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Quickly, before November arrives! (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 26 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Funfact, it causes a small blip in the increased cases of prostate problems every year as well.

Drastically changing your masturbation habits is apparently not that healthy for you.

Upside the problems and pain it can cause also increases the amount of early discovery of prostate cancer every year.

So people are causing them self just enough medical problems to go to the doctor to get their prostate looked it and finding cancer they otherwise wouldn't have known about.

Downside the pain and problem your causing yourself and the fact it takes that to get people to go to the fucking doctor.

For the youngins doing it, it's what ever. But for those of us with prostate and getting up there in years. GO GET YOUR SELF CHECK PROSTATE CANCER ISNT A JOKE.

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  • [–] 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    Thats actually pretty interesting. Do we know if theres an actual cause-effect relationship or if its just making it detectable?

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  • [–] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    When the trend first started it wasn't uncommon for some doctors to advise against NNN because of the trend and there wasn't enough data to say either way.

    The last year or two I've seen most consensus lean towards just making it more detectable.

    For some people the sharp change in habit causes pain, or other very minor medical issues. They go in and get an exam they other wise wouldn't. And thus more cases are found.

    Wether or not NNN is actively harmful is up for debate still with most studies I've seen leaning towards it being fine to minorly unsafe.

    But the amount of studies is small and the evidence very weak.

    If anything it just reinforced the growing trend to suggest younger men go get prostate exams sooner then the old wisdom suggests.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    Once when I was in my early twenties, I went to a doctor, and since I had heard about people suggesting this "prostate exam" thing, I thought it would be a good idea to ask for one.

    Well the doctor apparently thought I was too young to ask for a prostate exam, and so decided to go in hard and fast and without lube, presumably to "teach me a lesson."

    Well, lesson learned. I might never get a prostate exam again, and if I die in a few decades of undetected prostate cancer, it will be that doctor's fault. But that likely won't be recorded on any of the paperwork. Because why would it.

    Not sure what the moral of the story is, but uh, maybe don't suggest young men get theirs checked, because if their experience is anything like mine then they might never get it checked again.

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