Has Anyone Done A Bowel Screening Test

[emmie]

i have been sent a letter from NHS to say they are sending me a kit, is it easy to do, sorry if its early to talk about such matters, but i guess now is as good a time as any..

[barry1010]

Very easy. You just need to put a poo sample in the tube they send you.
I find it easiest to put toilet paper in the loo before I open my bowels, it keeps the matter easier to access.

[mallyh]

sounds horrible but i use a chinese plastic dish to collect the poo, it's much easier to complete the test ,takes about 5 mins

[bednobs]

the kit will give you all the instructions.

[emmie]

i know bednobs, but confess i don't always follow them properly.

[woofgang]

yes very easy and easier still now they only ask for one sample not three. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bowel-cancer-screening-kit-how-to-use

[postman44]

Yes I have done it you will get sent it through the post with instructions it is easy to do follow instructions I was pleased to do it. Every two years you will be tested.

[bhg481]

No problem. They've updated the kit over the past few years and made it even easier to use.

[gingejbee]

It has to be easy to do - otherwise you wouldn't have hundreds of thousands of people doing it.

[emmie]

mallyh, not nice but if it works...

[barry1010]

This video shows you exactly how to do it

[emmie]

i had two colonoscopies in the past and that was dire, so this should be fairly easy going on your replies,

[barry1010]

ttps://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer-screening/

[emmie]

i thought they used to have more than one test, like over a couple of days.

[emmie]

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer-screening/

[barry1010]

It used to be three, now it is one

[barry1010]

Be grateful you only have to take your own sample :(

[bednobs]

"i know bednobs, but confess i don't always follow them properly."
you don't say ! lol but you'll take advice from random people on the internet :)

[emmie]

thanks, its reasurring - i don't know if they are trying to tell me something but i have also got a breast cancer screening test letter.

[emmie]

why not bednobs, if they have had it done.

[emmie]

i have no one to talk over these matters with, except one brother but we haven't spoken for a couple of weeks. and its a delicate matter.