hasn't grown any since the surgery in 2016. Every time I start to research a peptide for nerve regeneration or nerve pain, I get a panic thinking about the residual tumor starting to grow again. Anyways, pardon the rambling. Glad you guys are cancer free and on the mend.

I am going to go on using peptides. I was taking semaglutide and KLOW for more than a year before they found the tumor and honestly some of the symptoms that I had been having were already becoming less of an issue when the results of the colonguard test came in. I am NOT going to even suggest that taking peptides was going to cure me or anything insane like that .. but I don't think they played any part in advancing the cancer either. If you ask me I think the single biggest risk factor for my kind of cancer is the pesticides they spray on our food crops. Glyphosate specifically. Can I prove it? Nope. Its just my opinion.

 

[Terminix8]

This is excellent news! It's always good to hear positive stories pertaining to cancer. Health insurance is such a hot topic in the US. It's why we have it though - to swoop in and save us from being financially ruined by the unexpected bigger blows, like your example.

Congratulations on your prognosis and I hope you have great celebrations with your family! 😊