Hi, @dbchip. This may sound like a downer, but I'm trusting it will be a message of hope. Basically the worst I could have imagined occurred after my abnormal result from the Cologard DNA stool test, but now everything is all right.

My primary care doctor referred me for a colonoscopy. I was concerned at that point, but my doctor seemed to think it was likely something benign that was no big deal. My husband also is really big on not spending energy and time worrying about theoreticals, so I did not spend a lot of time worrying precolonoscopy. I did my colonoscopy pretty promptly after the stool DNA test.

I got my colonoscopy results back on a Friday afternoon, so it was not surprising that no one interpreted them for me over the weekend. I do not fully understand pathology or radiology results. These medical professionals just speak their own language. So I was reading a lot of jargon in my patient portal, one sentence of which made it look like I could have cancer. My husband did not fully understand it, either, and thought maybe it was saying I had some kind of marker for cancer. It was a little bit scary.

Well, I learned that Monday I did have cancer, a neuroendocrine tumor found alongside a couple of polyps. That was super surprising to me, especially as this cancer is rare. My doctors launched a series of different types of imaging and testing to find out if there was any residual tumor. My tumor was found in late July 2023, and I spent a lot of time going to the doctor that fall.

Long story short, the doctors learned that the colonoscopy had gotten all trace of cancer out of my body. I had a bit of residual trauma, I'd say, from the whole experience and the scanxiety people talk about (in one scan, I had tears flowing down my cheeks on both sides the whole time). But in a couple months that was all kind of a distant memory, and I've been perfectly normal since.

dbchip, have you had the colonoscopy? If so, what did they find?