The Symptoms

Symptoms, which should lead you to an endoscopic examination:

  • pain in the stomach or abdominal pains
  • nightly chesty coughs
  • hoarseness
  • heartburn, acid reflux, or GERD
  • difficulties swallowing or dysphagia
  • burning behind your chest or thorax pains
  • pains after eating or postprandial pains
  • the runs or diarrhea
    • with Phlegm
    • with Blood
    • with Cramps
  • black stool or melena
  • white stool or acholich stool
  • blood on stool or anal blood flow
  • fecal occult blood or hem-detection positive
  • irregular stool
  • blockage or constipation
  • pains during stool
  • unexplained fever
  • iron deficiency or sideropenia
  • anemia
  • air during urination or pneumaturia
  • stimulated defecation without being able to expel stool or tenesmus
  • familial colon cancer
  • precautionary examination starting at 50 years of age