I am an RN. I had a colonoscopy 2 years ago that showed pre cancerous polyps. I encourage everybody to do it. The meds they use now have made it so I don't remember anything during the test. The MD took pictures and showed them to me later. Research and find a good gastroenterologist . Have the procedure about the age of 50 .yes there are risks but if something is found early it can be taken care of.

I'm 25 years old and 2 weeks ago I had an colonoscopy done for the first time in my life. My father had colon cancer at the age of 35. Thankfully nothing was spotted in my colon. Today's show was great and very informative. I kinda wish it would have aired before I had mine done. I was totally horrified that something would go wrong and that I might possibly have cancer. I have to admit that it wasn't to bad having the actual procedure. The worse part was the 48 hours before. I was but on a clear liquid diet for 2 days with nothing to eat but Jell-O. I left like I was starving myself. The laxative that I had to take the night before the procedure was awful. In the end everything turned out fine and I get to look forward to having another one in another 5 years.

Hi Oprah:

I would like to know when this show Dr. Oz Viewer Interventions was planned. I wish I had known. My daughter is 34 years old and weighs over 250 pounds. She has never had a pap smear or a mammogram. She had 4 children and can't afford to go to the doctor for anything. I am so afraid that something could be wrong and she would not know. I as a 53 year old grandmother do not want to start raising my grandkids. Can Dr. Oz or someone else contact her and help her to get a woman's physical please?

Cancer runs in our family as does diabetes. I am really afraid. Oprah can you help us? I live in Burbank California

I look forward to seeing what Dr. Oz has to say. As for the colonoscopy, I had my 1st and last screening when I turned 50. I had a bad experience, I woke up form the sedation in the middle of the procedure. The pain was awful. I have had 4 children without anethesia and I would have gladly had another that day instead of this procedure. I also did not get any sympathy from the doctor performing the colonscopy. My screening was clean and I figure if in 50 years I did not develop colon cancer, I should be good for the next 50 years. Screen your doctors well when having this done.

As I watch today Oprah show I knew that I had to respond.

Yes, DR. OZ people do need early interventions but, they also need to know that doctor miss do not always look for everything.

In 2005 my husband thought he was having a heart attack we rushed him to he hospital after spending the week-end, there finding was he did not have a heart attack but it was acid reflex. He was send home. My husband was always worry about this as his back round he was consider high risk. The doctor knew this. Both parent died of heart condition and a younger brother has a major heart attack at the age of 45 thank God they got to him in time.

A year later my husband took me out for my 45^th birthday when we came home he said that he wasn't feeling well, I asked if he wanted to go to the hospital he said "no, it the same feeling as last time". He went to bed and never woke up.

So tell your viewer that go that extra mile and get all the answered . I took the doctor word in 2005 and my husband paid the ultimate price. I did not fight hard enough and I have to live with this.

I think that this show has been great and very informative. I don't understand why anyone who has the means (insurance) to have these tests and screenings done won't do it?

I am 35 years old and my mother died 22 years ago of various cancers. She was 42. I would give anything to have all of these screenings done for myself, however I do not have any insurance. What becomes of those of us with no insurance who are unable to be screened?

Producers; Oprah, Dr. Oz, Please have an intervention for a dexa at menopause. Please have 1 hr show regarding osteopenia/osteoporosis. Feature all the meds, feature calcium, Vit D, other vitamins and minerals, feature calcium enriched nutrition, feature weight bearing, resistance, balance exercise, feature Pilates Reformer & Pilates mat instructors that have knowledge of bone loss for safe and effective Pilates practice, feature Yoga instructors that have knowledge of bone loss for safe and effective yoga practice, feature physical therapists that have knowledge and focus on bone loss that show how important evaluation for safe effective exercise. Feature safe day to day basics that will take the pressure from the spine while attending daily activities. Feature women/men that are fracture free, physically active. Feature women/men that have had their lives altered and affected by this disease. Feature for support, discussion for men, women of all ages and teens. Please consider. Thank you.

I was surprised today when I heard Dr. Oz tell the man who had lost 70 pounds that he no longer had diabetes.

Everything that I have heard and read about type 2 diabetes tells me that diabetes does not go away. Blood glucose levels can be managed through weight loss, wise food choices, exercise, and the addition of medication if needed, but the diagnosis of diabetes remains. Without continued attention to those management tools, high glucose levels will re-emerge. The complications of diabetes can be lessen or avoided by managing blood glucose, but diabetes still remains.

Telling a person that diabetes is gone seems to be deceptive and unwise. As I understand it, the metabolic changes that caused a diagnosis of diabetes in the first place still remain, even when blood glucose is at normal levels. People with diabetes need to continue to do the things that brought the disease under control, and to watch for changes that signal that further treatment is needed.

Where do his assertions come from?

:x:x:xThank you Oprah for being you!!! You make my day everyday...

Dr. Oz.: Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the nation!! Stay fast and continue to share dispite nagative comments. OK, here is my question.:
I have brown spots all over my breast and back. Went to Dermatologist and was told they
where age spots. I have had them since the age of 28, now 49. One on my back was
frozen off. But, they continue to grow out larger. I am disabled and I do take alot of medication for RA. What do you think I should do!!!! HELP.

I also called the Doctor and made an appointment for my Husband to have a check up for
most of all of the aboved mentioned in today's topic. Thank You Very Much for the
wake up message I received...

Keep your fingers crossed for me. He does not like going to the BIG D's Office...

