Certain conditions can also affect fertility, so it may make sense to get treatment before spending a full six months or a year trying to get pregnant naturally. Talk to your doctor if you have a history of: 1  Pelvic inflammatory disease. 2  Fibroids. 3  Endometriosis. 4  Polycystic ovary syndrome. 5  Sexually transmitted infection such as chlamydia or gonorrhea. 6  Blocked fallopian tubes from an infection, ectopic pregnancy, or previous surgery. 7  Previous pelvic or abdominal surgery.
You should have a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. Alternatively, you may get a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, a double-contrast barium enema every five years or a CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every five years. However, a colonoscopy will be needed if any of those results are positive.
1 If you have had colon cancer already, you need a colonoscopy every three years. 2  If you have had precancerous polyps in your colon, you need regular colonoscopies, the frequency of which is determined by the number and size of the polyps. If you are 50 years or older with no family history or personal history of polyps or cancer, then the first colonoscopy should be at 50. 2  If you are African American, your screening colonoscopy should start at age 45. 3  If that is normal, you should have one every eight years afterward.