Do you REALLY check yourself...?

RachaelVO

Bit of a strange thread title I know, but what I'm really trying to do, is to remind everyone to check themselves for lumps and bumps.

I have two very good friends battling bloody, bastard cancer. One has cervical cancer and the other has bowel cancer. The two ladies in question have just amazed me with how blazingly positive they've been. Even in their darkest hours they've kept their fighting spirit. I have to admit I've probably had more tears then they've had!

So AHers are you checking (tick as applies to your gender)

Boobs
Balls
Bottom
Skin
Poo (just in case you see blood or anything)

If you're not, I'm gonna almost get on my knees (keep it clean) and beg ya to. Far too many people are dying of that fecking, shit, wanker, bastard, mother fucking disease. It's hard to beat once it's set in, and in a lot of cases early detection will save your flipping life!

So come on boardsies, are ya checking your bits regularly?

bitemybanger

It's wiered how "checking yourself" always leads to a w**k:D

Born to Die

I check my balls daily and my breasts weekly.

RachaelVO

bitemybanger wrote: »

It's wiered how "checking yourself" always leads to a w**k:D

check yourself and wank away :pac:

Dravokivich

Everytime I take a piss. Might as well, while i'm down there like.

Superbus

Check yourself... before you WRECK yourself.

bitemybanger

RachaelVO wrote: »

check yourself and wank away :pac:

Dirty fecker, I ment a walk:p

44leto

Phew I check myself 4 or 5 times a day, everything is in working order.

Luap

For my sperm count.

Immaculate Pasta

Born to Die wrote: »

I check my balls daily and my breasts weekly.

I've never spoken to a ladyboy before :cool:

Born to Die

In the town I am from there are currently 43 people with cancer, it is not that big a place. Seriously it is worth checking for changes in your body that may be the first signs of cancer. I know of so many families that have been touched by it.

Captain_Generic

I'm always checking my poo. Checking, throwing, its all the same

RachaelVO

bitemybanger wrote: »

Dirty fecker, I ment a walk:p

yeah ya did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Big Red Button

I had a bit of a health scare lately, and it made me regret not getting a free smear test done when I got the letter in the post 18 months ago, when I turned 25.

I finally got the test done when I got sick a few weeks ago, but am still waiting for the results. It's one of those tiny little things that costs you nothing, doesn't hurt, and takes five minutes ... but it's great to have the peace of mind of knowing that the results are normal.

Would've saved me a bit of stress anyways, if I'd gotten it done when I should, and I wouldn't be waiting for results now, after having had some dodgy symptoms!!

So I'd say that any ladies entitled to a free smear - get it done, as soon as possible. Any clinic should do it for free once you turn 25, you don't even need the letter, just your PPS number.

TeddyTedson

Don't really go checking regularly but I have checked on occasion.

I overheard a conversation down the pub not so long ago between two middle aged women. One was telling the other while having a smoke outside that she had found a lump on her neck (I think it was her neck anyway) about a year ago and she hadn't bothered to get it checked.
The other woman was telling her how she found her lump and got it taken off but it wasn't cancerous but was encouraging her friend to get hers checked but she had no intention of doing so. The crazy thing is that this could end up killing her and all she has to do is get it check the sooner the better. It really doesn't make sense.

People over 40 should probably be getting checked by their doctor every few years regardless though. I think 95% of all cancers are treatable if caught early enough. I'm not definite on those facts but I think I've heard that.

Anyways I'm sure a lot of people here (probably a lot more than me) know how debilitating cancer is and to see someone suffering in their last weeks of terminal cancer is probably one of the hardest things people will ever face in their lives.
In my experience I remember someone with terminal cancers last weeks to be like a dramatic painful death scene in a film where the person is saying their last goodbyes before shortly passing away. However with cancer it can be weeks, and even months.

One in three of us will be getting cancer at some stage in our lives though so it's best to never have any lingering doubts.

Gran Hermano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2K4eIqxd4

superstoner90

chatterpillar wrote: »

I had a bit of a health scare lately, and it made me regret not getting a free smear test done when I got the letter in the post 18 months ago, when I turned 25.

I finally got the test done when I got sick a few weeks ago, but am still waiting for the results. It's one of those tiny little things that costs you nothing, doesn't hurt, and takes five minutes ... but it's great to have the peace of mind of knowing that the results are normal.

