I am very high-risk for colon cancer and believe that getting colonoscopy exams is essential for everyone….for people at high-risk like myself they can be life-saving. I have had numerous colonoscopies (unsedated because of severe drug allergies) and they were all pretty much painless and numerous pre-cancerous polyps were removed and follow-u exams scheduled. No problem until I moved and the local GI docs won’t schedule an unsedated colonoscopy: they don’t care if you have the Fap gene or life-threatening reactions to colonoscopy sedation….they refuse an unsedated exam (common worldwide) because it might take a few minutes longer…great, so my chances of colon cancel just went way up
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