General Chit Chat

[Gary the Enfield]

blimey - internet security questions have turned a shade dark...


What is the name of your least favourite child?
McCauley Culkin

In what year did you abandon your dreams?
This year. And every one since 1999

What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress?
Haversham

At what age did your childhood pet run away?
126. He was a tortoise

In what city did you first experience ennui?
Viennui

What is your ex-wife’s newest last name?
Lector

On what street did you lose your childlike sense of wonder?
Down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel

When did you stop trying?

Just n

[Worthy4England]

blimey - internet security questions have turned a shade dark...


What is the name of your least favourite child?
McCauley Culkin

In what year did you abandon your dreams?
This year. And every one since 1999

What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress?
Haversham

At what age did your childhood pet run away?
126. He was a tortoise

In what city did you first experience ennui?
Viennui

What is your ex-wife’s newest last name?
Lector

On what street did you lose your childlike sense of wonder?
Down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel

When did you stop trying?

Just n

I see the response to the maiden name of your father's mistress is pretty much commensurate with your age.

Happy Birthday.

[Gary the Enfield]

blimey - internet security questions have turned a shade dark...


What is the name of your least favourite child?
McCauley Culkin

In what year did you abandon your dreams?
This year. And every one since 1999

What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress?
Haversham

At what age did your childhood pet run away?
126. He was a tortoise

In what city did you first experience ennui?
Viennui

What is your ex-wife’s newest last name?
Lector

On what street did you lose your childlike sense of wonder?
Down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel

When did you stop trying?

Just n

I see the response to the maiden name of your father's mistress is pretty much commensurate with your age.

Happy Birthday.

Ta. X

[Bijou Bob]

This morning in the post, I had a flyer for 'Lifescan'. It's a private medical company that offers scans of your heart, colon, liver etc. Being on the cusp of heart attack territory as far as my age goes, I'm quite tempted. Has anyone used them or similar at all? I'd be interested in your experiences before I commit the cash.

[Bruce Rioja]

This morning in the post, I had a flyer for 'Lifescan'. It's a private medical company that offers scans of your heart, colon, liver etc. Being on the cusp of heart attack territory as far as my age goes, I'm quite tempted. Has anyone used them or similar at all? I'd be interested in your experiences before I commit the cash.

No. I go to my GP for an MOT.

[Gary the Enfield]

This morning in the post, I had a flyer for 'Lifescan'. It's a private medical company that offers scans of your heart, colon, liver etc. Being on the cusp of heart attack territory as far as my age goes, I'm quite tempted. Has anyone used them or similar at all? I'd be interested in your experiences before I commit the cash.

Generally if you pay someone cash to find something, they'll find it.

If you have concerns about your health go and see your GP

If you have no concerns about your health, and your 'being of an age' does not count, then stop meithering and smell the roses.

Happy to help

[BWFC_Insane]

This morning in the post, I had a flyer for 'Lifescan'. It's a private medical company that offers scans of your heart, colon, liver etc. Being on the cusp of heart attack territory as far as my age goes, I'm quite tempted. Has anyone used them or similar at all? I'd be interested in your experiences before I commit the cash.

I'd not. If there is anything to worry about you'll get full diagnosis and treatment on the NHS. If there aren't any symptoms or risk factors why pay for a scan that isn't likely to show anything?

If you eat and live healthily and go to your doctor with anything of concern I'd not bother paying for anything else.

Just a personal view though.

[LeverEnd]

It could certainly pick up stuff a standard gp check wouldn't, and people do die from undiagnosed hear problems tumours etc. I think is so unlikely as not to be worth it though. Plus something could develop just after you have the scan so unless you Want to have them regularly I wouldn't bother. Depends how much it costs and how much you have spare. Could be very Interesting I suppose.

[Worthy4England]

I wrote to my local councillor some months ago, nothing major, but something I've not received a response for. Despite chasing a couple of times. It's mayoral elections on Thursday, and guess what? He's standing on a platform (among other things) of being responsive and accessible. Wonder if he's getting my vote?

[Bijou Bob]

This morning in the post, I had a flyer for 'Lifescan'. It's a private medical company that offers scans of your heart, colon, liver etc. Being on the cusp of heart attack territory as far as my age goes, I'm quite tempted. Has anyone used them or similar at all? I'd be interested in your experiences before I commit the cash.

Generally if you pay someone cash to find something, they'll find it.

If you have concerns about your health go and see your GP

If you have no concerns about your health, and your 'being of an age' does not count, then stop meithering and smell the roses.

Happy to help

Ta The scans would pick up anything that is currently asymptomatic, such as large polyps in the colon, a narrowing of my arteries that hasn't yet resulted in angina or an enlarged prostate for example. Given the family history and the patients I've heard about recently, I'd sooner not wait until the symptoms appear, at which time, it might just be too late - as it has been for some of them. Unfortunately, my GP would only deal reactively with symptoms, not proactively.

