A few of the Monzo team (including @cookywook) are! You can follow their page here, and donate if you wish: Movember - Changing the face of men's health - Movember
If so, please do let us know how your moustache is coming along. I can personally attest that @cookywook is making great progress – here he is pictured today with a bag of Swedish Fish.
At first I thought this post was going to be about you doing movember @yen 
On another note it seems a lot more people are doing it this year (that I know of) which is great!
I wanted to bump this up - not because I’m doing Movember, but wanted to just spew some nonsense about an experience that’s happened to me, in the hope that it may - just may - help at least one person on here! After all, November starts today, and it’s about raising awareness of Men’s Health Issues.
Recently, I’ve been experiencing some symptoms that I didn’t think much of. Overtime, they worsened (a lot), and after much skepticism I reached out to my doctor to discus them. Initial testing revealed I had elevated PSA levels (a key indicator for suspected Prostate Cancer), this resulted in me being referred onto an Urgent Suspected Prostate Cancer Pathway. Fortunately, two days ago, I received a call to tell me my MRI was all clear for Prostate cancer. I’m now having more tests, including 6 weekly blood tests to check my levels to establish my baseline and figure out why they were so elevated.
I’m one of the lucky people who didn’t have cancer, but the key here is, I got symptoms - some that embarrassed me, some that f**king terrified me - and spoke to my doctor as soon as possible. They were very quick at getting me urine tests, blood tests, an ultrasound and an MRI. There was no embarrassment or judgement in the conversations with my doctor, just support, everyone in the NHS has been fantastic, supportive & communicative - 6 weeks from initial consultation with my doctor to the MRI results.
Honestly, I was frightened, had sleepless nights, catastrophised everything in my head about what may be the problem, started planning for the worst case scenario.
But speaking to friends, family, and work colleagues showed how much support there was around me. Who knows what my future monitoring reveals, maybe I’ll end up with other symptoms, maybe I’ll be unlucky and end up with cancer. But whatever happens, I’ll speak out early & quickly - because I know if I do my chances are much much higher of things getting caught & treated.
Ignoring symptoms, won’t fix the symptoms!
So if you’re experiencing symptoms that are bit weird, or different to your normal body. Contact your doctor - like I did - don’t just shrug it off and wait for it to get worse. Best case it’s nothing, worst case you’ve caught it early enough and can start treatment.
tl;dr - had symptoms of prostate cancer, scary ones, spoke to doctor, bad test results, referred for Suspected Cancer, MRI found no cancer. Still unsure wtf’s going on with my PSA levels. Don’t be scared if things change in your body, go get them checked out…
Glad to see you have been given the all clear of Prostate Cancer.
Takes a lot of guts to post that, you should be really proud of yourself.
Men do tend to bottle things up, I know I do even to my partner.
I can’t recommend this enough.
I also had a cancer scare this year (different cancer though) which turned out to be nothing to worry about.
I’m by no means an expert, but I have heard that the PSA test does tend to throw up false positives as in raised PSA levels are indicative of a potential problem, but aren’t proof that the problem exists.
Glad it’s all clear for you (and me).
Thanks for sharing that @michaelw90. Too many men end up dying of embarrassment.
Docs have seen it all before.
