I’m in my mid 40s and have some other pain in my pelvis (unrelated), when I saw a GI doctor about it he said I should get a colonoscopy because of both my age and to look for anything that might cause pain.
He didn’t find the cause of my pain but did find the polyp and sent it to the lab. Premalignant. The doc says it would have been cancer within a year or two.
Just to reiterate - polyps don’t hurt. It was just found during the course of a different investigation but I was supposed to get a colonoscopy anyway. I was putting it off because I didn’t like the idea of getting one. Please follow your doctor’s advice on this. Don’t wait, it’s not that bad.
I’m in my mid 40s and have some other pain in my pelvis (unrelated), when I saw a GI doctor about it he said I should get a colonoscopy because of both my age and to look for anything that might cause pain.
He didn’t find the cause of my pain but did find the polyp and sent it to the lab. Premalignant. The doc says it would have been cancer within a year or two.
Just to reiterate - polyps don’t hurt. It was just found during the course of a different investigation but I was supposed to get a colonoscopy anyway. I was putting it off because I didn’t like the idea of getting one. Please follow your doctor’s advice on this. Don’t wait, it’s not that bad.
I see. Hopefully you’re going to be doing yearly colonoscopies then.
That is what the doc recommends and I am pretty keen to follow that advice.