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Prostate Exam, I've been violated
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RetiredToker76
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Bitch all you want about a prostate exam but it saved my life at age 31. (Roughly 10 - 15 years before doctors recommend it)
I had a pain in my lower left gut that was so bad I couldn't get out of bed.
My GP sent me in for a CT scan. It came back inconclusive and she proscribed antibiotics, but suggested I get a colonoscopy just to be sure. Two weeks later I went in for the roto router exam. I was already feeling 110% better.
When I came to from being knocked out all I saw was a shoe horn on the wall. I looked at the hot nurse and said, "I'm sure I was tight but did you really need a shoe horn to get the camera in?"
Results:
Colonoscopy revealed nothing in the section of my colon where it hurt other than some redness, likely bacterial infection.
It also found a 'Serrated Adenoma Polyp' This polyp has a 2 - 5 year growth period before it can become cancerous. The likely hood of a serrated adenoma polyp going cancerous is 99%. Once it's gone cancerous it has a 97% mortality rate within 5 years. The window of successfully treating it before it's terminal is about 1 year after going cancerous.
If I'd stayed with the 'scheduled' exam at age 45 or 50 I would have died from cancer before I got to the scheduled exam. So at age 31 I had less than 10 years of life left and a bacterial infection elongeated my life considerably.
So make all the gay jokes you want. I'm going in for my second colonoscopy in about a month and am damned glad to be doing it. It saved my life once and I'll keep doing it the rest my life just to make sure that .005mm polyp doesn't come back.
-RT76
I had a pain in my lower left gut that was so bad I couldn't get out of bed.
My GP sent me in for a CT scan. It came back inconclusive and she proscribed antibiotics, but suggested I get a colonoscopy just to be sure. Two weeks later I went in for the roto router exam. I was already feeling 110% better.
When I came to from being knocked out all I saw was a shoe horn on the wall. I looked at the hot nurse and said, "I'm sure I was tight but did you really need a shoe horn to get the camera in?"
Results:
Colonoscopy revealed nothing in the section of my colon where it hurt other than some redness, likely bacterial infection.
It also found a 'Serrated Adenoma Polyp' This polyp has a 2 - 5 year growth period before it can become cancerous. The likely hood of a serrated adenoma polyp going cancerous is 99%. Once it's gone cancerous it has a 97% mortality rate within 5 years. The window of successfully treating it before it's terminal is about 1 year after going cancerous.
If I'd stayed with the 'scheduled' exam at age 45 or 50 I would have died from cancer before I got to the scheduled exam. So at age 31 I had less than 10 years of life left and a bacterial infection elongeated my life considerably.
So make all the gay jokes you want. I'm going in for my second colonoscopy in about a month and am damned glad to be doing it. It saved my life once and I'll keep doing it the rest my life just to make sure that .005mm polyp doesn't come back.
-RT76
