2mos ago I noticed a change in my bowels and abdominal tenderness on my right side and some anal soreness. I had a vist w/ my GYN and I had a CT scan and everything came back fine. Not satisfied, I schedule a appointment w/ my family doctor and he ordered a CT scan of my intestines as well as blood work. Everything was fine w/ those test but he wants me to see a GI doctor. Since then I have taken @ least 2 ez detect colon test and everything seems ok. I reliable is the home test?

If the test that you have taken at home is the occult fecal blood test, it is not very reliable because polyps can bleed intermittently and you might be doing the test on days when there happened to be no bleeding. Are you anemic - that can be an indicator of blood loss somewhere in the GI system. A CAT scan will not detect polyps or early colon cancers. It will show a thickening in the lining of the colon, but that usually doesn't occur until a cancer has advanced in size. The gold standard is a colonoscopy. If you have not had one yet, insist that the GI doctor send you for one. A sigmoidoscopy only examines the lower portion of the colon, but the colonoscopy lets the MD examine from the rectum to the ileocecal valve (end of colon, start of small intestine). Don't let the MD attribute it to internal hemorrhoids without doing a colonoscopy first.

Leslietoo

:) Thanks for the advice !!!