Would've saved me a bit of stress anyways, if I'd gotten it done when I should, and I wouldn't be waiting for results now, after having had some dodgy symptoms!!

So I'd say that any ladies entitled to a free smear - get it done, as soon as possible. Any clinic should do it for free once you turn 25, you don't even need the letter, just your PPS number.

Hope its good news.

El Weirdo

Word.

Snowie

I recently well about 6 weeks ago found something on my balls i thought it wasn't right so i went to the doctor and she checked me over.

I felt a little uncomfortable getting my balls out with no chance of getting a bj to a hj, but she checked them out and it was fine being honest i felt more uncomfortable over the fact that I was very neat and groomed and that she wasn't greated bye a jungle of man hair with a few old corn flakes :pac:


but ye i think as a man you gotta man the fvck up get checked its not that bad....

bye the way everything was 400% right with me :cool:

Leeg17

I do, not as often as I should but I do.

Went to the doc a few weeks ago when I was worried about something on my balls, turned out it was nothing thankfully.

candy-gal1

i always try and check myself whenever i get a chance, just in case you know, checking boobs and moles/freckles is easy enough, due to having my second smear come next month so fingers crossed that all is fine there too.

Chain_reaction

Remember to keep an eye on your life style to!

That's just in the cases where it not genetically hard wired into someone though, which makes the blasted thing even more of a curse!

stupidusername

There's very insufficient education in this country about all the different types of cancer you can get, and what the symptoms are.

I wear sun screen every day that it's remotely warm, and some times in the winter, but I know that almost nobody I know would be bothered about putting any on, and it's a baffling thing. people want to get tanned, and even if they don't, they're just not seeing the dangers that the sun can bring.

I'll admit I don't really know what I'm looking for when it comes to my breasts, but yeah I feel around every so often. I'd like to think I'd know if something was different, but I may not. I am trying to sort out a time I can go for a smear now too. I keep an eye on my moles, but there was one I was wondering about (it was one of the 'changes' you're meant to be wary of) and said it to my doctor ages ago, and he brushed it off, so I really don't know what to worry about.

Shryke

Born to Die wrote: »

In the town I am from there are currently 43 people with cancer, it is not that big a place. Seriously it is worth checking for changes in your body that may be the first signs of cancer. I know of so many families that have been touched by it.

I'd move out of that town or at least stop drinking the water.
It feels a bit silly checking my balls but while I'm interfering with myself I might as well make sure I don't have anything.

howsyourtusk

Leeg17 wrote: »

Went to the doc a few weeks ago when I was worried about something on my balls, turned out it was nothing thankfully.

Was it your hands? :pac:

CreepingDeath

RachaelVO wrote: »

One has cervical cancer and the other has bowel cancer.

In fairness you need fairly long fingers to check yourself for these.

woodoo

I'm an extreme hypochondriac. I'm aware of every lumb, bump, pain or sensation.

clappyhappy

Both my parents died from cancer,mum was 44 dad 64, 10 years between their death. Both had bowel cancer mum also got secondaries in the liver and lungs. 2 of dads sisters had breast cancer and ended up getting them removed. To say that my siblings and myself are concerned is an understatement,we have colonoscopies every 3 years, I have an annual mammogram and just keep very observant. Im not living in fear of it daily, I enjoy a drink eat fairly healthly and try to get a bit of exercise in a couple times a week. If I am to get it I hope I can catch it in time and I will fight it all the way, I saw the way it ate away at my parents and I won't let it do that to me. I hope something can be found to cure it soon for everyone. Be observant catch it before it catches you.

amacachi

Of course one checks oneself, I've been led to believe one would wreck oneself otherwise.

earpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHlvoUGYiyQ

RichieC

lol.. wrong thread...

lividduck

I just let my OH do the checking, with her tounge!:D
(except the poo obviously)

My name is URL

I don't. I'm afraid I might find something. It's not easy anyway.. looking for a lump in a bag of lumps

RichieC

I get a fit of bravery every so often and run the old fingeroony over the bollocked area. Then feel safe for another few months until I run into a thread like this.. :mad:

ballbag cancer is the only cancer that truly puts the ****s through me. It's a funny thing.

Shryke

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

My left one is bigger than my right. I think its because i keep sitting on myself but now its about the size of an egg. Bloody awkward.

Jesus get that looked at!
I didn't think people would find it difficult to fondle themselves. To me it seems a bit like having a phobia of crossing the road, you might get hit by a car.

