Hey, I'm a 19 year old male and I've been stressing out over various symptoms lately in the past week or two, mainly in my lower back, stomach and scrotum area.
First symptom I had was a weird dull ache on the right side of lower back. I noticed it every time I stood up and when I breath deep while laying down. It seemed to radiate towards my left shoulder. A day or so late I got a sharp pain in a very specific area on my scrotum. The pain was sort of on the left of my penile shaft. The pain felt sort of pulsating and as I said, sharp.
I had this sharp pain again a few days later (yesterday, actually) and it stayed around for a bit longer than it did on the first time around. I also had very fluid diarrhea that night, but it might have been due to me drinking a lot of water during the day (around 4 liters). Today I got sharp pain in my right testicle which radiated to the right side of my lower abdomen (just above the adonis belt). The pain came and went, and only lasted a second but it still felt really discomforting. I've also had a sort of growl in my stomach, despite not feeling actual hunger.
Maybe it's just me becoming overly conscious of my body due to the aches, but I feel like something's not right in my lower abdomen/scrotal area. Of course all these symptoms just scream cancer to me, and googling has convinced me further that it's cancer (first thought it was spinal cancer, then kidney, then pancreatic, now I think it's prostate cancer).
I reckon I might go see a doctor, but I doubt they'll really take me seriously with my current symptoms. Anyone know what may cause these symptoms and whether I should be worried (at this point at least).
---------- Post added 05-01-15 at 00:21 ---------- Previous post was 04-01-15 at 22:38 ----------
Update: An hour after I wrote this, the pain in my lower abdomen persists. Wondering if this could be appendicitis? When should I start to get worried?
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