I have symptoms...

Hi all, I'm 25 and over the past year I've noticed some new symptoms and concerned it may be testicular cancer or something similar.

It started off with needing to pee a bit more often, especially at night.  However, more recently its gotten to the point where I can pee, go back to bed and 20 minutes later feel a little irriated and so go to pee again but there is hardly anything to pee, just temporarily relief of irriation so I can go back and try to sleep. I have to do this at least a couple times when I'm tired or probably 20-30 times right into 4am when I'm not tired.

Initially, I thought this is just psychological, part of just a sleeping problem where mentally I have convinced myself I need to empty the tank immediately before going into sleep.

But, thinking about it, I have noticed other things too. I feel like one of my testicles has grown in size, but I'm not sure as its hard to tell. Hence why I brushed it off as nothing when I thought this several months ago.

But I have also noticed some pain there in the past thats come and gone away quite quickly, so again not thought much about it.

However, this brings me to today.  All day I've had a dull pain and trying to take a look, it seems to me there is a significant difference in size in one of them, but again I'm unsure.

Long story short...

I don't know whether I should see my GP or not, how long these appointments take, what the process is during corona, etc, or even if my guess is right or not.  Its all a bit embarrassing, surprising, unbelievable, etc and I don't want to alarm anyone I know either.

  • Please don't feel embarrassed. The doctors have seen everything and they'll be glad you went to see them. I had a pain in my breast and I could feel a lump and like you, I put it off. It turned out to be a cyst. But that relief, was immense and not once, did the GP or the specialist make me feel like I was wasting their time. Please go and let us know how you get on.