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He was an atheist married to an agnostic. Then one day his wife told him she had become a Christian. To save his marriage, he spent over 1year trying to find evidence to disprove Christianity to show his wife that it’s all nonsense. Then he found this:

Your concerns are very valid as a man regarding the prostate exam using the finger, however as a doctor it will be negligence of professional duty of care for me to endorse your anxieties and say “if you want to die as a warrior”, then so be it. Contrary to recent delusional deranged opinions on this app, no competent trained doctor should ever reinforce your fears and help amplify your anxieties as a patient because they don’t want to offend your feelings with the truth. So pls my brother permit me to help address your concerns (which are valid) but hopefully I can disabuse your mind of your fears. Now to the issues you raise: There are machines that can investigate the prostate. The MRI that you mentioned is actually used to also scan the prostate. So if you absolutely do not want a finger going into your anus, you can have a prostate MRI scan done which can adequately help in understanding any medical problems that your prostate may have. Specifically regarding the prostate exam, The reason medical doctors insert a finger into your anus to check your prostate is because this is the only way for us in a clinic setting to reach your prostate and feel for the prostate to have a rough idea of what is going wrong if you have signs and symptoms of a prostate disease. If there was another way to do this exam, I promise you doctors will opt for it. Putting your fingers into someone’s anus is not exactly fun for the doctor, or for the patient. But then again, the job of a doctor is to do whatever it requires, even if it is inconvenient, to assess your problem and present a solution. For instance when we use a finger to feel the prostate through the anus, we can know if it is enlarged, if it is hard, if it is firm, if it is rough, if it is painful or if it bleeds when touched. Now depending on what we find or elicit from that examination, it can help us distinguish specifically what kind of prostate disease you have- whether this is prostate infection, prostate cancer or just harmless prostate enlargement. Some men urinate many times a day, see blood in their urine, have to strain before they can urinate, they urinate many times at night, they have to rush once they need to urinate, they notice poor flow when to urinate, or sometimes dribbling of urine at end of urination. Some or all of these symptoms if you have any of it as a man may mean prostate disease. The specific type of prostate disease will depend on other questions and the exam the doctor does for you. But if anyone reading this has any of these symptoms, pls see your doctor. Or if you know any man who has these symptoms, pls tell them to see a doctor as soon as they can. There are ways to make the finger exam less uncomfortable. The doctor should make sure they wear good gloves, use a good amount of lubricant and be very gentle. This way the whole procedure is almost pain-free. A finger exam in the anus to check the prostate should never be painful in ideal circumstances. It may be inconvenient or uncomfortable but it should never be painful or distressing. Once it gets painful then the procedure should be stopped. Anyway I hope this little writeup has been helpful and I hope this has reassured you, and allayed your fears and anxieties regarding the prostate exam. I think all men over 40 who have any urine problems should ensure they have a prostate exam done, please. It’s a simple painless procedure that can save your life. Prostate cancer is one of the highest killers of men worldwide and also in Nigeria. Please don’t choose to “die as a warrior” because you are scared of a finger going into your anus to find out early if there’s a problem with your prostate. Early diagnosis of prostate cancer saves lives. Please I beg you all, kindly educate and encourage someone around you: Thanks 🙏🏿 and please if you are a man or you have a man you care about, please retweet and share this with them.