Testes: is Assymetrical OK? Lump? Am I Healthy? Posted: 09-08-06 10:48am
Hello.
I was looking over my testes earlier on
when I got out of the shower and I noticed
that when I lifted my penis up, and looked
down on my scrotum from above I could see
a lump to the left hand side of the
sctrotum, a little bit higher up than the
testicle.
It appears to be its own little 'blob' or
mass within the scrotum, and does not
appear to be attached to my testicles. It
feels like soft tissue, and is nowhere
near as sensitive to the touch as my
testes are, although after squeezing it
gently it did not feel that comfortable
afterwards.... A bit of a dull ache down
there, but was not very sore or anything.
I am worried that what I have observed
might be testicular cancer.
To provide a better description of what im
looking at, when I look at my scrotum from
above, it is not symetrical. On one of the
sides there is a lump above the testicle
(a soft lump that is not attached to it).
On this side my left teste is slightly
higher than that on the right hand side.
The problem is that i'm not sure if i'm
just being paranoid, because my grandma
was just diagnosed with bowel cancer, and
the guy who runs the local coffe shop I go
to also just found out he had testicular
cancer.... And i'm thinking I might just
be me freaking out over that, and getting
paranoid about things in my body that may
have always been there. But I dont recall
ever having noticed it until the last week
or so. But then again, I don't know if i'd
ever truly looked until last week when I
found out my friend had testicular
cancer.
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Cancers Answer A1494 Posted: 09-19-06 04:03am
According to your description (“less
sensitive mass within the scrotum”,
testicular asymmetry…) there might be a
condition there, but I won’t speculate
about any diagnosis without a detailed
physical and ultrasound examination of the
area. The only way to check if both your
testicles are OK or not, is to go to an
urologist for a physical examination.
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