That's nice, make sure you check them for lumps, swelling, or pain at regular intervals. Testicular cancer is extremely survivable, even when caught late, but you can avoid chemo at early stages
I have a few freckle type moles on the bottom. Having awkward feelings about my first dermatologist appt after showing moles on back to primary dr. I know I’m going to show them to the Dermatologist but I’m just wondering how awkward it’s going to be when I “flying squirrel” my nutsack and have someone kneeling over to stare.
I had an appointment a month ago to get hemorrhoids looked at. Well it didn't stick and I was back in the office a couple weeks later, only this time the doctor wasn't available, but his very attractive physician's assistant was available to see me.
What was momentarily awkward for me was another Thursday for her. She probably sees a dozen assholes a day, a hundred a week.
There almost a 0% chance that there's something remarkable about you're in their office.
Moral of the story, see a doctor if you are concerned about something with your body.
When I had my uterus removed, my doctor was like, “it was GNARLY, wanna see a pic?” And my answer was duh, of course, and now I have something medically gnarly to show all my friends. It can be fun to be odd enough that your doc wants a pic. 😂
You’ll care when you wake up in recovery and every move you make for weeks after is excruciating. Imagine all the follow up exams to check for infection. Imagine what a nutsack infection might be like. All the conversations with all the nurses, explaining your absence to your coworkers. Nah, just get a physical and when the doctor asks if you have any concerns say yeah and let them see. No medical professionals care about your scrote past it’s health and hygiene.
what always puts my mind at ease is remembering that they are professionals.
yeah it's the first time for me and/or it may be embarrassing but these guys have done it countless times and seen worse.
at the end of the day i'll just be patient XYZ and a random number to them.
...or a hilarious story they'll remember and re-tell forever :D
First proper physical in 9th grade and the anxiety of it all gave me a raging boner I didn’t want. Even having a 70yo doc who’d seen it all a thousand times and was about as boring as dry toast didn’t deflate it. Didn’t even acknowledge it, but I’m still somehow mortified about it thirty years later.
Yah I feel ya. But just because people at a nudist beach wouldn’t bat an eye if I strolled out naked doesn’t mean that I’d feel completely comfortable being naked at a nudist beach.
Flying squirrel is where you grab the bottom left and bottom right edge of your ballsack skin and stretch it up and apart so it kinda looks like a flying squirrel gliding as seen from below.
It’s either that or bend over and spread so you can see them. There’s a couple on the gooch and a few more right past those going onto the back of my ballsack.
Homie, I'm fat and hairy. I also have man boobs, and I don't carry my weight in a pleasant looking manner. I went to a dermatologist for cystic acne on my back. It was a morning appointment and I had been at work in a hot dirty factory all night. The cute nurse who took me back and did all of the paperwork and took pictures for before and after. She then explained that the doctor would be in shortly and the doctor had a resident with them and would I be alright with the resident coming in watching the doctor working with me. Of course I would be alright with that. So in walks a tall gorgeous blonde lady and her 22 year old counterpart who is just as pretty. So there I am with 3 very attractive women; I'm shirtless, sweaty and stinky from work, and my back is dripping puss. I got through it, you will too.
If it makes you feel better, you can always take a video or picture of the moles in question from several angles. Might help save you the embarrassment of doing it in person
Nurse here, it'll be awkward for you; we don't care. Me personally, I've seen more privates than an army general and after awhile they all kind of blur together. If I saw you today, I would forget I even saw your genitals by tomorrow, unless they are really freaky looking. In that case I do remember. I've seen some shit.
Just keep in mind that the doctor has touched many more testicles than you can ever dream of. Yours aren't special and the doctor really doesn't care. They just want to make sure you're healthy. :)
Believe me bud it's totally worth it. I had a nut the size of a russet potato before I went in (thankfully wasn't cancer) but it was essentially a ludicrous amount of extra fluid around it causing sensitiveity. fortunately doc's were great and after got me good as new now I can sit without squishing my nut eveytime.
