Don't forget to visit your GP once in 5 years.

I can't understand this. You only go to your doctor when you are sick.

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Top thread, would read again

 

Ehhhh... no.

If you want to be a burden on the health system fine never go.

The whole point of going and getting a check is prevention.

Finding that whatever before it becomes a najor issue.

Its like dentists. Sure dont go then end up toothless and horrid and having some dentist pull all your teeth.

The cheapest health care is health care based on managing good health so less resources are needed at the serious end so those who then do need it have more resources for treatment or worse case palliative care.

I say cheapest but i should prob say best.

 

Not been DR for about 7 years.

 

Look for another GP then, you are a burden on the NHS's bureaucracy.

 

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you are 28? not a problem unless you need to learn how to check for lumps. when you are 30 you need to start getting a check up.

 

27 thank you... Went once when I did something to my back, only time before that was to get some injections for holiday. Can't remember before that last time I went with a medical issue.

Probably not not even registered to a GP plus I moved last year so god knows what that would have done to my records

 

Then you don't know you're only supposed to have 2 testicles. That third one is a tumor. Go see a doctor now.

 

Biscan gets his prostate checked regularly.

 

In all seriousness - 3/3 Gleason score. Cancer, but containable for now, and if it develops I have the option of having it removed. I'm in my 50's, but from 40 onwards you should get it checked. At least now I'll be monitored. I know of people who left it too late.

As to the old pawnbroker testicles; I was in my late 20's and living in Bromborough. I felt a lump, left it for a year, it didn't go away.Eventually my then fiancee persuaded me to see my GP. A week later I got a letter to go to Clatterbridge, which for a Scouser used to be the death notice - Clatterbridge was cancer central. As my fiancee pointed out though, it was my local hospital. Pubes shaved and a tasty nurse did one of those ultrascan things on my gonads. Just a cyst, 'but you must check to see if it comes back'.

Six years later I'm living in York and it comes back. Same routine, but get to see the uroligist (sp) here. This dude writes textbooks and is a leading specialist in the world, says my GP. So there I am, being examined and waiting for the babe nurse to come in with the trimmer and baby lotion and he says "Are yes, I feel it now' and.... ****ing squeezes it without any warning, and I mean squeeze as if he was a Jock trying to get the last bit of toothpaste out of the tube. I think I remembered the far off voice of a scream that turned out to be me, but I had no air left in my lungs. "That should have done it - only a cyst, but I've broken it up. Slip your jeans on and come back into the consulting room'. I think I had to shove my eyeballs back into their sockets too.

'Blah, blah, blah, keep checking, and if it comes back just go and see your GP and we'll fix it again'. Like **** - I'd grow more bollocks than Fatima Whitbread before I'd let the **** do that again.

Seriously - check yourselves out fellers. Better to be found than not. I might have a timebomb up my arse, but at least I have the option of becoming the best meth producer in Yorkshire now.

 

yep once you get a reputation as a leading light in a particular medical field you can (bit sexist but the 4 i have seen were all male)
a) dress like a parody i.e. hugely expensive pinstripe suit red braces purple bow tie (seriously 3 of my 4 normally wore bow ties !!!!
b) do whatever you like to patients which not only is forgiven but you should thank him for because as you are constantly reminded "you are ever sooo lucky to be seen by Prof / Mr Whatsisname
c) talk like you are actor in a 1950's Ealing comedy about the "gentry"

weird folk

 

He's changed his name now. He calls himself @Jürgenmeiʃter

 

What did he say?

 

Is it not safer to just have it removed now mate?

 

The testicle?

 

They think not, but when I have more MRI's and biopsies in October they'll know then. I did suggest it, but the specialist and the oncologist said I could have been at this stage for years or six months - they just don't know until they have time to extrapolate the two sets of results to judge for growth, and even if it is, it's so small an un-aggressive at this moment that they may well zap it. Not being complacent, but they are confident it's not going to suddenly erupt in three months and spread to my bladder and rectum (I hope). They way they put it is it's too extreme to take out the prostate and find that it's not necessary - yet.

Funny thing is that he warned me that it would effect my sex life if the prostate was removed. I looked utterly puzzled. I presume he means my **** life. I expect it will have to come out at some stage. I certainly don't want to take any chances.

 

We had a free health check her ein work and they don't even check for that stuff. The doctor commented the biopsy never mind the op could kill you.

My best wishes to you on it.

 

The biopsy was nimps compared to the specialist 'internal' examination. Bit of blood in your turds and sponk afterwards, but not as painful as having your teeth done at the hygienist, imo. I had that camera up my jacksy about a decade ago, and people say that's a bastard, but they gave me a drug (rohypnol (sp), I discovered later), and I can't remember a thing.

 

Ok, so it was not like a biopsy where they take a bit of the thing cos thats what this doctor was on about being dangerous.