• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    321·
    2 天前

    Everyone in the US should start getting colonoscopies at 45, the recommended age. Colon cancer is quite preventable if you catch it early, and insurance is legally required to cover preventative screenings after that age.

    If you have a family history of colon cancer in a first degree relative, talk to your doctor about getting screenings approved at an earlier age.

    Save your ass, save your life.

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
      61·
      16 小时前

      Everyone should get a colonoscopy whenever it’s offered adorably affordably. You’ll feel weightless after all the colon blow, you get a great nap out of the deal, and the epic farts after feel so amazingly satisfying. As an added minor bonus, it’s good preventative care.

      Edit: a word. Oopsie poopsie.

      • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 天前

        Everyone should get a colonoscopy whenever it’s offered adorably.

        “Can I pweeeeeeeeze put a finger in your butt?”

        /flutters eyelashes

        • fartographer@lemmy.world
          3·
          16 小时前

          “Affordability” has gotten so bad in the United States healthcare that autocorrect won’t even let us use it in the same sentence as any procedures!

          Some of my laughter from your comment is embarrassment, but it’s mostly because that’s a fucking hilarious thing to imagine the one proctologist I know saying that.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      10·
      1 天前

      I was paranoid once in my early twenties so I asked a doctor to check my bum for cancer (I didn’t know much about it at the time other than that it’s a thing that people do and apparently it’s nothing to be ashamed of, but I was also a bit of a hypochondriac).

      Well she probably thought I was too young for that and just being a weirdo, cause she made it HURT as badly as she could, and I’ve had a thing about avoiding doctors ever since.

      • shrugs@piefed.socialEnglish
        28·
        1 天前

        one more example of “useless tests are bad”. unfortunately there are no statistics for this kind of harm. see my other comment

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
          11·
          1 天前

          Or maybe, like, if you’re a doctor giving a rectal exam then maybe your patient shouldn’t walk away feeling as if he had just been anally raped. Even if you think he’s too young to request a screening…

          • Axolotl@feddit.it
            5·
            1 天前

            And of he’s too young to request a screening just say so and ask if they still want to do it…

    • cheesebob8@lemmy.zip
      61·
      1 天前

      Also important note that colon cancer has been increasing in people much younger than 45 as well. Get checked peeps.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    2 天前

    this is giving me flashbacks to the IV simulator in nursing school. I had already been a phlebotomist by that point so I was just like yeah this feels nothing like a real vein. Did help me learn the order of the steps though. Like practicing pushing the catheter down the length of the needle one handed and all. Then I went straight into psychiatry where basically no unit allows even a disconnected IV without a 1:1 and have put in like 5 IVs total in the entire time I’ve been employed as a nurse which is still well over half my attempts but still.

  • MrOtingocni@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 天前

    Every night, baby!

    I’m grinding so hard, I cleared the sigmoid with 3 fingers in 20 minutes and just one pain killer.