Don't forget chaps... check down below occasionally

Wow, private health rocks. If that was on the NHS I hate to think how long you'd be waiting. I'm kind of paranoid about getting cancer, for that reason.
 
Thanks for the comments all. I've now had the op and am back home (it's a day procedure under general anesthetic). It's quite sore and I'm walking like a cowboy for a few days.
 
Hades said:
Thanks for the comments all. I've now had the op and am back home (it's a day procedure under general anesthetic). It's quite sore and I'm walking like a cowboy for a few days.
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Don't be soft - go for a bike ride down a very bumpy track :p

Glad everything went OK and thanks for the reminder - I'll be checking mine in the shower tonight.
 
I wish you the best of luck and a speedy recovery...but...

..telling a forum full of tech geeks to check themselves 'down there' is a lot like teaching my granny to suck eggs! If god forbid a lump ever appears in my groin, i'm sure that it won't go unnoticed for very long!

Hope it all works out for you. :)
 
All the best dude Im sure you'll be ok once surgery is done and they give you some meds.

And sound advice to all of us - when youre in the shower: check down there.
 
Best of luck mate!

Just out of interest, for the op, do they remove the whole testicle or just the lump?

Good news that you caught it early.
 
Good luck with the op, and all the best

edit.
also 'to check' i take it, it is a lump on the ball itself and not on the sac.
never really checked out what are the symptoms before,
 
I hope everything is ok for you mate, its prob a good job you caught it when you did.

I haven't checked myself for months so after reading this i've had a check.

Think i squeezed to hard/ was too firm cos i feel as sick as a dog now lol :s
 
Sounds like you caught it early :)

I would like to point out that I think you are scaring people a little with the assumption that the NHS ultrasound appointment would have taken weeks! That is just not true. Anything related to cancer I have found the NHS to move very fast. I have had 2 lumps down below and both times over the last ten years I have had an ultrasound within days of seeing the doctor. One was a cyst and one was a calcium deposit.

My mother had breast cancer 8 years ago and from seeing the doctor to having the mastectomy was about 2 weeks with lots of tests in between.

My partner of ten years went to the doctor in August with a lump in her breast. That was a Monday and on Wednesday had a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy. Was told it was most likely cancer on the same day,which it was :( A few days later she had an MRI scan and the week after that she had a mastectomy. She is now on Chemo.

Nothing could have happened any quicker. When it is cases of life and death the NHS moves very quickly. All 3 cases above were in different counties too.
 
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