I have Medicare which would pay for a conventional screen, but I am very physically uncomfortable with the blood disease I have and would rather eschew all the rigamarole of the regular test. I'm pretty sure if the Cologuard test is positive, you have to get the real test.

Did it once. Gross, but beats prepping for the real one. It was easy to use. And yes, if anything shows up, you'll need the real one. Protip: Get hemorrhoids under control before using. Blood in the sample will flag you for follow-up.

.....colo.......rectal......

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My mom died from colon cancer so, that leaves me out of a "quickee-test". I generally get "scoped" about every three years. so far, so good.

....I know it can be a.......bum.....mer......but one just needs to do the colonoscopy route, especially if at high risk [ past a certain age or if it runs in your family ].......

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Test of a marriage...carrying your spouses poop sample through the UPS store for drop-off. It's not a plain wrapped box, it has the big ColoGuard logos. I didn't wait for a receipt...dropped and skedaddled.

ColoGuard is super expensive too...our insurance only covered a small part.

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Test of a marriage...carrying your spouses poop sample through the UPS store for drop-off. It's not a plain wrapped box, it has the big ColoGuard logos. I didn't wait for a receipt...dropped and skedaddled.

ColoGuard is super expensive too...our insurance only covered a small part.

My niece had just begun as a Nurse Practitioner when a man she barely knew met her in the parking lot as she was arriving to work. He had a baby food jar packed with crap. It was from his wife. He asked my niece to check it for worms.

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My niece had just begun as a Nurse Practitioner when a man she barely knew met her in the parking lot as she was arriving to work. He had a baby food jar packed with crap. It was from his wife. He asked my niece to check it for worms.

Did it have worms?

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My niece had just begun as a Nurse Practitioner when a man she barely knew met her in the parking lot as she was arriving to work. He had a baby food jar packed with crap. It was from his wife. He asked my niece to check it for worms.

Did it have worms?

She didn't take it.

They advertise A LOT which is always my first red flag.

Every colonoscopy I've had has found polyps that were removed during the procedure.

I'm not sure of their specifics but their commercials say that it can detect 92% of cancer. Detecting cancer seems way too late, the colonoscopy detects polyps before they become cancer.

I've done it, as an alternative to colonoscopy under current corona conditions. It really wasn't that bad, and only slightly gross. And yes, it's got a 92% accuracy -- so it can potentially give false positives and false negatives. That being said, the results are good for two years, according to my doc. So no colonoscopy for me for at least another year or so, and even then I might go for the Cologuard over a colonoscopy. (Yes, it could miss something, but I would think that repeated negative results are fairly comforting.)

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