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