there’s the testicle itself which should be like a firm but not hard egg-sized almost thing. the epididymis where the sperms mature and develop the ability to fertilize the egg feels more like an earthworm attached to the bag. and there can be little tiny cysts and nodules that come off of that and lumps and bumps. so it’s essential that when you do a testicular self-exam that you get used to understanding what you’re like. it’s like women with a breast self-exam you learn the lumps and bumps. the guy down there needs to know what’s normal so if there is a change they can say aha this lump wasn’t there last month. men are supposed to do testicular self-exams. they should be doing an exam ideally once a month best in the shower when they’re soapy and wet and that will tell them what their normal baseline is. but our biggest problem in urology is that men are diagnosed with testicular cancers late. they don’t find them early when it’s a little lump or bump they wait until it’s large.
what should i look for during a testicular self-exam?