[Gary the Enfield]

This morning in the post, I had a flyer for 'Lifescan'. It's a private medical company that offers scans of your heart, colon, liver etc. Being on the cusp of heart attack territory as far as my age goes, I'm quite tempted. Has anyone used them or similar at all? I'd be interested in your experiences before I commit the cash.

Generally if you pay someone cash to find something, they'll find it.

If you have concerns about your health go and see your GP

If you have no concerns about your health, and your 'being of an age' does not count, then stop meithering and smell the roses.

Happy to help

Ta The scans would pick up anything that is currently asymptomatic, such as large polyps in the colon, a narrowing of my arteries that hasn't yet resulted in angina or an enlarged prostate for example. Given the family history and the patients I've heard about recently, I'd sooner not wait until the symptoms appear, at which time, it might just be too late - as it has been for some of them. Unfortunately, my GP would only deal reactively with symptoms, not proactively.

Surely if there's a family history of these things your GP should be checking you anyway?

[Bijou Bob]

In as much as they do a brief health check on my BP, check I'm a non smoker and my alcohol intake, which gives them a very low risk factor. That's about it. Unfortunately, I've had related to me recently by colleagues incidents of a death from lung cancer (non-smoker - 7 weeks after diagnosis) bowel cancer (15 weeks AD) and riddled with cancer (8 weeks AD) in the last few months and a friend of mine is recovering from kidney cancer, which was only found after he forced his very annoyed and sceptical GP into sending him for a test after some long standing but mild backpain.

Perhaps I'm getting just a little too risk averse in my dotage.

[Gary the Enfield]

In as much as they do a brief health check on my BP, check I'm a non smoker and my alcohol intake, which gives them a very low risk factor. That's about it. Unfortunately, I've had related to me recently by colleagues incidents of a death from lung cancer (non-smoker - 7 weeks after diagnosis) bowel cancer (15 weeks AD) and riddled with cancer (8 weeks AD) in the last few months and a friend of mine is recovering from kidney cancer, which was only found after he forced his very annoyed and sceptical GP into sending him for a test after some long standing but mild backpain.

Perhaps I'm getting just a little too risk averse in my dotage.

Cancer is a c*nt. Lost my Mum at 67 to lung cancer 5 years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer (and two years after she was given the all clear from it). The 'Specialist' insisted the chest pains she was having were down to scarring from the radiotherapy and the Mastectomy. two different cancers within 5 years.

One of my Uncles died at 46 with Bowel Cancer. Diagnosis to death in 6 weeks. I have a cousin who has lung cancer currently and doesn't have a long term prognosis. I have lost many relatives and friends to this bastard of a disease.

But this is CANCER. This isn't a hereditary illness or a contagion. It's a c*nt. Screen away if you will. But as has already been mentioned, what's the statute of limitations you give it before you test yourself again? A week? Two? A month? A year?

[Bijou Bob]

In as much as they do a brief health check on my BP, check I'm a non smoker and my alcohol intake, which gives them a very low risk factor. That's about it. Unfortunately, I've had related to me recently by colleagues incidents of a death from lung cancer (non-smoker - 7 weeks after diagnosis) bowel cancer (15 weeks AD) and riddled with cancer (8 weeks AD) in the last few months and a friend of mine is recovering from kidney cancer, which was only found after he forced his very annoyed and sceptical GP into sending him for a test after some long standing but mild backpain.

Perhaps I'm getting just a little too risk averse in my dotage.

Cancer is a c*nt. Lost my Mum at 67 to lung cancer 5 years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer (and two years after she was given the all clear from it). The 'Specialist' insisted the chest pains she was having were down to scarring from the radiotherapy and the Mastectomy. two different cancers within 5 years.

One of my Uncles died at 46 with Bowel Cancer. Diagnosis to death in 6 weeks. I have a cousin who has lung cancer currently and doesn't have a long term prognosis. I have lost many relatives and friends to this bastard of a disease.

But this is CANCER. This isn't a hereditary illness or a contagion. It's a c*nt. Screen away if you will. But as has already been mentioned, what's the statute of limitations you give it before you test yourself again? A week? Two? A month? A year?

1 in 3 of us will get cancer at some stage in our lives, in fact, 93% of men will get prostate cancer, although only 3% die of it. End of happy message.

A scan of the colon if clear, should give around 5-10 years of certainty that bowel cancer won't be an issue. Likewise, if my arteries are 30% blocked, it's time for some radical lifestyle changes to proactively manage the situation, rather than find myself jossing it one day in the gym on the cross trainer. Same applies with an enlarged prostate which might be benign growth that can be tackled early before it becomes something nasty (Although a radical prostitectomy doesn't sound much fun). Is it better to know, or not to know? Personal choice I suppose, but for me forewarned is forearmed, hence the question.

[Worthy4England]

In as much as they do a brief health check on my BP, check I'm a non smoker and my alcohol intake, which gives them a very low risk factor. That's about it. Unfortunately, I've had related to me recently by colleagues incidents of a death from lung cancer (non-smoker - 7 weeks after diagnosis) bowel cancer (15 weeks AD) and riddled with cancer (8 weeks AD) in the last few months and a friend of mine is recovering from kidney cancer, which was only found after he forced his very annoyed and sceptical GP into sending him for a test after some long standing but mild backpain.

