I had testicular cancer in 2007. My right one swelled up almost to the size of a plum. At the time, I had a bad temper. My life was horrible for other reasons. Anyway, I didn't connect my nausea to my anger and my testicle. I went over a year this way and probably would have died had I not gotten fired because of this. Eventually I did go to the ER and by that time I was stage 4. I had to have surgery, I had to go through 4, 3, week courses of BEP. I was on an out patient basis and had to go in 6 days a week. I got bleo one day, then the others the other day. My last treatment was New Year's Eve 2007. They gave me a big bottle of Vicodin and I never took it because I didn't think I was in pain. I thought I was nauseous until the last month when I had a headache, so I took a Vicodin and my nausea went away!! Turned out it was my lymph nodes were giving me pain. My cancer had spread everywhere, including into my left lung. I wanted to tell my story, so maybe someone won't do what I did and have the cure for the nausea that is really pain and so you don't gain 60 pounds in 4 months trying to stop the pain. These disease has an over 95% survivability rate. So chances are if you just found out you have Testicular cancer, you are going to survive. With that, I want to point you in the direction of testicular cancer jokes. There are many and there are very funny ones. My favorite has always been, What's good about testicular cancer? You can only get it twice.
Hey man, hope you’re all good. I’ve been diagnosed with TC and have surgery tomorrow. Just wondering, what size tumour did you find? If you can remember
I had a sharp pain in my right testicle. Not all the time, but sometimes. At a certain point the pains were so bad I couldn't stand up straight when they hit me. Also I could feel a small lump. So those combined made me go see my doctor!
@@jedu_youtube Hi. I hope you’re keeping well! Can I ask, how often was the pain at first and how long did it last each time? Also did you get the pain before you noticed the lump? Thanks, appreciate you sharing your story!
@@CiaranDoyler Hard to say precisely. There was definitely pain and it was pretty bad. It would come in waves and be very bad for a couple seconds/minutes and than slowly fade away. I didn't feel for a lump myself (probably should have in hindsight) but I am sure it was already there when the pain was there.
@@jedu_youtube sir where was uR lump spot.?center of testicle.?i have a lump on my bottom epididymis leftesticle i hope mine is not a cancer. Did u get any risk factor sir .? Hoping for response..
What type of chemo did you have? I was four years clean after one large dose of carboplatin until January of this year. Now I have to decide between 3x of BEP or 4x of EP.
Today is my last bleomycin day of cycle 1; day 15. The first heavy week was terrible for me due to the steroids which really disrupted my sleep. Now I have terrible stomach problems which I can’t seem to find any relief for. I switched to soft foods like boiled and mashed root vegetables, apple sauce, bananas, peanut butter, soup/broth. I’ve lost 11 pounds as of now. I had a pizza actually the other day. It was so damn good lmao. Oh well. The cure rate is super high which I’m grateful for so just have to stick it out.
How are you now ? Isn't it imbarrassing at first it was for me. Can I ask you do you loose your hair down there also ? I'm curious what happens. I'm just starting chemo
Hey man. Still going strong. Feels like ages ago at this point. I lost all hair at a certain point; brows, beard, head, everything. I did think losing my hair was a little embarrassing at first, but you'll get used to it pretty fast. And getting better is way more important than having some hair anyway, it will grow back after :) Good luck!
@@mr-yy8sd I have an unused Instagram account (for future use) but you can send me a DM there and I'll gladly answer some questions. instagram.com/geronimo100x/
I'm not an expert on the stage system because I think it's pretty advanced and has a lot of sub-stages. But since my cancer spread to different organs (in my case my lung) it was classified as stage III. But I think it heavily depends on tumor-size and the kind of tumor etc.
@@jedu_youtube hello brother, my brother is suffering with testicular cancer stage 3 it has spared to the lymph nodes , chemotherapy is going on 3rd cycle of chemotherapy completed ... after how many times it's purely cured???? Is this curable disease brother please reply???
@@Sujitkumar-ff1oy Hey, sorry I didn't see your message earlier. Testicular cancer is pretty curable nowadays. I'm no doctor but I think even if the BEP chemo doesn't catch on they can still try another sort of chemo. I think it depends per person how fast it catches on. By or after the 3rd cycle blood markers should be slowly going down. If there is still a small tumor left they might remove it with surgery. All the best to your brother!
aww man that's terrible. i really hope you're doing ok. thanks for doing the video you are helping others.
Thanks man! Yes I am doing good at this point. Almost 1 year out of chemo at this point!
@@jedu_youtube brilliant! stay safe!
