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Post by smsmith on Jul 8, 2019 9:19:42 GMT -6
If my Dr didn’t recommend one, I would have fired him and found another. It’s crazy that people have to fight for a procedure that can stop/prevent a common type of cancer. I agree. There's an easy screening procedure available that can detect lung cancer at an early stage. Good luck getting your insurance to pay for that test though.
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Post by nhmountains on Jul 8, 2019 9:23:03 GMT -6
Health Insurance is my niche in the world. Don't hate me it's just what I do, I didn't say I always enjoy it, I'd rather be in the woods! A colonoscopy is part of the ACA/Obamacare 10 essential health benefits handed out in January of 2014. In general terms a colonoscopy is covered 100% by an individual plan or a small group health plan (if you were for a large employer they are not under the ACA law and do not have to purchase plans that heed to this rule of coverage. If you are covered under the ACA scenario I discussed above the procedure, as well as the doctor, and facility is covered. Now if they remove polyps that part of diagnostic, not preventative and all other associated colonoscopy's from that point on will be diagnostic not preventative. Ya'll are correct the deductibles and out of pockets in todays market are getting out of hand for the small town families even out of the poverty threshold. I don't have much faith working in this stuff everyday that anyone is actually going to fix it but I do what I can to make it easier for people to understand at least. .......don't shoot me. Thanks BV, the bottom line for men over 45 is to get checked out because it beats the alternative. i believe my insurance covers the procedure as preventative care until, they find a polyp (or anything else that needs fixing). Then it switches over to my insurance which means hitting the deductible, etc.
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Post by nhmountains on Jul 8, 2019 9:32:26 GMT -6
Going in later this morning for the procedure. This is the 3rd one in 7 1/2 years. Hopefully I get the all clear and won't have to go thru this again for 10 years. Good luck Tom. I hope everything is clear for you.
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 8, 2019 9:41:18 GMT -6
If my Dr didn’t recommend one, I would have fired him and found another. It’s crazy that people have to fight for a procedure that can stop/prevent a common type of cancer. There's no money in prevention.
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Post by jbird on Jul 8, 2019 10:59:07 GMT -6
I had one a few years ago. It wasn't the cancer that was trying to kill me....it was my wife. My wife had me take a "stool softener" called senokot, said it was all natural -turns out there is something in that stuff that my system is VERY allergic to! Turns out nature can kill you too!
I got up that morning to go to the Dr for the check and the wife had me take a dose of senokot. I wasn't feeling great and thought it was just nerves.... I had roughly a 40 minute drive ahead of me. About 10 minutes out the drive....I thought I was going to shit my pants! No lie....that was the single worst struggle between mother natures call and my own physical ability to resist I have ever had. I found the nearest restroom (poor BP station) and I blew that SOB up! Seriously...I felt like I had passed things I had eaten a week prior! I felt a little better. Not another 15 minutes down the road....my stomach turned over and again....I had to shit and shit RIGHT NOW! Once again....I owe another gas station an apology. By the time I get to roughly where I was going....I am soaked in sweat, shaking, and yes....once again, about to shit my pants! I got to the hospital where they was going to do the procedure and I explained what was going on. The ER...came to me...I looked that bad! My doctor shows up and he asks me what I was doing and I told him I decided it would be easier to examine my colon if I expelled it from my body! The nurse busted out laughing, he was confused as hell and I was exhausted! Everything turned out fine, but what a day that was. One day in my life I was NOT full of shit!
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Post by Tooln on Jul 8, 2019 11:07:03 GMT -6
Good luck Tom I hope everything turns out good. The procedure isn't that bad, you'll hardly remember a thing. It's drinking the prep thats the bad part.
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Post by terrifictom on Jul 8, 2019 13:07:02 GMT -6
Back at home. 1 polyp so I h as v ed to h as ve another in 5 years. Every thing was normal on upper GI
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Post by terrifictom on Jul 8, 2019 17:41:36 GMT -6
Try to do this again without the drugs. I had one polyp which they removed. I will have to have another colonoscopy in 5 years. The Upper GI was normal
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