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I think even the reduced age recommendation (45) is too high. Like maybe 35 even. And re-testing every 5 years? A lot can happen in half of a decade.
My insurance wouldn’t pay for my colonoscopy (colon cancer runs in the family) due to me being under 49. How the fuck am I supposed to mitigate it if I’m not allowed to fund it? Yall MFs know that I can’t pay you monthly premiums if you don’t keep me alive, right?
My insurance wouldn’t pay for my colonoscopy (colon cancer runs in the family) due to me being under 49.
How long ago did you ask? The old guidance was at 50 years old, but with the guidance changing to 45 years old insurance should cover it if you’re at least 45. I went through a similar you did under the old guidance. I can confirm that my insurance paid and I’m under 50. Note, the one you want is a “screening colonoscopy”. These are covered under the ACA, I believe. If it is a “diagnostic colonoscopy” those cost more money. Its the exact same procedure for both.
On my 45th, instead of a colonoscopy, my Dr. had me do the “Cologuard” stuff. Insurance covered that. I turn 46 this year.
If your doctor says you need one, insurance should be covering it.
Ha. Hahaha. Haha. That’s cute.
Hey just say you’ve had off and on rectal bleeding for a few months.
Low iron did it for me. Likely due to frequent double red blood cell donation (only as frequent as regulations allow). Scope went quick and easy and nothing concerning to note.
Dude I’m in the same boat. I just turned 40. I was having regular check-ins due to a run in with cancer (Testicular, Stage 1, caught it, beat it, done) and it just so happened that my check-ins were a few days after I would give blood. They straight up ordered me to stop giving blood for a while 🤣
Still wound up with a colonoscopy because they wanted to check me out to make sure (clean as a whistle, and I had an upper endoscopy in the same visit)
That sounds like that would justify medical necessity. I would ask your doctor how they can get it approved, or your hospital’s patient advocacy office.
Worst case, ask what happens if you want to do it with no insurance. Sometimes they can take the out-of-pocket cost way down.
Stage 3 colon cancer in my late 40s. Going through Chemo now. My oncologist thinks we can eradicate it so I’m hopeful. He also thinks it’s due to the increase of Microplastics.
If you are in your 40s, go get a colonoscopy. The prep sucks but it’s worth it.
Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
Because rates in absolute numbers have increased? Other cancers are more treatable?
Experts aren’t yet sure why colorectal cancer has risen in younger people, but Siegel said it’s an example of the “birth cohort effect”. That people born after the 1950s face heightened risk “tells us that there was some exposure, some risk factor that was introduced in the middle of the 20th century that’s increasing our risk of this disease”, Siegel said, “and it’s increasing the risk more and more with every subsequent generation.”
Here’s a link to the paper. It has this amazing sentence in the conclusion: “As these generations age, the CRC burden in these cohorts will continue to swell like a tsunami moving through time”.
All those protein bros need to eat more fiber (and regulate microplastics)
Had a friend die of colon cancer at age 41. She left behind three beautiful children and a loving husband. Absolute tragedy.
Get your preventative doctors appointments done, folks. The world isn’t ready to see you go to cancer so young <3
The problem (at least in America) is that insurance will outright refuse to pay for preventative treatment until you’re old enough. It doesn’t matter if your doctor thinks it is necessary. The insurance’s doctor (who is paid directly by the insurance company, who didn’t actually look at your medical history at all, and who may or may not even exist) says it isn’t necessary, so they’ll refuse to pay. And that means that lots of the most vulnerable populations are entirely priced out of preventative treatment until they’re already in their 50’s (when insurance will start paying for it).
You’re right but it’s also dependent on your doctor, your symptoms, and where you live. Please don’t discourage others from seeking out treatment for this because it might be difficult to get insurance to cover it.
Gee…
I “wonder” if diet & vaping-nicotene have “anything” to do with that??
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-second-brain-2
I read that when it 1st came out, long ago.
Nicotene & pure-glutamine both slaughter nervous-system-of-the-gut.
Vaping’s optimized for addiction: profit.
Apparently there are 2 different forms of nicotene, with 1 of them being “freebase” nicotene, which hits quicker, & there was someone, years ago, who discovered that cigarette-tobacco companies had been either breeding, or engineering, tobacco for higher freebase nicotene, so as to increase the addiction of it.
Which should change the category of their crime to drug-crime, shouldn’t it?
Anyways, the cause is the problem, the symptom is only the symptom.
Never ignore the cause, just because establishment wants you to, for their incumbent’s profits.
Diet & nicotene.
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Lol no just fucking no…way more people smoked back in the day. This has nothing to do with nicotine.
You know what changed? We’re way fatter and less active now.
40+% of the usa is obese… obesity increases chances for cancers. Most obese people are also less active.
