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Anyone have a positive Cologuard test?
My test results came back positive. I asked what did it show, because they test for 11 different cancers or categories. They said, it just states either negative or positive for cancer. I had problems a few years back and did a colonoscopy, which came back ok. Now this!! I'm reading theres a 13 percent chance of false positive. Right now I'm extremely distraught about having to go through all Consults, tests, and dreaded preps. Orders are in for Consult with gastro, but they're booked out through January or February in Mayo. I have not received any notice for appointment yet. Dont know what to think or do.
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Scheduled for September. Hope they get it out otherwise my appendix needs to come out.
Did they get your flat Poly out?
Can toooo much urine in the test sample cause a positive result? Positive Results showed as comment of abnormal.
Did you have any symptoms of colon cancer?
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1 ReactionMy doctor always checks when the last colonoscopy was. Mine was a few months after 5 years and I had no polyps last time.
My flat polyp is near the appendix and all the info I could find says very few are found during a colonoscopy most are noted at an autopsy. So that being said maybe my polyp would not have been found without doing the colorguard first. Perhaps the doctor doing my colonoscopy was looking more closely since the positive colorguard.
Wont ever know just glad that it was found.
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2 ReactionsI had a cologuard test in 2018 and that came back "negative". I had another cologuard test in 2022 and that came back "positive". I personally was not in a hurry to get a colonoscopy and endoscopy and because of my weight (220) I had to get it done in the hospital so the first available date was March 14th. I feared and endoscopy more than a colonoscopy because of a friend telling me she was awake when she had one. Needless to say that was this week and my colonoscopy was clean as a whistle. The doctor gave me pictures as well, it was indeed very interesting. However, I had very minut bleeding in my stomach which resulted in the "positive" cologuard result. I got pictures of that too. I did take a lot of Aleve (like PM nightly - 2 years) and sometimes daily as well for my osteoarthritis and I asked my regular doctor to put me back on Celebrex in October which she did. My Gastroenterologist said that Celebrex was better for my condition than Aleve. I was on 1/4 to 1/2 a pill of hydrocodone daily 325-10 mg for my joint pain and osteoarthritis for 14 years and never had a problem. My doctor said the insurance probably wouldn't approve hydrocodone anymore because of all the drug overdoses so that's when I switched to Aleve daytime and PM and Tylenol on top of that. It's a shame that people that really need certain medications can't get them because of the misuse of drugs in this country :-(. So the moral of my story is that other things can cause a "Positive" reading for Cologuard and not cancer or polyps, etc. I know the prep is unpleasant but once it's done it's done. I'm 70 yr. old female. Hopefully that was my last colonscopy in my lifetime. Good luck to you.
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4 ReactionsYeah but had you NOT done the Cologuard test would you have scheduled a colonoscopy? Or would a Doctor even have recommended a colonoscopy?
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1 ReactionNot 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.