So you recommend a colonoscopy “every few years”?

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Virginia Ute

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Preventable conditions you hope you will never get? One that has a simple prevention technique...For me, it is obvious.

doctorcoug All-American

8/4/22 1:27pm

Colon Cancer.

BlueFamily

8/4/22 1:27pm

My sister in law got that in her 30s and just passed away last year after

crack

8/4/22 1:32pm

How is that preventable?

doctorcoug

8/4/22 1:38pm

By getting checked every few years

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 1:42pm

If you get checked and you have it, then it isn’t preventable.

Virginia Ute

8/4/22 1:46pm

I think he means remove his colon.

Baron

8/4/22 1:47pm

In the same way I can prevent skin cancer by getting a sketchy mole removed.

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 1:47pm

Actually it's exactly the same. Precancerous polyps are common.

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 1:49pm

So you recommend a colonoscopy “every few years”?

Virginia Ute

8/4/22 2:14pm

the heck are you on about? I'm saying it's mostly preventable.

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 2:30pm

Getting a colonoscopy “every few years” is not recommended for the vast majority of people and would do more harm than

Virginia Ute

8/4/22 2:45pm

Follow the progression of the thread. Unfortunately a couple "doctors" gave bad

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 3:12pm

Answer the question. You’re the one recommending colonoscopies every “few” years, not me.

Virginia Ute

8/4/22 4:11pm

Wrong.

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 4:20pm

RE: Wrong.

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 4:21pm

Actually it's the American Cancer society that recommends it every few years

EQD2

8/4/22 2:34pm

Is every 10 years the same as every “few years”? Lol no.

Virginia Ute

8/4/22 2:44pm

Yes. 10 is a few. So is 5, which is recommended for many people

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 3:13pm

And for some people annually or every 3 years

EQD2

8/4/22 4:10pm

You guys are great. Just admit you’re wrong.

Virginia Ute

8/4/22 4:11pm

For the record, here's your comment when you entered the thread:

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 4:18pm

I don't believe we are wrong. Colonoscopies every 3 years are indicated

EQD2

8/4/22 4:24pm

Gentlemen…gentlemen…you can’t semantics your way out of this one. Sorry.

Virginia Ute

8/4/22 4:39pm

OP's example of a "preventable condition" was shingles

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/4/22 5:11pm

Um, colonoscopy doesn't prevent cancer. The bowel prep and camera doesn't alter the genetics. An argument can be made

doctorcoug

8/5/22 12:13am

Please remind me to never use your services. Assuming you are an MD.

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/5/22 11:07am

not to mention, your question is "preventable conditions."

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/5/22 11:09am

You are totally missing my point. I'm sorry for being confusing

doctorcoug

8/5/22 11:26am

I'm not. You are simply wrong. Purely wrong.

SalmonOfCapistrano

8/5/22 11:27am

That article doesn't discuss primary vs secondary prevention. And, it is a marketing article. Finding a polyp is no

doctorcoug

8/5/22 12:13pm

Early detection is not prevention of cancer. It is prevention of death.

doctorcoug

8/5/22 12:08am

colonoscopies can catch it early.....

BYU4eVeR

8/4/22 2:07pm

But it isn't preventing the cancer, it is preventing the death. Big difference.

doctorcoug

8/5/22 12:08am

don't eat processed meat is a BIG first step.

runnincoug

8/4/22 2:36pm

Boardname does not check out

EQD2

8/4/22 2:42pm

Bring it on. Tell me how a colonoscopy prevents cancer.

doctorcoug

8/5/22 12:10am

A dysplastic polyp that is detected and removed by an endoscopic snare

EQD2

8/5/22 8:47am

Prove it. FIT in patients that are low risk is equal to colonoscopy, meaning polyps stay with the patient and they don't

doctorcoug

8/5/22 9:44am

Thanks for fighting the good fight while I was away. I think we’ve got a case where we have a couple of guys who lack

Virginia Ute

8/5/22 1:02pm

Some don't know what they don't know.

doctorcoug

8/5/22 7:31pm

Erectile dysfunction

WhirleyPop

8/4/22 1:29pm

So, get the shingles vaccine?

