You only have one life.One life to be the best you can be ,one life to be remembered by, one life.I am in love with the violin. i am in love with medical things. My mom died from cancer when i was 13 andi havnt been the same since. She told me that i could not play the violin so i got private lessons i am one of the best in my orchestra since then all i wanted to do was play music i loved the way it made me feel. But my feelings changed fast when i discovered the human anatomy. at first it was hard to watch medical things because of my mom.But i started watching shows like scrubs and greys anatomy and house and loved them.. i love the lab coats i want to save peoples lifes i want to be a seargin i understand the school that u have to go threw the debt i will be in i understand. But i want to save lives.colon cancer runs in my family and i am confident that i wont die if i understand it if i get sreeened for polyps. ik that i can save lives and like blood and i do research on nuerology and hearts and everything. but i love music and all of my friends are going to music school i do nt want to make a mistake and go to med school and think i made the rong decisian i also dont wanna go to music school and miss out on the oppurtunity of med school im 15 and time is running out idk wat to do.

I just felt a few tiny little hard "nodules" about an inch inside my rectum (size/texture of a sea salt grain), which I honestly thought where feces until i realized they were attached. (I’ve had a small, prolapsed hemorrhoid on/off for 5 years since my pregnancy that causes me to cleanse up in there). I’ve had no bleeding or pain. I’ve had constipation but I’ve recently been on pain meds for my back, which i assumed was causing it. I’ve never engaged in anal activity. When i read about hems or polyps, it usually speaks of fleshy bumps, not what I felt. Any thoughts? Should I be worried?

Hi, i’m an 18 years old girl, and i just got diagnosed of polyps on my colon.

I think i have actually noticed that something was not normal with my abdomen since about 2 or 3 years ago, cause i noticed that bright red blood occurs several times when i went to the toilet. but i thought it was okay, so i didnt tell my parents yet. and then about 9 months ago, i told my parents about it and we instantly assumed that it was hemorrhoid (since my father and his siblings have had taken hemorrohoid surgery). but then later on this week, i went to the gynecologist because my period circulation is very rapid, and when the doctor check my rectum with his finger, he told me to go to the surgeon because he’s suspicious of the hemorrhoid.

So right after that, I went to my uncle who is a surgeon (he haven’t know about my “hemorrhoid” yet). And then he “slipped in” a tube like sort of thing into my rectum and I don’t know what happened back there but I hear my uncle told my mom and the nurse beside him to look at those little grape like things. Then my uncle said that it wasn’t hemorrhoid but it was polyp. So I have to take surgery, and then after the polyp has lifted, it will be sent into the lab for a test. But my uncle told me that he wants me to go to another surgeon (digestive surgeon to be specific) before operation. And he said that how can you haven’t notice anything about it until today? You should’ve noticed it, since the polyps are not small (he didn’t said that they were big though). And I told him that I noticed the fresh blood and the mucus, but I thought that it was hemorrhoid.

I know that I will get the diagnoses from these doctors, but since I’m just curious and I haven’t made any appointments with another surgeon yet, can you help me with these questions please?
1.Is it possible that my uncle is mistaken? I mean that it really was a hemorrhoid.
2.If it is polyp, can you give a quick diagnose if this polyps are harmless polyps or not (cancer etc)?
3.Is it possible to have a colon cancer at the age of 18?

I’ve been seeing a gastroenterologist about rectal pain and he suggested doing a flexible sigmoidoscopy without sedation rather than a full colonoscopy because I’m pregnant. He said we can remove any masses we would find during the sigmoidoscopy.

The thing is, he kept reiterating that polyps don’t hurt above the dentate line, internal hemorrhoids don’t hurt above the dentate line yet I have a mass above the detate line that hurts ALOT when I touch it. I know they don’t use anesthetic when they do hemorrhoid banding for internal hemorrhoids, so I’m assuming they wouldn’t use any anesthetic. But whatever it is, it hurts a lot just touching it so I can’t imagine the pain it would cause cutting into it. I’m pregnant so I really don’t want to do general anesthesia.

Does anyone know? Do they numb the area when they remove things from your rectal wall?

Hi, my dad just had a colonoscopy and they found 2 polyps. One they were able to remove but one was big (almost the size of a tennis ball i think) and wasnt able to be removed at the same time. They have taken a piece out of that large polyp to see if it has cancer cells.

Are all large polyps cancerous? Whats the chances it is cancerous?

thanks for your help