About two years ago, I found a rice-grain sized lump, slightly tender-to-painful, on the pole of my left testical. The plumbing (the epiwhatzit) was also swollen on that side. In all my frantic email searches, there seemed to be one frightening theme: if it's attached to the testicle itself, it's probably cancer.

Now, I don't know if there is some way for it to not be attached, but seem in every way through countless massage-detections to be attached. Maybe there is. But I could flick this thing with my thumb nail through the skin, and it wouldn't move off the testical at all. To me, it was absolutely attached. To this day, it's still there and still seem attached.

I had an ultrasound. It was negative. The rice grain has remained a rice grain and the ultra sound people told me it was something (sorry, forgot) that made no sense when I looked it up. It's all very fuzzy now, as you can imagine the issue loses urgency once your realize you don't have the big C.

Anyway, all my symptoms are the same these two years later. No idea what it is, but with the fast progress of testy cancer, I don't think it could be a cancer that the ultra sound simply missed.

My point is only this: there is a kind of medium-hard, flickable, rice-shaped lump that can be (at least absolutely SEEM to be) attached to a testical, close to the plumbing, and not be cancer.

Good luck to all. Go get it checked out, but don't assume the worst.