I had testicular cancer in 2007. My right one swelled up almost to the size of a plum. At the time, I had a bad temper. My life was horrible for other reasons. Anyway, I didn't connect my nausea to my anger and my testicle. I went over a year this way and probably would have died had I not gotten fired because of this. Eventually I did go to the ER and by that time I was stage 4. I had to have surgery, I had to go through 4, 3, week courses of BEP. I was on an out patient basis and had to go in 6 days a week. I got bleo one day, then the others the other day. My last treatment was New Year's Eve 2007. They gave me a big bottle of Vicodin and I never took it because I didn't think I was in pain. I thought I was nauseous until the last month when I had a headache, so I took a Vicodin and my nausea went away!! Turned out it was my lymph nodes were giving me pain. My cancer had spread everywhere, including into my left lung. I wanted to tell my story, so maybe someone won't do what I did and have the cure for the nausea that is really pain and so you don't gain 60 pounds in 4 months trying to stop the pain.
These disease has an over 95% survivability rate. So chances are if you just found out you have Testicular cancer, you are going to survive. With that, I want to point you in the direction of testicular cancer jokes. There are many and there are very funny ones. My favorite has always been, What's good about testicular cancer? You can only get it twice.
Hey man, hope you’re all good. I’ve been diagnosed with TC and have surgery tomorrow. Just wondering, what size tumour did you find? If you can remember
Hey! Sorry I didn't reply earlier. Hope the surgery went OK! I don't remember the size of my tumour anymore, sorry.
Hi buddy i have my left testicular bigger and harder than right one but feel no pain... What do you think ?
What were your symptoms? Like what led you to go get checked out?
Appreciate your story!
I had a sharp pain in my right testicle. Not all the time, but sometimes. At a certain point the pains were so bad I couldn't stand up straight when they hit me. Also I could feel a small lump. So those combined made me go see my doctor!
@@jedu_youtube Hi. I hope you’re keeping well! Can I ask, how often was the pain at first and how long did it last each time? Also did you get the pain before you noticed the lump?
Thanks, appreciate you sharing your story!
@@CiaranDoyler Hard to say precisely. There was definitely pain and it was pretty bad. It would come in waves and be very bad for a couple seconds/minutes and than slowly fade away. I didn't feel for a lump myself (probably should have in hindsight) but I am sure it was already there when the pain was there.
@@jedu_youtube sir where was uR lump spot.?center of testicle.?i have a lump on my bottom epididymis leftesticle i hope mine is not a cancer.
Did u get any risk factor sir .?
Hoping for response..
@@noman2008 Hey man, if you have any lumps I would just go see a doctor. Doesn't have to be cancer, but definitely go make an appointment :)
im going in op tomorrow to see if bump is cancer my blood is good but the bump showed up on the scan i did so im hoping it not cancer
Good luck! Blood is a pretty good indicator so i'm hoping for you it's nothing!
@wild. How are you now?
What type of chemo did you have? I was four years clean after one large dose of carboplatin until January of this year. Now I have to decide between 3x of BEP or 4x of EP.
Sorry to hear man. I had 3x BEP. Good luck!
What is tha cause of testicular cancer .?Did u get any riskfactors of TC .?
Today is my last bleomycin day of cycle 1; day 15. The first heavy week was terrible for me due to the steroids which really disrupted my sleep. Now I have terrible stomach problems which I can’t seem to find any relief for. I switched to soft foods like boiled and mashed root vegetables, apple sauce, bananas, peanut butter, soup/broth. I’ve lost 11 pounds as of now. I had a pizza actually the other day. It was so damn good lmao. Oh well. The cure rate is super high which I’m grateful for so just have to stick it out.
How are you now ? Isn't it imbarrassing at first it was for me. Can I ask you do you loose your hair down there also ? I'm curious what happens. I'm just starting chemo
Hey man. Still going strong. Feels like ages ago at this point. I lost all hair at a certain point; brows, beard, head, everything. I did think losing my hair was a little embarrassing at first, but you'll get used to it pretty fast. And getting better is way more important than having some hair anyway, it will grow back after :)
Good luck!
@@jedu_youtube could we talk would you be comfortable with that maybe via what's app?
@@mr-yy8sd I have an unused Instagram account (for future use) but you can send me a DM there and I'll gladly answer some questions.
instagram.com/geronimo100x/
@@jedu_youtube I don't have that we can Skype If you have that
@@mr-yy8sd Instagram (or here on CZcams) are really the only places where I can answer some of your questions!
What stage did you have?
I'm not an expert on the stage system because I think it's pretty advanced and has a lot of sub-stages. But since my cancer spread to different organs (in my case my lung) it was classified as stage III.
But I think it heavily depends on tumor-size and the kind of tumor etc.
@@jedu_youtube hello brother, my brother is suffering with testicular cancer stage 3 it has spared to the lymph nodes , chemotherapy is going on 3rd cycle of chemotherapy completed ... after how many times it's purely cured???? Is this curable disease brother please reply???
@@jedu_youtube BEP chemotherapy is going on 1cycle =5 days
@@Sujitkumar-ff1oy Hey, sorry I didn't see your message earlier. Testicular cancer is pretty curable nowadays. I'm no doctor but I think even if the BEP chemo doesn't catch on they can still try another sort of chemo.
I think it depends per person how fast it catches on. By or after the 3rd cycle blood markers should be slowly going down.
If there is still a small tumor left they might remove it with surgery.
All the best to your brother!