Good Morning All,
This sort of thing is new to me! My wife found this site during the week and has suggested I use it to enable me to get and hopefully provide support and advice from fellow TC sufferers. Unfortunately this is my second TC the first time was 13 years ago (unlucky number!!!) I was diagnosed for the second time last week after my testicle didn't feel right. It was quite hard and a little swollen but as I only have one testicle I didn't have anything to compare it against. My wife made me go to the doctors again and I was sent for an ultrasound scan. There was no sign of a mass and I was prescribed a course of antibiotics as the doctor thought it could be an infection. Six weeks later I had a follow up ultrasound scan which had not changed from the first and so I was referred to a Urologist who gave me the devastating news last week. I was on my own in the room at this stage and the nurse asked if anyone was with me, my wife joined me. I should have guessed as this is the same as what happened first time around, but I just didn't believe it could happen to me again
Upon receiving the news I could not take in what I was being told and walked out of the room refusing to accept it, telling the doctor I didn't want the operation as I felt it would destroy me as a man. I was told to go and have blood tests there and then and did this. Since then my wife has pointed me to this site which has helped me in some way to realise that there is life with no bollocks!!! Can I ask with regards to my sex life do you still ejaculate? This is all new to me and I'm sure I'll be told how everything will work but its more helpful to me to hear it from fellow sufferers. Incidently my bloods came back normal with no raised markers.
On the upside! reading some of the comments on this site and talking to my wife I've now decided to have the op but its really messing with my head!!! So much more difficult to get through this second time round. Any advice would be much appreciated as I'm still in a daze about the whole thing.
Cheers Mikky
