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(#6) A Shrinking Mole
From Redditor /u/notsolittleliongirl:
My dad has a lot of moles, and my mom forced him to go to the dermatologist because he hadn’t been in years. She was worried about a few of the big moles that she thought might be getting bigger. The dermatologist pointed one out and asked if that was one they were concerned about and no, my mom said that one actually seemed like it was getting smaller so why would she be concerned? Doctor informed my parents they were doing a biopsy right there and then and cut a 1.5 inch long chunk out of my dad’s back.
It was melanoma, the really bad skin cancer. It turns out, if a mole is getting smaller, it’s probably because the immune system has a reason to attack it.
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(#12) Lower Back Pain
From Redditor /u/heckin_chill_4_a_sec:
Lower left back hurt like hell for months. Same spot has hurt quite often in my life due to sleeping on tiny sofas after a friends party too often or just generally sh*tty posture while sitting. So I ignored it a bit, did some stretching and whatever but it got worse, so one day I couldn't really move anymore. I lived with a roommate who wasn't home at the time, so it took me well over an hour to "walk" the 20 min way to the hospital. told them about my hurting back, took them about five or six hours to find out that my kidney was inflamed like hell and had been for the last weeks. Spent a week in the hospital, shivering and in pain, just because I thought I knew what's up.
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(#4) Inexplicable Red Marks On Your Body
From Redditor /u/sponger67:
[He got a huge splinter and] he was like, "It'll work it's way out on it's own." So, he left it alone, and a red line started to move along his arm from his pinky, up into his armpit. He finally got convinced to go in to the doctor, turns out the red line was a infection traveling along his vein, and had he not gone into the doctor when he did, they said the infection would have ended up in his heart and would have been extremely life threatening at that point.
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(#1) Persistent Heartburn
From Redditor /u/wherewalda:
Anything that is persistent. If it's not going away, it's not "just" anything, it needs to be looked at.
Persistent, raging heartburn. I was young and dumb and uninsured so I put it off. I put it off for nearly 3 months, by which point I was subsisting on plain yogurt and lentils and still having extremely painful bouts of heartburn and vomiting. I had lost a lot of weight and was consistently exhausted and in pain.
Finally went to the doctor - it was a raging case of H. Pylori infection. It was cleared up with antibiotics, but my doctor warned me at the time that I had probably caused irreversible damage to my stomach and digestive system by waiting so long. She was right - within a year, the heartburn was back, along with the nausea and vomiting. I essentially gave myself a chronic disease by ignoring the initial infection.
Moral of the story: if it keeps coming back, don't ignore it. What could have been treatable before will turn into something worse.
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(#3) Testicular Pain
From Redditor /u/boomwakr:
If you have testicular pain: don't f*ck around: seek medical attention immediately. I had testicular torsion and got lucky, a lot of men have lost [one or] both testicle[s] to this.
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(#13) Blood In Your Stool
From Redditor /u/sgarbusisad*ck:
Had an irritable bowel and one day found a speck of blood on the toilet paper. Doctor said it was probably nothing but get a colonoscopy just in case.
Nine months later my colonoscopy is ready, almost didn't go as I didn't see any blood after the initial time.
They removed 80 odd polyps from my bowel. A couple more years and the chance I would have had bowel cancer was like 80%. If I didn't get that colonoscopy I would have had bowel cancer by now. I was 28. I'm 31 now.
So now I get 10-15 taken out every 12 months for the rest of my life yay!
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When the body has a disease, there will be a certain signal. When we are getting older, many people tend to ignore some of their small medical conditions, especially men, such as frequent urination, swelling on the testicles, pain in the toes, etc. In fact, these inconspicuous symptoms are likely to be signs of a serious mens' illness. It is important to know that most men have bad life habits such as smoking and drinking. Compared with women, they have a higher risk of developing certain diseases.
The random tool lists 15 men's medical conditions that could be a sign of some serious diseases, a good lifestyle, regular physical examinations, and timely medical treatment are all very important ways to prevent diseases.
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