If you have a proactive doctor, they can find enough justification to get you one. But you have to advocate for yourself. My doctor doesn't mess around, and generally believes that NA is way behind in terms of preventative medicine and early detection.
I had mine done a couple years before turning 50. As Cali said, the prep for it is a bit of a wild ride, but well worth getting it done.
Yep, my Dr said I qualify now that I'm 45 (cringe) and that being gay didn't hurt so I got mine recently. They found one pre-cancerous polyp so I get my next one in 7 years.
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Well...this thread has certainly taken an unexpected shift in tone...
Maybe y'all should tell your physicians you like butt stuff and they'll get you snaked out sooner rather than later. I'm now really grateful I didn't wait till 50 to poo on popsicle stick instead.
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Well...this thread has certainly taken an unexpected shift in tone...
Men still don't talk about this stuff openly any where near enough, and thus don't push eachother to see doctors. So the one silver lining in a young celebrity passing away is it always sparks a wave of men taking the steps to save their own lives.
It's not much of a consolation for the family, I am sure, but as a society it's immensely helpful.
Men still don't talk about this stuff openly any where near enough, and thus don't push eachother to see doctors. So the one silver lining in a young celebrity passing away is it always sparks a wave of men taking the steps to save their own lives.
It's not much of a consolation for the family, I am sure, but as a society it's immensely helpful.
A side benefit of medical anxiety is that you are more proactive with this stuff. I suffer from a lot of medical anxiety. It can spike unexpectedly. And then I feel guilty about it because there are people that have legitimate serious health concerns, and I'm just worried about the possibility of them.
For me it started when I had my daughter. I didn't realize that having this other life that depends on you, would cause you to worry about your own mortality in a deeper way. At least for me it did.
I've even debated at times spending money on full body screening, like offered by companies like this, just to give myself some peace of mind. But it feels like I'm just allowing my anxiety to control me.
I'm also capable of manufacturing symptons. My doctor recently asked me if I had any tingling in my feet or hands. I didn't until then but i sure did after!
I've recently come through a big spike in these anxieties that was impacting my sleep, ability to focus, and general mood.
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A side benefit of medical anxiety is that you are more proactive with this stuff. I suffer from a lot of medical anxiety. It can spike unexpectedly. And then I feel guilty about it because there are people that have legitimate serious health concerns, and I'm just worried about the possibility of them.
For me it started when I had my daughter. I didn't realize that having this other life that depends on you, would cause you to worry about your own mortality in a deeper way. At least for me it did.
I've even debated at times spending money on full body screening, like offered by companies like this, just to give myself some peace of mind. But it feels like I'm just allowing my anxiety to control me.
I'm also capable of manufacturing symptons. My doctor recently asked me if I had any tingling in my feet or hands. I didn't until then but i sure did after!
I've recently come through a big spike in these anxieties that was impacting my sleep, ability to focus, and general mood.
I had to go on anti-anxiety meds for my medical anxiety in 2018. I had always dealt with it, but when my dad got sick it was starting to control my life so I understand how a loved one can really cause it to ramp up and I realized that I needed some help getting it in line.
I had the same issue, where every small thing was for sure imminent death for me, I'd have one symptom, get asked if I had another symptom and ten minutes later I had that symptom too. Now, I try and listen to my body, the meds make it very easy to block out some of the stuff that is just my anxiety and I've had a much healthier relationship with using the internet to self diagnose... in that I've mostly stopped.
Oddly, this has never applied to sports / physical injuries and has always just been about illness. Just found out I've been playing on a sports hernia for about a year because I mostly just... ignored it. Smort.
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We’re now starting to see more and more people in the 20-, 30- and 40-year-old range developing colon cancer. At the beginning of my career, nobody that age had colorectal cancer,” said Dr. John Marshall of Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, who has been a cancer doctor for more than three decades
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A side benefit of medical anxiety is that you are more proactive with this stuff. I suffer from a lot of medical anxiety. It can spike unexpectedly. And then I feel guilty about it because there are people that have legitimate serious health concerns, and I'm just worried about the possibility of them.
For me it started when I had my daughter. I didn't realize that having this other life that depends on you, would cause you to worry about your own mortality in a deeper way. At least for me it did.
I've even debated at times spending money on full body screening, like offered by companies like this, just to give myself some peace of mind. But it feels like I'm just allowing my anxiety to control me.
I'm also capable of manufacturing symptons. My doctor recently asked me if I had any tingling in my feet or hands. I didn't until then but i sure did after!
I've recently come through a big spike in these anxieties that was impacting my sleep, ability to focus, and general mood.
Oh man...I feel this so hard.
The problem is, I have the education to self-diagnose. The problem is also that I see patterns in my health quickly, and because I can self-diagnose, I get freaked out knowing what is likely going on with my health.
I currently have peptic ulcers and a Barrett's esophagus. I called it a year ago, but I was too afraid to get it confirmed.
Stupid, really. I could have been treating it and healing this whole time. Stupid male ego to admit that I might need help.
But yeah, I'm scared ####less all the time that one scan or blood test is going to reveal something horrible, and then I leave my family in the lurch.
This all stems from watching one of my wife's cousins get diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at around age 39. He made it past 5 years, which is a minor miracle, but he passed all the same, leaving behind a wife and two young daughters. Watching the end game of his illness was nearly unbearable. That scared the #### out of me and I haven't been the same since.
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For those of you who suffer from medical anxiety, you should see if you can get yourself into one of the family medicine teaching clinics. You often start your appt with a resident who listens to all your concerns and then discusses them with your GP. Most of the time, they'll both come back and discuss the issue(s) and follow up, if necessary.
They're not easy clinics to get into, as spots don't seem to open up frequently.
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For those of you who suffer from medical anxiety, you should see if you can get yourself into one of the family medicine teaching clinics. You often start your appt with a resident who listens to all your concerns and then discusses them with your GP. Most of the time, they'll both come back and discuss the issue(s) and follow up, if necessary.
They're not easy clinics to get into, as spots don't seem to open up frequently.
Like, to help them diagnose the anxiety? I feel like feeding my insecurities like that would be dangerous.
Like, to help them diagnose the anxiety? I feel like feeding my insecurities like that would be dangerous.
Possibly, but my view is that you have time to raise every issue (real or perceived) with the resident. You're literally helping train them while you are sharing your concerns about your health. Having them addressed by your primary care physician can go a long way to mitigating your anxiety. Some, maybe all, teaching clinics are multidisciplinary and have therapists on-site as well as dieticians.
It is a fantastic model for healthcare, imo. I had a visit to the ER last summer and a subsequent follow-up with an ophthalmologist, and I was delighted that I was attended to by a resident first in both cases. I see a main part of my responsibility as a patient is to provide all the data I'm aware of, and for the health professionals to determine how relevant that data is. Doctors' time is limited and residents are good for leveraging their time.
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"The first thing that goes when you lose your hands, are your fine motor skills."
so I got mine recently. They found one pre-cancerous polyp so I get my next one in 7 years.
