Do you REALLY check yourself...?

RachaelVO · 28-03-2012 07:39PM #1

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 · 28-03-2012 07:42PM

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

Born to Die · 28-03-2012 07:43PM

I check my balls daily and my breasts weekly.

RachaelVO · 28-03-2012 07:43PM

bitemybanger wrote: »

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

check yourself and wank away :pac:

Dravokivich · 28-03-2012 07:45PM

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

Superbus · 28-03-2012 07:47PM

Check yourself... before you WRECK yourself.

bitemybanger · 28-03-2012 07:48PM

RachaelVO wrote: »

check yourself and wank away :pac:

Dirty fecker, I ment a walk:p

44leto · 28-03-2012 07:49PM

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

Luap · 28-03-2012 07:50PM

For my sperm count.

Immaculate Pasta · 28-03-2012 07:50PM

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 · 28-03-2012 07:51PM

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 · 28-03-2012 07:53PM

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

RachaelVO · 28-03-2012 07:54PM

bitemybanger wrote: »

Dirty fecker, I ment a walk:p

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

The Big Red Button · 28-03-2012 08:02PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:05PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:07PM

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

superstoner90 · 28-03-2012 08:08PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:11PM

Word.

Snowie · 28-03-2012 08:14PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:16PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:17PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:19PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:20PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:22PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:34PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:36PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:52PM

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

clappyhappy · 28-03-2012 08:54PM

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 · 28-03-2012 08:59PM

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

earpiece · 28-03-2012 08:59PM

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

RichieC · 28-03-2012 09:02PM

lol.. wrong thread...

Do you REALLY check yourself...?

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