Tricky

8/4/22 1:30pm

As someone who got shingles in my 40s, I would say...

m0resn0w

8/4/22 1:35pm

In my 20s 🙋‍♂️ Also had chicken pox twice as a kid.

RootieBoy

8/4/22 1:41pm

Recently did. Posted here the vax hit me hard, but I'm apparently an outlier.

byujdmba

8/4/22 1:47pm

I need to go get it. Had it on my list.

Acorn

8/4/22 1:54pm

First dose wasn't bad for me. Second dose kicked my trash. Still better than

m0resn0w

8/4/22 1:59pm

Exact same for me. I never take off work, but had to the following afternoon.

byujdmba

8/4/22 2:00pm

So get it on a Friday? I know some people that still got Shingles after the

Acorn

8/4/22 2:13pm

If you want to blow your weekend. 🙂

byujdmba

8/4/22 2:15pm

True. I should just "work" from home like the rest of the world and get the

Acorn

8/4/22 2:18pm

Ha. I actually did get it on a Friday and tried to ride the Alpine Loop the next

m0resn0w

8/4/22 3:23pm

I got shingles when I was a senior in High School

whoneedscorners?

8/4/22 1:32pm

Type 2 diabetes. Everything about that looks awful.

crack

8/4/22 1:33pm

Nope...shingles is worse.

doctorcoug

8/4/22 1:38pm

Worse than amputating your feet? I didn't realize shingles was that bad.

crack

8/4/22 1:48pm

Trust me, post herpetic neuralgia is way worse

doctorcoug

8/5/22 12:07am

with Diabetes you get pain

BYU4eVeR

8/4/22 2:06pm

Don't you recover from shingles? Diabetes is for life, that's way worse.

jrob30

8/4/22 5:45pm

I don’t know if it’s preventable but testicular tortion sounds worse than death

D.T. Survivor

8/4/22 1:39pm

testicular torsion...

m0resn0w

8/4/22 1:44pm

Like a dude saying that about pregnancy...

byujdmba

8/4/22 1:50pm

When a guy in our ward got twisted testicles, this really funny woman friend

Acorn

8/4/22 1:54pm

RE: When a guy in our ward got twisted testicles, this really funny woman friend

byujdmba

8/4/22 2:00pm

Kidney Stones. I drink lots of water every day hoping to avoid them.

chrisrenrut

8/4/22 1:41pm

I only had one ever. Now I drink more soda than ever. It's been 7 years so I'm

WDaddy

8/4/22 1:45pm

My wife is such a freak when it comes to pain. She gets kidney stones pretty

crack

8/4/22 1:48pm

Impressive. The pain of KS vs the pain of a herniated disc. Too close to call.

OmahaOmaha

8/4/22 3:20pm

I've had them twice. Limit my diet soda intake, upped water intake. We'll see

paulb

8/4/22 2:00pm

RE: Kidney Stones. I drink lots of water every day hoping to avoid them.

Meny Olens

8/15/22 10:53am

Diphtheria

macdizzle

8/4/22 1:45pm

I thought you were going to say Monkey Pox

byujdmba

8/4/22 1:46pm

Crohn's disease

SJS

8/4/22 1:50pm

Is that avoidable?

byujdmba

8/4/22 1:52pm

You just don’t eat and die before you get it.

D.T. Survivor

8/4/22 2:31pm

I'm starting to be convinced no one gets out of here alive.

byujdmba

8/4/22 2:44pm

Wife has it. Definitely not preventable.

whoneedscorners?

8/4/22 3:03pm

This book is pretty interesting with a provocative title: How not to die

runnincoug

8/4/22 2:37pm

Weird but I got shingles recently, took a pill, got better, no biggie. I think

Don Carlton

8/4/22 4:11pm

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