Anyone doing the NHS Bowel Screening?

[parkie]

I first did this a couple of years ago at which time it was clear.
This year the test was 'inconclusive' and I was asked to repeat it after which I was told, by letter, that, following the results of the test, I was advised to go the my local hospital and an appointment had already been made for me.
I had a colonoscopy last week which was unsuccessful because the stuff I had to take the day before to clear my system out didn't work so I had to go through it all again today.
The process was a bit uncomfortable but the end result was I was given the 'all clear'.
I had 80 cm of my bowel removed 10 years ago so I was a bit apprehensive about what the result could be but the point of all this is to encourage anyone who finds themselves in the same position to have the test. The medical staff are great and go through every eventuality with you and I think it pays to have your mind set at rest for the sake of a bit of inconvenience.
The chances of it being cancer are quite low but if it is, the sooner it is diagnosed, the better.

[Sqad]

Shaneystar.......why was your husband's anal cancer missed? reason, because they we not looking at the anus.....he was having a colonoscopy and they were looking at the colon.
An inexperienced surgeon can easily slip the scope passed the anus without giving if a second glance.......it shouldn't happen. but it does and in other parts of the body.

Another reason may have been that at the time of colonoscopy. it wasn't visible by the naked eye and it grew rapidly in six months.

[shaneystar2]

He didn't have a colonoscopy Sqad .He did the postal home test for bowel cancer ..This came back all clear .Then not long after getting the all clear from this test he began to lose weight rapidly and bleed from his rectum which is when I shuffled him off to the doctor.
He then had a sigmoidoscopy which is when they found it .

[Sqad]

shaneystar........ah!.....right.