Anyone have a positive Cologuard test?

Yeah but had you NOT done the Cologuard test would you have scheduled a colonoscopy? Or would a Doctor even have recommended a colonoscopy?

Not cancer but polyp could develop into cancer. They could not remove all of the polyp because it was flat. Wants me to have another colonoscopy in November.

How were your test results?

That's the hard part trying to get a doctor's visit which takes months. Why? Years ago, people were sick, and you didn't have to wait that long. Something is not right about this at all.

My diagnosis sounds like exactly what you went thru. Had a colonoscopy last week after a positive colorguard. Flat polyp at appendix and colon. Scraped polyp for biopsy. Waiting for results.
Thanks for sharing your journey.

@medicar, while I'm very sorry you were diagnosed with cancer, I'm glad that it was caught early because of screening.

Have you testing positive for Lynch? How did the meeting with the surgeon go? What are next steps?

That is the MAJOR problem with the Cologuard tests!!!. You may have a false negative or false positive reading so how good is that if your potential life depends on it? From what I have read, the test cannot differentiate between benign or cancerous polyps present so either way I believe it is prudent to get a colonoscopy. The last time I used magnesium citrate in ginger ale along with laxatives for a prep, but for whatever reasons, somehow the magnesium citrate got contaminated and it has been pulled off the shelves everywhere.
I had a colonoscopy two weeks ago and since I am now 73, this will be my last one unless something unusual comes up. This round I ended up using a split prep of Miralax and Gatorade zero (flavor of glacier cherry which has no red coloring) along with Ducolax and, overall, the prep went better than expected. My major problem with these preps is that I am not a person who drinks a lot of fluids and getting 64 ounces down in a limited period of time is the real challenge for me. This time I drank 4 8-oz. glasses of the mixture in the evening and the same amount in the early morning since my appt. was at 2 p.m.
Fortunately, for me, this time I had zero polyps. I feel good that I got it done because if I had polyps presumably the dr. could have removed them successfully since I had my last colonoscopy 9 years ago. Even if one has cancerous polyps that are relatively small, they can be removed before they proliferate and cause life threatening problems.
I hope you good forward in getting the colonoscopy to see what is really happening and get it taken care of promptly. Best of luck to you!

I am a 53 year-old-female. I had a routine Cologuard test come back positive in Dec. 2022. It was recommended to follow up with a colonoscopy. I had told myself it was probably positive from possibly hemorrhoid. The colonoscopy had a positive finding for a 60mm mass in my cecum. The biopsy confirmed cancer adenocarcinoma. I am awaiting further testing for Lynch Syndrome and will meet with the surgeon next week.

I had a positive Cologuard test and had a colonoscopy at age 84. The doctor found a small, benign looking polyp which came back negative. The doctor told me that he doesn't think I need to bother with further Cologuard tests, probably because of my age (still 84).

Interestingly when I had a CAT scan several years ago since I had lots of digestive problems the radiologist picked up that I had a mucinous neoplasm of the appendix incidentally. My gastroenterologist at the time advised me that these neoplasms are precancerous and need to be removed so I ended up having an appendectomy. Fortunately when they removed it it was self-contained and had no cancer cells. I was told and read that they are fairly rare but when it happens to you statistics don't matter. I hope by now you have finalized a diagnosis and feel much better.