By 2035, rectal cancer death rates could exceed deaths from colon cancer, new research suggests.
    • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I had one this year (45). The procedure itself is nothing. They zonk you out, you wake up in another room. You have to bring a driver. Not even sore or anything after, and I felt finenbasically right after.

      The bitch is the prep. It tastes like ass. I tried, many things, well, Gatoraid, I think maybe some broth, cooling it, etc. Its sooo gross.

      At some point you get to the point where you drink and basically 30 seconds later its coming out the other end.

      But try not to let that discourage you, you will live after. Also, FWIW, I didn’t finish mine, once it seemed to literally come right out clear, at like 2 AM, I just stopped. I think I did one and another half.

      • Deyis@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 days ago

        The bitch is the prep. It tastes like ass.

        This doesn’t adequately describe how fucking foul it is. You’re right, though, that the goal is to basically drink as much as you can without puking so that you can borderline shit yourself to death.

        • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          It definitely does not. Also, it never gets better. If anything it gets somehow worse.

          Like the first round I mixed with gatoraide a d got though fairly quickly.

          The second I could barely do sips. And tried adding more flavors and it did not help.

          Drinking so much at once with nothing else also does not help.

  • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Pesticides seems to be the main likely culprit. Wash your fruits and veggies! Though that’s not going to stop exposure.

    I always wonder though if these are actually increases or just better diagnosis. It used to be that you couldn’t get insurance to pay for colonoscopies under like 60 or so. And with blood tests available it’s much more likely to get caught. Is it just that previously the cancer would spread much further before detection and by then you couldn’t tell where it originated and it was blamed on other things like smoking, or is it really increases.

    But either way, it is there and we know likely causes, but it will take a generation or two before any action can be taken against the companies profiting from the pesticides, so take precautions where you can and wash fresh fruits and veggies and dont use those pesticides in your lawns or gardens. And if you have to be around the pesticides after spraying, wear a mask and wash your hands.

    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 days ago

      You thought Agent Orange was just for Vietnam Vets (and of course the millions of Vietnamese we sprayed and whose land we poisoned), but no! Monsanto (now Bayer) and Cargill and DuPont (now Corteva) are here at home to make sure it’s not only Boomers who die from their literal poisons!

    • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Some of us geniuses simply do not eat fruits and vegetables. 😎

      • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Actually that’s potentially even worse depending on what you eat. Processed food often contains lots of pesticides and herbicides because they don’t need to spend money making the ingredients look clean like stuff sold fresh. 🙃 Though on the plus side, some processing does break down the toxins. And meats are sometimes worse as well since they don’t clean things for food animals and give them lots of other things that aren’t very good for you like growth hormones and excessive amounts of antibiotics making many bacteria immune. I’ve been trying to reduce my animal product consumption for that reason as well as ethical reasons, but its rough, especially without substituting with lots of processed foods, which may or may not be better, lol. There’s no ethical consumption in post-capitalist society.