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After a few runs and several hours after my colonoscopy and having eaten some solid food, I've found 2 small white oval seeds in the toilet but I don't recall eating any seeds today or in the past couple of days. Google says it's possible for them to hide in the folds of the colon and miss the prep flush. I wonder how many days/weeks they've been hiding there.

I also found a small worm as hoped and expected. I knew the deworm drugs I got (in Ontario) didn't work. I probably need to something stronger for those.

Has anyone else found something interesting?

Just had my first colonoscopy at 51, Asian male. They removed 2 polyps, 1 small and 1 large. Due to the larger one they want me back in 1 year for another colonoscopy. They didn't tell me what type it was but maybe I'll find out in 2-4 weeks after they've analyzed the polyps for any cancer cells.

I had originally thought it was a false positive test due to hemorrhoids caused by a new gout medicine but was glad to be proven wrong.

Not sure about the rest of Canada but in the province of Ontario, they ship you a complete-at-home stool test (called FIT) that you drop off in the mail. If the results are abnormal that means they found blood cells in your stool even if you didn't see any blood.

I had just done the 1st dose Shingrix vaccine which then triggered a gout attack. The new meds I tried for the gout gave me the runs and hemorrhoids. At the same time I was told to complete my FIT asap. I assume it was a false positive and the blood came from the H. While I don't know if I would have had a positive test for the stool test had I done it at another time, I'm just glad to have had the polyps removed.

Btw, I had mine done in Toronto, Ontario, at North York General. Staff was confusing telling me slightly different things at each step about the IV, from registration, then to intake, then finally all corrected with the anesthesiologist.

P.S. IV drip is different from sedation meds, which is also done by IV. First time doing this so I didn't know that I could do sedation by IV and also not get IV drip. It seems obvious when I write it out.

For anyone that successfully dealt with PSTD trauma with a virtual therapist, could you recommend one that works Eastern Time zone?

I was hoping I would never run into the dreaded "brake check" Markhamer or crazy person who tries to back into me but today I met one in the same person. Not sure if it was a broccoli head but dude gave me the finger after brake checking me. Then after we both turned on Church St. towards the hospital, he went over to the wrong lane, past the red light, and then tried to back into me but stopped short, maybe because it was his dad's Benz I don't know.

He ended up driving into a hospital parking lot and I went around the corner to the community centre. I think we walked past each other on the sidewalk. He was a scrawny young guy who didn't look so tough outside his car. Took a pic of his (or his dad's) license plate and then reported it online.

Now there's another reason to move from a unit with 1 layer glass balcony doors covering practically the whole side of my unit. It's like I'm actually outside.