Sincerely,

Greatfully Informed
ME

I don't believe that it is just the fear of going to the doctor that makes people not want to go. In my case it is the lack of good health care. I have been having stomach issues for a few years now and still don't know what is going on. I have had 3 tests done on my stomach such as an mri. I was told I have acid reflex. I was given a daily medication but that has done nothing for me. Last month I was in such pain I went to a quick care, the doctor touched my stomach and told me I needed my gallbladder removed. BY TOUCHING ME, she told me I needed part of my insides taken out. She then gave me pain killers and told me if I feel worse or start vomiting later, to go to the emergency room. Well, that night I had to go to the ER, after 3 hours I was told that my liver and gallbladder is fine. That doctor also gave me some meds. and told me to go see my internal medicine doctor and to get a referral for a colonoscopy. My grandmother died of colon cancer few years ago. I then went to my internal medicine doctor, who told me that all those doctors were incorrect, that my rib cage is inflomated (he also knew that just by touching me). He then asked me why I needed a colonoscopy and when I told him, I never recieved the referral for it. Well, it is a month later and I have been out of work the last 3 days with the same pain as last month. People get tired of the run around, we want to know what is wrong and we want to be given something to cure it. And to cure it for good not for a month or week.

Dear Oprah I watched your show today with Dr. Oz Interventions... and I have to say that I am not afraid to go to the doctor it's just that I didn't have insurance... I have been feeling really bad lately aches and pains all over so I finally got insurance so that I can go to the doctor... so it's not that were afraid of going its just that people can't afford it... I had insurance a while ago was paying $415.00 a month and went to the hospital thinking I was having a heart attack... the insurance paid very little and I am making payments on the rest of it... which is why I cancelled the policy.. why pay $415.00 a month and still have to pay alot of out of pocket...

I was 28 when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, I had just had my second baby and she was visiting when she found a lump and had to fly home right away. She found out it was cancer and had a radical masectomy. That was 30 years ago. I always knew there was a posibility of me having bc too. At 40 my doctor insisted that I have a mammogram. The ins. co. said that I could have one every 2 years but she would go to bat for me until they finally relented to one a year. In 2003, I had passed the date that I was supposed to have my mammogram by 3 months and I decided I could wait another 9 months and have it done but something inside me screamed, "NO". So I made my appointment right away. They called me back the next week for more films. Well I was told by the dr. there that he was 95% sure that I had cancer. I decided to go shopping for a bit and then went home. I guess I was letting my brain process what was said. When I got home there was a message on my answer machine from the "brand new" doctor that took over my doctors practice when she retired. I was to call her as soon as I got this message, so I called. She got right on the phone and asked me if I had ever been to a surgeon and I told her yes. She said that she would get back to me soon. Within an hour she called back and told me that I had an appointment the following day with the surgeon. I went to the appointment with my husband, and he also told me that he was 95% sure that it was cancer but I needed a biopsy so they made the appointment for the next day. They did the biopsy (on a Friday) and they told me that I should go back to the surgeon on Monday to talk. Yes, it was cancer and we made the appointment for the next week to have a lumpectomy.

I had plenty of breast tissue so he had to take out about a peach size lump (the tumor was about the size of the thumb from the bottom of the nail to the tip). They also had to take out the lymph nodes under my arm because my sentenial node was missing and they wouldn't be able to see if it was in the other nodes.

I ended up having 6 months of chemo and 7 weeks of radiation. My husband never missed an appointment with me. He is disabled and doesn't work. I so appreciated having someone with me throughout the whole ordeal. I was extreemly sick with the chemo but I am the only driver so I drove.

I got so weak that I couldn't walk in the grocery store (I used electric carts) and had to sit down in the shower. But I am a 4 year survivor!!!

I am thankful for mammograms. My breast cancer was found early. With the chemo and radiation, my oncologist tells me that I have a 90% chance of living till I am 80 or older.

From what Oprah said on her show, it sounded as if Dr. Oz was going to be answering questions on line here "after the show". Doesn't look like that to me. Seems like this was just another ploy to steer people towards her site. If Dr. Oz IS reading this (unlikely - don't you think?!), here are my questions and comments: 1. All of that terrific medical care and hope is great but for so many of us, we can't afford the services of those doctors. Until we have a decent healthcare plan here in the USA at least, so what you can solve lots of problems and help people so much. The only people who are privy to all the solutions shown today are those people who are wealthy enough to have the $ to pay doctors and to buy health insurance. For the rest of us, it's a nice pipe dream. THAT is what needs an "intervention"! 2. I heard you, Dr. Oz, on "Speaking of Faith". Very intersting. Good show. 3. I am the daughter of a mother who died of breast cancer in 1978. I don't go to the gynecologist any more. I do get a mammagram 1 x/year but I don't go to the MD for any other exams. I'm not "afraid" of the exam, et al. For me, I feel like the so-called solutions to breast cancer aren't really solutions and if I do end up with breast cancer, let me go peacefully instead of burning and cutting me to death. In other words, it seems pretty hopeless if you get diagnosed with cancer - even the people who go into remission... eventually, it gets them. So for me, hey - why bother going to the MD and spending the money and going through the pain and agony just to delay the inevitable death by cancer. I know I'm not alone. So - THAT is why some of us don't bother to get the mammagram or go to the MD... that and we can't afford it. 4. If MDs in America charged less and then became willing to live a little less luxuriously as a result - i.e., maybe getting a $30k car instead of an $80k car and one house instead of several and sent their kids to public schools instead of the $80k per year private school, just maybe many of us here in the USA could afford all of the undisputedly basic services and exams and treatments you talk about regularly on the Oprah show. Oprah could scale down here life style too and provide a few more people in the USA some ability perhaps to get a mammagram or treated for their allergies or hyper-tension, et al. 5. You're on the show regularly. I'd like to see attention paid to the healthcare problem/lack of healthcare problem in America JUST as often on Oprah's show.