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I have to have a colostomy cause of a home test turning out positive. what are the chances its cancer? i have to wait till they call me about it cause they have to approve it with medicaid first. and what are those tests like?

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DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M

You will be okay. Yeah, insurance has to approve it first.
Then you have to take the god awful, nasty, disgusting lime aid koolaid the day before. OMG, it's nasty. People say you drink it.....nope.......you gag it down.

But it works. You have to drink a gallon of the stuff. But I recently read that they came out with a new alternative that is only a quart that you have to drink but I don't recall the name.

But everything everyone has said is right. I have had 3 and 2 of them were done while I was awake. But your first one should be done asleep. But it was fun watching it on the monitor and talking to the staff about football and the beach and Playstation video games.

You need to find a ride home afterwards. If you don't have a ride, ask them for a medical taxi.

Ask them for pictures of your colon.......it's interesting if you have never seen it.

Ask them for a morning appointment. You can't eat from noon, the day before and if you get it done in the morning you can get it over with and eat lunch.

When I had my second one it was at 3 in the afternoon and I had been about 36 hours since I had eaten and I thought I was going to starve.......omg.

Get it done early in the morning.......you'll thank me for it.

Don't worry about the home test......it could be a lack of protein in your diet, dehydration.......lots of things.

Hang in there.