Notes on My Chemotherapy
Just taking the opportunity to chime in on this thread: Do not hesitate to press for a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy if you are worried about your colon health.
Something is going on now where demographically much younger patients are getting polyps and colon cancer: <a href="https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020/colorectal-cancer-rising-younger-adults" rel="nofollow">https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020...</a><p>Doctors are still mostly operating under the old wisdom that it is not a problem for those under 60 or so.<p>I had blood in my stool at 36, and after convincing my doctor that I wanted it checked even if it was 'probably a hemorrhoid', a sigmoidoscopy found 3 polyps.
I was lucky that the big one was right at the 'front door' so to speak, otherwise the sigmoidoscopy would have not been deep enough to find them, and I might not be writing this comment today.