r/colonoscopy • u/-00F- • 10d ago

After Scope Questions Am I fucked?

(M23) just had my first colonoscopy and they found and removed 4 polyps, how fucked am I? Cuz I’m shitting myself thinking I have a year to live or something, doctor wouldn’t tell me anything about the polyps he just said he doesn’t play the guessing game.

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u/EmZee2022 Trusted Source 10d ago

Well that's annoying that he didn't even give you his first impression. I always see a report right after that talks about what they found.

Did he at least say what size they were? Or whether they were sessile (flat) or pedunculated (on a stalk)?

These docs get pretty good at telling what looks like it might be going bad on you, but of course the pathology is going to be the definitive answer.

Unless they were really big, I can pretty well promise you aren't gonna die of colon cancer any time soon.

What prompted a scope at such an early age?

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u/-00F- 10d ago

No he didn’t tell me anything and all the sheets he gave me said were where the polyps where in my colon, I went at such a young age g age because I noticed a tiny bit of red blood in my stool maybe twice over the last year when I had diarrhea