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Anyone had an abnormal Cologard and got referred for colonoscopy?
I had my first Colonoscopy at 51 (average no family risk factors). I was good and I was told to come back in 10 years for another. Fast forward I was due for one this year and opted for Cologuard screening instead. It came back abnormal and now I need to follow up with a Colonoscopy. I was on the fence in the first place and should have done Colonoscopy. Now my anxiety is up and I am not trying to go down the rabbit hole about this. I feel fine and have no GI symptoms to speak of. I have read a lot about false positives (my PCP told me 13%) and I have suffer in the past from hemorrhoids/fissures. Anyone else have this experience that they can share? I just wished now I would have gone with my first instinct and just gotten colonoscopy.
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For anyone who is interested, I thought it might be useful to post a link to this study, which looks at patient attitudes and experiences that positively and negatively influenced whether they completed the mt-sDNA test kit (Cologard) and expected to do so in the future:
- Attitudes and Experiential Factors Associated with Completion of mt-sDNA Test Kit for Colorectal Cancer Screening https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23743735231213765
This was published in the Journal of Patient Experience in 2023. It does involve some Mayo Clinic and Exact Sciences (the maker of Cologard) authors. It touches on the patient anxiety that @dbchip mentions, but it is not entirely focused on the emotional side of its use (i.e., some of it looks at comfort, embarrassment, ease of use and following instructions, etc.)