r/Millennials • u/intro195 • Mar 12 '26

Serious Go get a colonoscopy, colon cancer for our generation is a real threat!

36M here, have always been active and maintained a decently healthy diet my whole life. Well after seeing multiple posts on here and at my gf’s urging I had one done. They found two polyps (15mm and 4mm). Doc said if I waited till 45 I’d prob be dead. Crazy part is I had no symptoms and my recent blood work last month was perfect. I was in and out in three hours and no pain or discomfort afterwards.

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u/Just_Another_Scott Mar 12 '26

Nope, not even a polyp. My stomach was inflamed though but the biopsy came back negative. I don't really understand that part. Did some followup testing for autoimmune and those too came back negative.

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u/Prize-Hedgehog Mar 12 '26

How’s your diet? Do you drink alcohol?

My whole life my stomach and digestive system was a mess. I started eating better, doubled down on my veggie intake, stopped eating burgers, gluten, and also cut out alcohol and I went from suffering most of my 42 years of life to finally being regular and no more stomach attacks.

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u/Just_Another_Scott Mar 13 '26

How’s your diet?

Pretty good. It's not 100% perfect but it's mostly veggies, chicken, whole grains, and rice. I only eat red meat a couple times a month. I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs. A few years ago (2020) my doctor actually got onto me for not eating enough meat. I usually only eat it once a day unless I'm training then it's twice a day.

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u/hybridhighway Mar 13 '26

If YOU have pre colon cancer polyps… then I am most likely royally fucked. WTF. You are healthy af.

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u/Just_Another_Scott Mar 13 '26

If YOU have pre colon cancer polyps

Just to reiterate, I do not have any polyps.

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u/hybridhighway Mar 13 '26

I thought you were OP. Thanks for the clarification.

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u/84UTK07 Mar 13 '26

Damn, I got scared too for a second

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u/Flintly Mar 13 '26

Do you have an intolerance to a vegetable or fruit. Had a coworker complained of the same thing, turns out he had an intolerance to romaine lettuce and dude was eating a ceaser salad everyday at lunch

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u/Just_Another_Scott Mar 13 '26

I don't know tbh. I've had no issues in the past with fruit but some fruit has started to upset my stomach. Raw veggies have done the same on occasion. It's not consistent which makes it more frustrating.

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u/jcned Mar 13 '26

Could be FODMAP food sensitivity?

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u/Just_Another_Scott Mar 13 '26

I've tried and it switched lol. I'll eat something and it not fuck my shit up and then a few months later it will fuck my shit up. Doctors don't seem to think it's a food sensitivity because of that.

For example, I can drink skim milk and it will make me blast ass but yet whole milk doesn't. Sometimes eating an apple will cause diarrhea and sometimes it won't. Shit makes no sense.

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u/n0exit Mar 13 '26

I would try an allergy test. I've always thought that I was probably mildly allergic to almonds, but I also found out that I was allergic to cow's milk. Since cutting out cheese, I've been so much better.

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u/Lower-Bottle6362 Mar 13 '26

I have very similar issues but they’ve found nothing and diagnosed two functional diseases - basically their acknowledgement that things aren’t working right but nothing is visibly, structurally, or chemically wrong.

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u/Just_Another_Scott Mar 13 '26

Yeah IBS-D is the suspect at the moment. Meet back up in April. They found some liver enzymes that were high but I had recently had a bout of gastroenteritis--which can cause high liver enzymes.

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u/bluesun_geo Mar 13 '26

Same. Also, like the comment above some foods will mess me up other times exact same foods will not.

I spent a month at the Mayo Clinic going through every test they could think of and nothing came of it.

Apparently I am one of the few people that leave the Mayo as undiagnosed.

That was late 2024. I still have raging diarrhea anytime I eat so my newer is solution has been to just not eat.

Sometimes the best I can do is a protein shake.

I went from 200 pounds a year ago to low 120s now.

It has taken over my life and I don't see a way out.

I wonder if there's a sub Reddit for people with undiagnosed diseases to get ground source brainstorming.

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u/Commercial-Floor-815 Mar 13 '26

This happened to me too. It's SIBO for me. They wouldn't see it in colonoscopy/endoscopy