Colonoscopy multiple polyps

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Hi, I had a colonoscopy and the Dr mentioned I had a lot of polyps. He only removed 14 and said I’d need to come back in 3 months to have the rest removed.

I’m trying to see the positives, which is that he doesn’t think any look like cancer and they look benign. The ones removed ranged from 2mm-8mm.

But when I got home I started to google and the number of polyps I have seems unusual, which has now worried me. I’m also under 40.

has anyone else had experience with this level of polyps and what was the outcome? If I have regular colonoscopies, should that be enough to catch anything nasty early?

Would the Dr have assessed the other polyps he didn’t remove this time round and said if he thought any of those were suspicious?

thanks

I've had several colonoscopies and every time they find new polyps, I don't know how they keep growing in there! Anyway they remove them, analyse them in pathology and mine so far have been benign thankfully. I think they are what's called "pre cancerous" so if left in place they could turn into something else. It's a very common result of colonoscopy - to find polyps, and in my case dammit, diverticulosis as well. I'm doing fine though and will get a colonoscopy every three or so years from now on.

@fantamsorry to hear about the diverticulosis but glad you’re doing fine- they originally suspected that for me as well but turned out just lots of polyps! I was expecting a 20min procedure and it ended up around 1hr30 so found the whole thing quite uncomfortable and still have some lingering side effects from the procedure. I feel like I’ll be more prepared next time though 🙂

Did you have enough sedation (or any at all!)? There is no way I would go through that procedure without the proper dose of sedation where I feel and remember nothing, and I make sure the medics know this too. I also had long procedures but once that juice goes into the canulla I remember nothing until I'm back in the recovery ward, waiting for my grub!

The only after effect I had was very slight bleeding, but that's normal and it went away after a day or two. No pain or discomfort afterwards, and ahem, movement came back to normal very quickly. I felt I'd had my insides vacuumed ha ha 😊