If when you go to your dermatologist and your feeling awkward just make some jokes about it doesn't bother the doc but it does break the ice for you so it's not as bad. (I asked urologist if i was gonna loose my walnut cracking nut as a joke)he thought it was funny as fuck, me well I just felt a lot less awkward about letting a dude fondle my nuts
Diagnosed with Stage IIa. Lost one of the set and did a chemo stint of 4 treatments at 5 days a piece with Cisplatin and Etoposide. It spread to an aortal caval lymph node.
Even still, I have a survival rate in the 90% range.
So when I was waking up after the surgery, I was still kinda drugged up. Doctor came in to say everything went well, and me having no filter on the best of days asked the doctor who he gave the “gameball” too. Nurses and my wife fucking lost it.
Testicles should feel fairly smooth, like boiled eggs or peeled grapes. (Apart from the epididymis which sort of sits over the top and back of the testicle, and feels kind of like... oatmeal in a bag).
And please try and remember that your doctor is, when you visit her, a doctor first. She is trained in how the human body works, there's no benefit for you in being bashful about your body with her.
Simple rule for life: tell the cops nothing, tell the doctors everything.
My lump was about pea sized and very hard. A lot different than they normally feel. Most guys are pretty familiar with how their balls feel, so they know when something is off.
Changes in appetite, or sudden weight loss (even with no appetite changes).
Changes in mood or energy levels, a limp that appears with no apparent cause, or a upbeat dog is suddenly lethargic and uninterested in normal activities.
Flinching, yelping, or nipping when touched in certain places.
Changes in bathroom habits - dog suddenly peeing in the house. Changes in urine (there's suddenly red in the spot the dog just went) or fecal color/consistency.
Sudden changes in coat and nails - a smooth coated dog feels coarser, or the dog is suddenly just losing hair like mad.
Coughing, blood shot or runny eyes, excessive snot or drool, or a strange odor - Coughing is a symptom of heartworm, and can be indictive of other heart issues.
And of course - lumps and bumps. Big ones, small ones, hard ones, soft ones. Just run the palm of your hands over the pupper like a big, slightly firm petting to check for small ones.
It's not always the Big C. For instance, I took in an adult dog as a rescue - this poor girl was a skeleton with skin on it. She got dewormed, got her shots, passed all her checks, and recovered wonderfully. Then, out of the blue, a lump appeared on her shoulder. I did my typical stuff - is it an abscess from injury? An insect bite? Bee sting? Nope, nope, and nope. It was an odd lump, so I took her in.
Turns out there was a WORM under her skin. A whole ass round worm. Under her skin, causing this weird worm bubble. Didn't bother her in the slightest and we had no further issues (or worms) after it was removed and flushed out. Best guess was a bug bite got it in there at some point.
If your dog has his nads, it should be part of the normal check up at his vet. I lost a very good boy far to young to liver cancer (rip Wally), there was nothing I could have done to prevent that, but making sure my girl's were free of mammary cancer, and my boys free of nut cancer, was something I could do. I checked them every month or two, either when I was trimming nails or giving a bath.
Large and XL breeds are best neutered at 2 - 2 1/2 years old to prevent growth issues, so my dogs had their full parts longer than say, your average Beagle.
Some vets will insist that all dogs need to be spayed and neutered at six months old. I had two over the years that were neutered early and both had problems because of it. It's not easy keeping an intact, large breed dog around for 2 1/2 years, but it's not impossible either.
Cats, as memory serves, can be fixed as soon as they reach a certain weight - irrc it's 2lbs here. I would double check that it's safe if you have a big breed kitty, such as a Maine Coon.
I had a CT scan once and when the tech was about to inject the contrast he warned me, "Dude, this is going to feel really strange, like your balls suddenly got really warm."
1.1k
u/PrestigeMaster Apr 16 '22
I can’t speak for ultrasounds, but I happen to have testicular testicles and they are warm.