RachaelVO

My name is URL wrote: »

I don't. I'm afraid I might find something. It's not easy anyway.. looking for a lump in a bag of lumps

Do it in the shower with soapy hands, but just fecking well do it! Ya just never know, man up b1tch!

UglyBolloxFace

Any ladies willing to check mah baws for me?

LH Pathe

I shave my balls n check em nightly. they say three's a crowd

byhookorbycrook

I have two auto-immune diseases, one quite rare. I also take a treatment for one that may kill me (about 1,000 to 1 chance each time)I am prodded ,poked at and have all kinds of samples taken on a regular basis, but still do all my checks regularly.

okiss

I agree with everyone here that you should be looking out of any changes in your body. If you want information on how to check for cancer the Irish Cancer Society website address is www.cancer.ie
If you have any questions you can contact the Irish Cancer Society on 1800 200 700 weekdays 9 am to 5pm Tuesdays till 9pm or email them on helpline@irishcancer.ie.
If you look up cancer.ie you can find out the work the Cancer Society are currently doing for the Irish population where One Irish person in Three will get Cancer. Could I ask all board.ie members to contribute to the fund raising of the Irish Cancer Society as they have helped a number of people I know.

Thanks for reading this and for your support of the Irish Cancer Society.

df1985

i checked myself after reading this thread!

RachaelVO

okiss wrote: »

I agree with everyone here that you should be looking out of any changes in your body. If you want information on how to check for cancer the Irish Cancer Society website address is www.cancer.ie
If you have any questions you can contact the Irish Cancer Society on 1800 200 700 weekdays 9 am to 5pm Tuesdays till 9pm or email them on helpline@irishcancer.ie.
If you look up cancer.ie you can find out the work the Cancer Society are currently doing for the Irish population where One Irish person in Three will get Cancer. Could I ask all board.ie members to contribute to the fund raising of the Irish Cancer Society as they have helped a number of people I know.

Thanks for reading this and for your support of the Irish Cancer Society.

The daffodil Nurses are the finest bunch of nurses ever. Had experiences with them when both my grandparents were dying and they couldn't have been nicer or more supportive. I always give during the daffodil campaign!

RachaelVO

df1985 wrote: »

i checked myself after reading this thread!

GOOD! That was one of the reasons I started it, and I bet you weren't the only one!

Larianne

I check my breasts every month when its that time of the month.

In need of a smear. Will see if my college health service does them tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder!

Snowie

RachaelVO wrote: »

Do it in the shower with soapy hands, but just fecking well do it! Ya just never know, man up b1tch!

is that how he girls do it ?

DeVore

Got a full blood work-up done last month and a sexual health check done 4 months ago. Good aul rummage every now and then too.

Sure you'd be mad not to?

Teyla Emmagan

Thought I had a lump in my vadge once. Turned out to be my cervix. I was only 14, in my defence.

Probably shouldn't have been rooting around so much :cool:

Jimoslimos

RichieC wrote: »

ballbag cancer is the only cancer that truly puts the ****s through me. It's a funny thing.

It has, I believe one of the highest survival rates of any cancer. If I *had* to choose one cancer to have that would be pretty high up the list. Pancreatic cancer on the other hand - now that scares me sh1tless.

Gran Hermano wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2K4eIqxd4&feature=player_embedded

Rachel Stevens, Oh my........fap...fap...fap

ziggy23

Yep always go for the smears. It's one of those horrible things women have to do but its worth the 5 minutes of uncomfortableness to know you're ok. I've had abnormal cells and so have 5 of my friends thankfully was nothing too serious. The amount of women I know who have never had a smear test done is ridiculous:eek: You only have to look at Jade Goody to see how quickly cervical cancer can take over.

stupidusername

ziggy23 wrote: »

Yep always go for the smears. It's one of those horrible things women have to do but its worth the 5 minutes of uncomfortableness to know you're ok. I've had abnormal cells and so have 5 of my friends thankfully was nothing too serious. The amount of women I know who have never had a smear test done is ridiculous:eek: You only have to look at Jade Goody to see how quickly cervical cancer can take over.

what's uncomfortable about it?

ziggy23

stupidusername wrote: »

what's uncomfortable about it?

Em getting a speculum inserted into your vagina when you are not shall we say lubricated. It's certainly uncomfortable for me