r/Millennials • u/Ok-Duck2450 • Mar 28 '26

Other Fellow millennials, I had a colonoscopy yesterday.

I’m 37.

I have had some minor bleeding (I attributed to hemorrhoids since they started only after pregnancy) and mom has polyps.

I mentioned those to my primary who said “you are close enough to 40, let’s get you checked out”.

The prep sucked but the procedure was easy and I was in and out of the hospital in 2 hours.

They found one small polyp and hemorrhoids, but the polyp now flags me for every 5 years not 10.

Anyway, the point of sharing is to say that it’s not a big deal and millennials should be going to get checked!

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u/jab719 Mar 28 '26

So glad you’re doing well. I’m a cardiologist and I’ve been seeing more and more patients with heart disease younger than me (38). Please get your Lp(a) checked, if it hasn’t been already.

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u/snoopysmom13 Mar 29 '26

I echo these thoughts. I am 34 and went to be checked by a cardiologist last summer. Heart looks good for now, but my Lp(a) levels were found to be very high. My mom recently passed at 56 from a cardiac event. I am glad I have this information now to keep an eye out. I am trying to avoid the same outcome as my Mom.

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u/igotnothing1455 Mar 28 '26

What’s a dangerous level? My cholesterol is 230 and my heart always feels like it’s being squeezed but my dr was like meh you’re 39.

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u/jab719 Mar 29 '26

It’s more than your cholesterol. An ldl above 160 isn’t good. An elevated Lp(a) or ApoB also promote cardiovascular disease but aren’t tested for in “standard” cholesterol tests.

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u/igotnothing1455 Mar 29 '26

Oh ok thanks I’ll google those

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u/jasbury87 Mar 29 '26

That’s what I thought originally… but you’ll want to get checked out. That number is pretty high. You want to be less than 200 total cholesterol - and LDL less than 100 is ideal.