Perhaps I'm getting just a little too risk averse in my dotage.

Cancer is a c*nt. Lost my Mum at 67 to lung cancer 5 years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer (and two years after she was given the all clear from it). The 'Specialist' insisted the chest pains she was having were down to scarring from the radiotherapy and the Mastectomy. two different cancers within 5 years.

One of my Uncles died at 46 with Bowel Cancer. Diagnosis to death in 6 weeks. I have a cousin who has lung cancer currently and doesn't have a long term prognosis. I have lost many relatives and friends to this bastard of a disease.

But this is CANCER. This isn't a hereditary illness or a contagion. It's a c*nt. Screen away if you will. But as has already been mentioned, what's the statute of limitations you give it before you test yourself again? A week? Two? A month? A year?

1 in 3 of us will get cancer at some stage in our lives, in fact, 93% of men will get prostate cancer, although only 3% die of it. End of happy message.

A scan of the colon if clear, should give around 5-10 years of certainty that bowel cancer won't be an issue. Likewise, if my arteries are 30% blocked, it's time for some radical lifestyle changes to proactively manage the situation, rather than find myself jossing it one day in the gym on the cross trainer. Same applies with an enlarged prostate which might be benign growth that can be tackled early before it becomes something nasty (Although a radical prostitectomy doesn't sound much fun). Is it better to know, or not to know? Personal choice I suppose, but for me forewarned is forearmed, hence the question.

You probably don't want to be forearmed - especially in the prostate area...

[Gary the Enfield]

In as much as they do a brief health check on my BP, check I'm a non smoker and my alcohol intake, which gives them a very low risk factor. That's about it. Unfortunately, I've had related to me recently by colleagues incidents of a death from lung cancer (non-smoker - 7 weeks after diagnosis) bowel cancer (15 weeks AD) and riddled with cancer (8 weeks AD) in the last few months and a friend of mine is recovering from kidney cancer, which was only found after he forced his very annoyed and sceptical GP into sending him for a test after some long standing but mild backpain.

Perhaps I'm getting just a little too risk averse in my dotage.

Cancer is a c*nt. Lost my Mum at 67 to lung cancer 5 years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer (and two years after she was given the all clear from it). The 'Specialist' insisted the chest pains she was having were down to scarring from the radiotherapy and the Mastectomy. two different cancers within 5 years.

One of my Uncles died at 46 with Bowel Cancer. Diagnosis to death in 6 weeks. I have a cousin who has lung cancer currently and doesn't have a long term prognosis. I have lost many relatives and friends to this bastard of a disease.

But this is CANCER. This isn't a hereditary illness or a contagion. It's a c*nt. Screen away if you will. But as has already been mentioned, what's the statute of limitations you give it before you test yourself again? A week? Two? A month? A year?

1 in 3 of us will get cancer at some stage in our lives, in fact, 93% of men will get prostate cancer, although only 3% die of it. End of happy message.

A scan of the colon if clear, should give around 5-10 years of certainty that bowel cancer won't be an issue. Likewise, if my arteries are 30% blocked, it's time for some radical lifestyle changes to proactively manage the situation, rather than find myself jossing it one day in the gym on the cross trainer. Same applies with an enlarged prostate which might be benign growth that can be tackled early before it becomes something nasty (Although a radical prostitectomy doesn't sound much fun). Is it better to know, or not to know? Personal choice I suppose, but for me forewarned is forearmed, hence the question.

You probably don't want to be forearmed - especially in the prostate area...

Ha Ha Ha!

[Bijou Bob]

Last time I had it checked, it felt like that's what he was using.....

[Montreal Wanderer]

I'm not sure what a scan of the colon is. If you are over fifty have a colonoscopy.

[Hoboh]

I'm not sure what a scan of the colon is. If you are over fifty have a colonoscopy.

Ouch!

Blood tests can indicate susceptibility of cancer.

Late diagnoses of cancer is not always quickly terminal, treatments are harsh but can work.

It is absolutely correct that simple signs can be misunderstood by GP's but if there is any doubt from previous family experience or you are over 50, hopefully they will act.

Life is too short to get paranoid, enjoy it.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I'm not sure what a scan of the colon is. If you are over fifty have a colonoscopy.

Ouch!

Blood tests can indicate susceptibility of cancer.

Late diagnoses of cancer is not always quickly terminal, treatments are harsh but can work.

It is absolutely correct that simple signs can be misunderstood by GP's but if there is any doubt from previous family experience or you are over 50, hopefully they will act.

Life is too short to get paranoid, enjoy it.

My colonoscopy (I was finally pressured into having my first at 70 - the notion had not appealed at all) was not painful. It was all rather interesting watching it on the tv. It is true the prior cleaning out process is not very pleasant but really no worse than accidentally drinking the local water in Costa Rica. If BB is worried, just have one.