Now --A QUESTION--replies appreciated

barbaranoela · Post by **barbaranoela** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:08 am

I have been asked as to when I had my last colonoscopy???
this is due to my low Iron count----

WHAT has a colonoscopy have to do with this????

Could it be internal bleeding????

Boy, am I not a happy camper---cus I DONt want to go thru that damn test!!!

Yes, I know it is a thing to have done----

ok---thanks for any answers

Barbara---the age atrophy

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:26 am

Hi Sis,

Blood loss from the intestinal tract is a common cause of anemia as we get older. Of course, colonoscopy would only pick up a problem in the colon - not, for example, from ulcers in the stomach or small intestine.

Do you have a microcytic, hypochromic anemia? I'm assuming you do, because this is the kind that needs iron. But this is also the kind that can result from slow, unnoticeable blood loss. If you wish, you could ask the doc for a stool test for blood. It's easy - you smear a little stool on a piece of cardboard with a popsicle stick on several occasions and take it back for analysis. There's a kit to do this.

Did they find any polyps or other problems on your last colonoscopy? If so, it should be repeated in 3-5 years.Don't blame you for avoiding it - it is not the most fun acitivity. LOL!

Love,

Sispolly

barbaranoela · Post by **barbaranoela** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:33 am

sis----my last oscopy---was clean-----

see---thats another thing---GP didnt define what type---and being this is my first time with this problem---I didnt know what to ask???

DAMN---

My retired GP---always had us do that stool test----

thanks much----now I can go further with this issue
luve sis B.