Help me make a video on bowel cancer

Hey guys. I have got a health awareness video on bowel cancer. Anybody have any ideas. I have to have it done by next Monday. Best idea will be made into a YouTube video and I'll post it here next week. So come on guys, help a brother out.

Dravokivich

Blasting with shíte?

MagicSean

Split screen video. On one side show a guy all nervous about getting a colonoscopy. On the other show a man going in for an operation to have his bowel removed.

Then show the first guy coming out with a little limp. At the same time show the other guy on life support.

Then ask which you would rather be.

smk89

How about a person looking on the toilet hearing a large thud and seeing a brick (literally a brick) in the bowel. Then a voice says that altered bowel habit can indicate bowel cancer.

chin_grin

Just a link to the goastse page (please do not search if you're in work!).

Cianos

MagicSean wrote: »

Split screen video. On one side show a guy all nervous about getting a colonoscopy. On the other show a man going in for an operation to have his bowel removed.

Then show the first guy coming out with a little limp. At the same time show the other guy on life support.

Then ask which you would rather be.

Colonoscopies are actually virtually painless.

maddragon

Have a guy sitting down as if he's taking a poo. Then have the whole place suddenly get splattered with sh1t. The camera pans down to show that the man has just pooed into a fan. Caption could be "Get a colonoscopy before the xxxx hits the fan"...

I Heart Internet

Cianos wrote: »

Colonoscopies are actually virtually painless.

Well....I wouldn't say that, exactly based on my experience but I imagine they are c. 0.0000000000000001% as painful as bowel cancer.

If in doubt .....check it out...no excuses!

biko

Title clarified.

CathyMoran

Well one of my best friends died from it and he was only 40, ashamed to say that I do not know the early symptoms even though a relative is at risk frrom it but if you could highlight the early symptoms and also stop making it a joking matter when it clearly is not. They have lolipop day for oesophageal cancer as one of the first signs of this type of cancer is that you can not swallow properly, something along the same lines for bowel cancer?

Cianos

CathyMoran wrote: »

Well one of my best friends died from it and he was only 40, ashamed to say that I do not know the early symptoms even though a relative is at risk frrom it but if you could highlight the early symptoms and also stop making it a joking matter when it clearly is not. They have lolipop day for oesophageal cancer as one of the first signs of this type of cancer is that you can not swallow properly, something along the same lines for bowel cancer?

The early symptoms are either constipation or diarrhea or the feeling of being unable to empty your bowels fully. If these persist for 2 weeks, go to the doctor.

The procedure for checking for abnormalities is called a colonoscopy. It only takes about 20 mins, and you're sedated for it. You're in and out of the hospital in a couple of hours. It's no big deal at all, so nothing to be nervous about, so if you suspect anything just go and get it done.

ScumLord

Bowls can't get cancer, take the rest of the evening off.

4leto

Its an awful disease, but one of those cancers which can be treated if it is caught early, so a good video showing the symptoms would save lives and save a lot of those lives from a long lingering dying.

People don't talk about their stools or problems they think they might be having because they regard it as an intimate part of them, also what are normal toilet habits. I once went to the doctor complaining of an acute pain in that area, he asked, "is your bowel habits normal" and I said "what's normal"??, I had no idea.

So start there, my pain turned out to be a side effect of Zyban the anti smoking drug, the pain went about 2 weeks after I stopped taking them. But it was a panic for a time, when it gets that far with bowel cancer its already to late.

MagicSean

Cianos wrote: »

The early symptoms are either constipation or diarrhea or the feeling of being unable to empty your bowels fully. If these persist for 2 weeks, go to the doctor.

The procedure for checking for abnormalities is called a colonoscopy. It only takes about 20 mins, and you're sedated for it. You're in and out of the hospital in a couple of hours. It's no big deal at all, so nothing to be nervous about, so if you suspect anything just go and get it done.

Friend of mine went in for one and decided to take a nap before he went in for the procedure. Woke up feeling a little impatient at how long he had to wait. Got up and went to get some fags. On his way to the shop he realised that his gown was open and he had no boxers on. Turns out they'd done the whole thing and he hadn't even noticed.

ScumLord

Cianos wrote: »

It only takes about 20 mins, and you're sedated for it.

They didn't sedate me.

Cianos

ScumLord wrote: »

They didn't sedate me.

How long ago did you get it done?

ScumLord

Cianos wrote: »

How long ago did you get it done?

About 2 years ago I think.

stovelid

You'll need help with it. Are they any friends you can colon?