DU Men! Do a self exam regularly

[pagerbear]

Seriously. A friend lost one of his testes to testicular cancer a couple of years ago. He's very healthy now, thank God. I'm sure others can Google the proper technique faster than I can. I'll just leave it at this.

Edit: removed reference to boys to avoid confusion

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

1. what do you check for?

[Catherine Vincent]

2. lumps, I think....

[pagerbear]

3. I'll take care of you, Chavez

But others should check for lumps or irregularities.

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. I handle my genitals with astonishing regularity.

[pagerbear]

6. Actually, my friend has been asked to examine lots of other guys

But he got those request before, too. He's a hottie!

[DS1]

5. I had all the symptoms once,

it turned out to be a pinched nerve, weird, yet still painful. :scared:

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Ha! You had a owie ball!

:D

[DS1]

11. well, yeah, but

the other one would sing me Italian love songs till I slept :loveya:

[SaveElmer]

8. Good idea!!!

I found a lump there too...turned out to be a cyst...which is usually what they are.

Had Lance Armstrong done this he may not have had to go through the agony he did...it is highly curable!

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. Highly curable yes

but since it usually occurs in men in their 20's, it can grow like wildfire since they still have all their hormones going full steam ahead. Men should begin giving themselves monthly "exams" just like women should examine their breasts monthly. Unlike breast cancer risk being higher as women age, testicular cancer happens more often in young men.

[ismnotwasm]

9. try this

edit oops, can't get the link to work.

[cosmicaug]

10. One of his boys.

pagerbear wrote:

Seriously. A friend lost one of his boys to testicular cancer a couple of years ago. He's very healthy now, thank God. I'm sure others can Google the proper technique faster than I can. I'll just leave it at this.

I wish you hadn't refered to the guy's afflicted testicle as "one of his boys". Reading that literally was very confusing. I interpreted it as meaning that he had had one of his male children die from testicular cancer but that the son is healthy now (WTF, he's dead but healthy?).

[pagerbear]

14. Gotcha. Fixed.

[Skittles]

12. DO IT OR I WILL KICK YOUR ASS

or, if you prefer, I'll kick your ass IF YOU DO IT.

[plcdude]

13. no worries

I have always felt it was important almost every day and sometimes more than once a day. Did you kick or lick?

[ogradda]

19. and you're at it again over here! aaahhhhhhhh.....

[Infomaniac]

15. Check my own husband regularly.

I learned how here http://tcrc.acor.org/tcexam.html and here http://www.cancernetwork.com/PatientGuides/Testes_Examination.htm

[terrya]

17. Thank you, pagerbear.

I need to do this regularly. Seriously.

[pagerbear]

20. I'm here for ya

[flamingyouth]

18. This is excellent advice

I've had several friends who've had testicular cancer, and all of them were in their twenties, an age when you aren't usually worried about such things.

Good post, and thanks for this, pagerbear.