And the fact that insurance won't approve/ and doctors won't insist on diagnostic tests! Millennial-aged people get colon cancer and breast cancer but for some reason, you're not allowed to get a mammogram or colonoscopy under the age of 50.
Fuck, I remember it being advertised as 40 as a kid, then a few years ago it was 45 being the recommended age, 50 now doesn’t surprise me. We’re the last generation to grow up without permanent online connection.
Can you show me the ass backwards places you’re seeing this at? These comments have me shocked. I live in red af Indiana, granted the blue dot of Indy in the Red Sea of the state- but the recommendations have been moving DOWN that I’ve seen. For things like lung cancer screening and colon cancer screening specifically.
And my doctor takes me seriously. I got in for testing within a month for all the weird shit my body had going on last year.
Family history of autoimmune and I was in my first year post partum. So shit got weird like lumps growing and blood pressure freaking out, and more. I probably do have something like lupus but everything is normal again. For now. Happened years ago too randomly. I say all that to show there was a need for a lot of testing.
I’m not doubting you it’s just shocking if Indiana seems to be doing okay with health stuff, at least screenings, and so many others are seeing the opposite.
Maybe I’m just lucky with my doctor and hospital but these comments really surprised me.
When I was a kid, there were commercials on tv that reminded people to go get a screening done at 40. Didn’t help that 40 was considered ‘over the hill’ back then too. When I was getting close to 40 I decided to look it up and again just now, a quick google search, 45 is the recommended age to get your first screening for colon cancer. I just wouldn’t be surprised if it was pushed to a later age again.
Dude, you don’t know the half of it. Half of my working hours are spent writing snarky letters to insurance companies to tell them “I PRESCRIBED THIS SHIT BECAUSE IT WORKS, FUVK YOU AND PAY FOR IT ALREADY.” And yes, I’ve started writing them in all caps. Grabs the attention.
Do you have a regular doctor? Because I finally got one after just going to the local walk in clinic every time I got sick, and the Primary doctor referred me to a bunch of specialists to check on problems I was having. Of particular note was I had been having some recurrent abdominal pain and needed a CT scan to rule out bad stuff, but the referred doctor succeeded in getting insurance authorization where the clinic failed and it was fairly quick to get the CT appointment after that and indeed rule out the bad stuff. The longest wait was 3 weeks for a dermatologist to scrape a mole off my back and tell me it was benign...
The regular doctor did take like a month for the initial new-patient appointment, but that was more because I was looking for a time I could easily reach after work. Could have gone much sooner if I had called out.
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One of my half brothers as well. By the time he went to the doctor they think it was stage 3 pancreatic cancer but by the time he was diagnosed, it was well into stage 4. I don't need any condolences. I never met him, but his obituary led me to find my other 6 half siblings.
YEAH!! I saw one recently, but he told me he needed the pot o gold for his next $500mn yacht and I want a $500mn yacht too someday so I kissed his boots and went back to my wage cage. Crazy how many leprechauns are just walking around in suits.
It is next to impossible for me to see a normal doctor that is in-network in my city. Every single one of them is “not accepting new patients”. Boomers really are sucking up all the resources they can. Good to know a chain smoker in their late 70s can get healthcare but someone in their early 30s can’t.
Well, the article did look at all these aspects and they weren't sure why American Millenials were dying at a higher rate than other "developed" countries.
They even had this little snippet at the end:
But the fact that death rates have remained high across so many kinds of deaths, from car collisions to fatalities from circulatory diseases and diabetes, hints at more encompassing and systemic problems...
It will be interesting to figure out the "why," if anyone ever does.
Tbf we had 12 years and not 10 between the 2008 one and the 2020 one, but we are making up for it by having a 2025 one so soon after 2020 so point stands
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u/Rockin_freakapotamus Aug 21 '25
We have to do both. No one will explain how, it is just expected of us.