Thread: Get those med tests

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I'm on a two year cycle for the colonoscopy drill (my cruder aircrafter buddies refer to it as a "borescope" inspection).

The first one I had was close to forty years ago and was brutal. Extremely painful, but don't let me scare anybody off. Huge advances have been made, not only in that procedure but in just about everything else medical. For my more recent examinations I have been either heavily sedated or zonked out completely and they haven't been bad at all.

So do It!

I guess the worst part is having to drink some grim tasting stuff then dealing with the result of having done so.

And, yes, they have found some polyps, but dealing with them wasn't too tough either.

Thanks for bringing the subject up, Twitch.


Jim

I'm still kicking myself for "diagnosing" my own symptoms.
I had plenty of warning signs including very high blood pressure and all the risk factors.
Well, it caught up with me and thank God we had stellar medical coverage.

After many complications and almost 300K later, I came out of the hospital with a 5 way bypass job.
Dropping 50 lbs and still going is helping allot and is keeping my blood pressure under control.
Now I go to Cardiac rehab three times a week and jog on this belt sander they call a treadmill for almost an hour.

I came so close to "checking out".

It wasn't so bad being that sick and knowing that I was pretty much history as they wheeled me down to the operating room.....It was the look on the faces of my Wife and Kids at the end of the hall that really chilled me.

Ok, so if not for you......how bout the ones that love ya...????

Gawd!!!! I wish I had done something sooner....


DT