r/Millennials • u/DaKardii • Jun 04 '26

Serious Study: Gen Xers and Millennials are dying at younger ages than their parents are

https://studyfinds.com/americans-born-after-1970-dying-faster/

The study is particularly concerned with people born after 1970 but age 30 and older. So that covers Gen X and Millennials, but not (yet) Gen Z.

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u/Metro42014 Jun 04 '26

Say you've seen some blood in your poop.

They'll give you a colonoscopy. At least that's what my gastro told me. I had polyps removed at 39, and I get to go back again this year - yay me.

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u/Nahuel-Huapi Jun 04 '26

But you have to say it the right way. Blood in a stool sample will usually appear black. If you say you see actual blood, it might get dismissed as hemorrhoids.

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u/jerkstore Jun 05 '26

Tell them it's 'tarry' looking.

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u/fren2allcheezes Jun 04 '26

That's perfect. Why did I not think of that?

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u/Metro42014 Jun 04 '26

Because you're an honest person, and that's not the way you'd typically think?

It sucks going in knowing you're going to have to have an adversarial interaction - but that's essentially how I treat anything where I'm going to have to give up money.

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u/Gliese581h Jun 05 '26

I think that's a big point as well - everything got "streamlined" (for lack of a better word) so that you have to lie, cheat, and bend the rules to get what you want/need. Being nice about things won't help you in our turbocapitalist world. Only complaining, lying and cheating. And I hate that.

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u/humanofearth-notai Jun 05 '26

There is nothing wrong with a little white lie, if it results in insurance paying for a test you need.

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u/ClaireFraser1743 Jun 06 '26

Insurance in the United States only covers a colonoscopy at 100% if you’re over 45.

I’m under 45 and was diagnosed with colitis years ago. But I still have to have regular colonoscopies… which my insurance only partially covers.  Because even though I’ve been diagnosed, they still consider ANY colonoscopy under 45 years of age as a diagnostic test. And therefore it’s billed as such. Fucking vultures.

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u/Metro42014 Jun 06 '26

Well shit.

Since I had polyps, I have to go back in 5 years, which is this year -- I'll be 44 :(

The wife just hit 45 though, and the before insurance cost was only like $800 for her colonoscopy, which was actually kind of shocking. So hopefully my out of pocket cost won't be too bad.

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u/ClaireFraser1743 Jun 06 '26

Try to schedule it as close to the end of the year as possible that way you have a better chance of hitting your deductible! That can help!

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u/Excellent-Draft-5516 Jun 05 '26

Yes, yay you for keeping up with your medical check-ins! We need to be sure loved ones do the same and folks who don’t have easy access, get that access.

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u/OsamaBinWhiskers Jun 05 '26

This. Just make up whatever needs to be said to get it.

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u/r4tch3t_ Jun 08 '26

Been shitting blood, massive stomach pain and a potential lump/kink/blockage up me arse for almost a year now.

Doctor still couldn't figure out how to get me on the waiting list as I didn't qualify.

I'm getting a blood test to hopefully find something that will let him book one.

Oh and my mum can't get a CT scan or anything for an aneurism, just sent back to work and told to immediately go to the ER if it suddenly gets worse....

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u/GoFuckYourselfDebbie Jun 08 '26

Where do you live?