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Beaver79 said:

Hi @Wibbles A FIT test will tell you doctor if you have bleeding occurring somewhere in your gastrointestinal tract. Any blood loss could be due to ulcers, bulges, polys, inflammatory bowel disease, haemorrhoids (piles). swallowed blood from bleeding gums or nosebleeds. It could also be early bowel cancer. Perhaps you should ask for another colonoscopy. You are obviously worried about this so I understand you are seeing your GP in two weeks time you should bring this up again. I had an MRI for the small bowel after I had had a colonoscopy and 4 polyps removed. Good luck I hope you soon get this resolved.

Thank you 

Wibbles

Beaver79 said:

Hi @Wibbles A FIT test will tell you doctor if you have bleeding occurring somewhere in your gastrointestinal tract. Any blood loss could be due to ulcers, bulges, polys, inflammatory bowel disease, haemorrhoids (piles). swallowed blood from bleeding gums or nosebleeds. It could also be early bowel cancer. Perhaps you should ask for another colonoscopy. You are obviously worried about this so I understand you are seeing your GP in two weeks time you should bring this up again. I had an MRI for the small bowel after I had had a colonoscopy and 4 polyps removed. Good luck I hope you soon get this resolved.

A colonoscopy only checks a short length of the bowels (the rectum) - which was clear of any polyps etc - last time that I was checked
My problem appears to be further up the 'tube'
A fit test only checks for blood at that particular moment 

Wibbles

Can ultrasound scans actually detect polyps in the bowels or not ?
The Dr who did my scan, 3 months ago told me that they are not
But I have just read a website that tells me that they can

Wibbles

letitbe said:

Wibbles said:

Beaver79 said:

Hi @Wibbles A FIT test will tell you doctor if you have bleeding occurring somewhere in your gastrointestinal tract. Any blood loss could be due to ulcers, bulges, polys, inflammatory bowel disease, haemorrhoids (piles). swallowed blood from bleeding gums or nosebleeds. It could also be early bowel cancer. Perhaps you should ask for another colonoscopy. You are obviously worried about this so I understand you are seeing your GP in two weeks time you should bring this up again. I had an MRI for the small bowel after I had had a colonoscopy and 4 polyps removed. Good luck I hope you soon get this resolved.

A colonoscopy only checks a short length of the bowels (the rectum) - which was clear of any polyps etc - last time that I was checked
My problem appears to be further up the 'tube'
A fit test only checks for blood at that particular moment 

A colonoscopy checks the whole of the large colon, from the rectum all the way up , that’s why you have sedation . I’ve had 3 colonoscopies and the last one , a small polyp was found so I need another to remove it . 

It’s a sigmoidoscopy that only check the last part of colon . 

A scan will not detect a polyp , it’s a colonoscopy that’s the gold standard for polyps/ growths . 

That's what the Dr who did my US scan said but https://www.emedicinehealth.com/do_polyps_show_on_ultrasound/article_em.htm says differently

I am confused

I have had at least 6 sigmoidoscopies in the last 12 years