Extreme testicle worries

[ShaunRyder]

Hi. So I thought I would come here as didnÂ’t know where else to turn.

For the past month maybe longer I have had been worried about testicles, from firmness, lumps, everything. I went for a testicular exam last Thursday and he said all was fine. But a few days later the fear came back and I started to question him. I started poking and prodding again, firstly it was about the firmness, convinced it was rock hard. But then I came across a small little lump, massive panic attack. It was like at the top, i donÂ’t think anything is actually on the testicle itself because I only feel certain times the panicky I got the more and more I dug in deep and it felt deep but I donÂ’t know?

When I done the usual roll I donÂ’t feel anything which is a good sign, itÂ’s when I start poking and prodding with the other hand, even then I donÂ’t always find it.

ChatGPT said itÂ’s me irritating stuff such as veins, cords and the epididymis and it said when I irritate it and find it the more I roll it feels like itÂ’s a different place.

Last night and this morning I had a check and couldnÂ’t find it but I kept on checking this morning and then briefly felt it, anxiety hit the roof, full on panic attacks. I put another appointment in for the doctors but they refused it, they said they saw me 7 days ago for the same thing and nothing was wrong!? This has made my anxiety even worse.


I donÂ’t know what to do, I am having panic attacks on and off all day, can barely eat, not going to work 😞

[Pain]

It should be a fairly well-known thing that the more a bloke pokes and prods around with his knobbly conkers, the knobblier they’ll feel to him, and they’re likely to become bruised and sore in the process. You’ve been told by by whoever gave you your testicular examination (presumably someone qualified?) that your conkers are fine, so why not believe it?

... I put another appointment in for the doctors but they refused it, they said they saw me 7 days ago for the same thing and nothing was wrong!?...

How many times would you have to be told they’re fine before you do believe it’s true?

[ShaunRyder]

It should be a fairly well-known thing that the more a bloke pokes and prods around with his knobbly conkers, the knobblier they’ll feel to him, and they’re likely to become bruised and sore in the process. You’ve been told by by whoever gave you your testicular examination (presumably someone qualified?) that your conkers are fine, so why not believe it?


How many times would you have to be told they’re fine before you do believe it’s true?

Yes it was a doctor but things could change or he missed it?

Well I’ve had two already, one back in August and one 7 days ago.

I don’t feel anything on a gentle roll but I am pushing inside because I read the tumour is inside the testicle? So I don’t see how a gentle roll around is going to find something inside?

[ShaunRyder]

I understand we are told a gentle roll is enough and you would feel a mass etc, but can they hide? I am digging and digging, I come across veins etc and then sometimes it feels a lump, sometimes at the top then the middle but then I can’t find it again

[ShaunRyder]

So this is how I check and after ask in chatgpt it says it starts right then it’s wrong?

I will always start by rolling feeling sides and front with fingers and thumb, I never find anything doing this and it’s smooth. Then I will grab my penis and top of the scrotum and pull up so the testicles and up high towards the body so it’s all tight if you get what I want mean, I will then use one finger of other hand and push inside from different angles, rolling and placing the testicle different angles if possible and pressing finger into it and this is when I will come across what I feel is a lump? Not always but after a while I come across something?

[nomorepanic]

I think you are just getting obsessed with it. Please leave it alone as you will make things worse.

[NoraB]

It should be a fairly well-known thing that the more a bloke pokes and prods around with his knobbly conkers

I'm SO nicking this!

I usually refer to em as nut cutlets, but I like your knobbly conkers more.