Replying to bethyking no I did not have symptoms and thats...

[00:00:00]No, I did not have symptoms to get one at a younger age. That's the problem.

[00:00:05]That's why I'm saying you just need to get one.

[00:00:07]If I'd have gotten one at age 35, they would have found the polyps and it wouldn't have turned into cancer. If I'd have gotten one at age 40, they also would have found the polyps, had them removed, and it would not have turned to cancer. I didn't have any of the symptoms in order to justify going in to get one, which is why I'm telling you if you're of that age, you should be getting one anyways. See, I got diagnosed at 43, and the only reason I went in to get diagnosed is because the stage four had gone to my liver, and my liver had expanded and swollen so much that it was pushing on my intestines and it was causing pain and causing dizziness and light-headedness and fevers and chills and all these other problems that I went into just a walk-in clinic to where they ended up taking blood to see that my liver enzymes were through the roof, which then led to going to a gastroenterologist to where then I had a CT done that showed lesions, and then the lesions were biopsied to then show that it was colorectal [clears throat] cancer that had stage four advanced to my liver.

[00:01:05]I didn't go get a colonoscopy. In fact, I didn't have my first colonoscopy until after I was diagnosed. But, if I was age 35, age 38, age 40, and I'd have gone in and had a colonoscopy done, even though the guidelines right now used to be 50 years old, now it's 45 years old, I think it needs to be 35 years old because who knows what's been in our food over all these years, and it's also it can be genetic as well. You can go get something called Lynch syndrome testing where they do a blood test to see if you're genetically predisposed to having colon cancer.

[00:01:34]But, all those different factors are going on in your body and they're happening at an early age for people now. So, why I say if you are over the age of 35 and you haven't gotten a colonoscopy for a preventative measure, you need to find a way to do it. Now, when I said in my previous video, I said lie to your doctor. I don't condone lying to your medical professionals. I think you should be 100% honest with them all the time. However, if nobody is going to give you a colonoscopy, you have two options. You either have to convince that doctor that you need one by maybe making up a story of saying you had blood in your poop last week or the week before for like two or three days straight, even though they can't see it right then and there, they may be able to order you a colonoscopy saying, "Hey, we need to check this out." The other option is [clears throat] to go pay for it out of pocket. I know that sucks in today's day and age, but if you shop around and look in your area or look in a bigger city in your area or nearby and just look up colonoscopies at some kind of a gastro gastrointestinal type of center, you can sometimes find them for under $2,000, under $1,500.

[00:02:37]There's a place in town here that will do them for $1,300.

[00:02:40]Go put it on a payment plan.

[00:02:42]The idea is if you get it done, you get the polyps removed, you will not get colon cancer.

[00:02:48]So, if you are over the age of 35, you need to find a way to get one. If you're over the age of 40, you should already have made that appointment. If you're over 45, you should have had one done by now. That's That's just what I'm going with. I know those aren't the guidelines, but that's that's what I'm telling you.

[00:03:03]So, you trust me. You don't want to get colon cancer. You don't want to have to do this like I have for the last five over five years. Okay?

[00:03:13]It's better safe than sorry.