Bowel Cancer Screening Kits

[icyfroth]

Anyone participating in that program?

I got an invitation in the mail yesterday inviting me to participate and a kit would be sent out to me in 4-6 weeks.

Contact them if you want to opt out.

I opted out per instructions on their website.

I just didn't want to go through the motions.

http://www.cancerscreening.gov.au/

[twyngwyn]

I think you're being a n a l , icy 🙂

[icyfroth]

And I think you've got a bit of cheek saying that, Gwyn 

[nicnacs_4u]

did it and the results are good

[twyngwyn]

[purple_haize]

Icy, have a colonoscopy the stuff you take before hand isnt horrible these days, and the actual procedure you dont feel as  they give you anisthetic, all over in a hour and you can go home.........better to be safe, than sorry.

[icyfroth]

Thanks Haize, but If I ain't doin' the mail-order test there ain't NO WAY I'll be doin' a colonoscopy!

[the_great_she_elephant]

Do you have regular pap smears?

[bright.ton42]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Thanks Haize, but If I ain't doin' the mail-order test there ain't NO WAY I'll be doin' a colonoscopy!

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LOL    a colonoscopy is no picnic.     The stuff I was given was pure poison.  yes you're out for the procedure but it's what goes before for 2 days that for me was plain torture.  

[lyau086]

There's no history of breast cancer in my family on either side.....guess I drew the short straw because I was diagnosed 6 weeks ago.

[chameleon54]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Thanks Haize, but If I ain't doin' the mail-order test there ain't NO WAY I'll be doin' a colonoscopy!

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I was like you icy when I recieved one of the kits in the mail for my 50,th birthday. ( Present from the government ) I threw it in the bin, cos I wasnt doing poo poos in an icy cube tray. A few months later I went to the doctor for an anual check up and he gave me a good telling off and handed me a new tray. It wasnt that big a drama and all came back clear.  Having done one, I would probably do another test in a couple of years time.

Just make sure you add the clear ice cubes to your refreshments or it could add a whole new meaning to drinky poos.