There is 1 good reason to not do this if you live in the US and here's why. Let's say you don't have health insurance. You get a diagnosis and you have cancer. It's going to cost 10 jillion dollars to do anything about it because healthcare providers don't give regular people the same prices as the health insurance companies get charged. Well lets say a year later you get a job with health insurance. Now you can't have health insurance cover that because they can prove it's a "preexisting condition". Have fun getting all your wages confiscated due to all that medical debt so you'll have to choose between dying in homelessness or having to flee to a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US. Or maybe Mike Johnson will let you live out the rest of your days in gulag out of generosity.

If you know something is wrong with you and are in a similar situation you're probably just better off making the most of the time you have left on your own terms.

Every single time I've seen blood in my shit, it's because a hemorrhoid popped.

Hemorrhoids: Am I a joke to you?

This is how Ulcerative Colitis goes too.

Important PSA. Colon cancer isn’t as deadly as other types and a lot of that is because of all the work that goes into early screening and detection. At the same time, it’s on the rise in younger people.

to be honest more common reason could be polyps though so dont go crazy the first time you see blood on your stool.

I found it really hard to talk about and seek treatment for this subject at the time, and I was quite aware of how sick I might be. Maybe this will help somebody. I've had the butt-probe three times now, and the good doctor expects me again next year. I'm totally cured. No blood no more. Let me share ...

The critical danger is polyps that grow on the lining of your intestine. They go bad and turn into cancer. Doc wants to snip them off for you. If you are 50 years old, go do that.

The home test ... If it finds any blood at all, you'll fail the test and have to do the colonoscopy. If you're approaching 50, you have polyps, they are bleeding, and its gonna find blood. You can waste your time with the home test or just go get checked.

Most folks with red blood in stool probably have internal hemorrhoids. Lots of things can cause them to flare up, including drinking alcohol, spicy greasy food, and anything else that irritates your gut. This is the best-case scenario. Internal roids are fixable with a (very uncomfortable) outpatient surgery.

The are obviously (MANY) other conditions that can go wrong there (external roids, lobsters up your butt, all sorts of stuff can happen), but these are the big things the doc says when you first talk. Roids and dangling cancer worms. Doc needs to take a look and tell you.

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And then the cure ... oh ya, got the butt probe, got the roids ... um ... "pinned". That lessened the bleeding but didn't fix anything. Turns out my problem was a gut microbe imbalance, most likely brought on by some large doses of antibiotics I had to take for dental surgeries. Some righteous kimchi straight from a backyard in Korea cured me. That and a whole lot of fiber. All the time. Real fiber. Beans. Spinach. Black rice. Gotta feed them gut bugs. Or they will eat you instead.

Mix some beets into food (don't tell anyone), scare everyone when their poop is red

Funny story: once i took a shit that was eerily red and started to panic. I searched and searched for possible causes and then after getting up i noticed in my trash bin an emptied 100g pack of beetroot chips i ravaged in a weed-addled munchies frenzy, and facepalmed

I'm colorblind, i'll just die of cancer.

Good PSA. RIP TotalBiscuit

Well, judging by the name, this is the appropriate community.

Bright red blood is usually from tearing.

I think the blood from colon cancer would be very dark and coagulated.

I’m eating. Thanks.

fuck cancer. all my homies hate cancer. good on you for making this PSA.

D'awwwwww i just had a colonoscopy today. 2 likely benign polyps. I'll know in a week. I then proceeded to eat all the things.