Testicle Pain

[goltho]

Originally Posted by Daveluck

....8 student doctors fumbling around the family jewels with various degrees of gentleness, unexpected expertise and embarrassment.

"Right then you lot - form an orderly queue....."

[Dallas]

Originally Posted by goltho

I've never heard that, I gotta say. It's the starboard side.



No, it's generally aggravated by trauma (accidentally banging it, dog jumping up etc., doesn't need to be a hard knock) or if I'm unusually sedentary for a few days. That can cause an increasing ache right up to making me adopt the John Wayne walk for a day or so until it settles. I believe it's the sustained pressure on the cyst which aggravates it into waking up. It only ever swells a little then subsides again.

What's the craic with left and right then?

Dougie.

That is the right one then is it Dougie. Everyone I speak with say their left one is the problem, normally the left suffers from varicose veins and cysts, they also tend to be larger is size on the left.

I was told by the doc, the left and right testicle are wired differently. Its much more common to suffer varicose veins and cysts in the left testicle (about 80% in cases). Due to the higher percentage of sufferers allows for the NHS to operate, the smaller percentage of 'right' testicle pain sufferers don't get a look-in.

When I had my ultrasound scan a few weeks ago, the doc tells me do I suffer any pain or discomfort in the left testicle? I reply with NO!? He tells me I have more varicose veins and cysts which are larger in the left one, he thought it was quite strange...

My problem starts as soon as I get dressed in the mornings and the first moment I sit down, my trousers will ride up and touch my testicle and WHAM! within 10mins I get the ache, then the ache turns into pain. If I stand back up this will ease the pain, and eventually will turn back into a dull heavy ache. If I sit down for more than an hour, the pain then locks itself in, the pain is then with me all day.

What ever is going on with my balls is obviously getting worst, I used to have a couple pairs of trousers/chinos/jeans that were my saviour, I could wear them and they didn't aggravate the condition. However! now they do, every god-dam pair hurts my nuts. I've bought so many different pairs of jeans/trousers/chinos just to try and find that perfect pair, I'm now on first name terms with all the staff at my local high street clothes stores.

The pain I feel in my groin and leg is becoming unbearable, my foot aches all day, walking like John Wayne I've got down to a fine art. The pain makes my whole leg go numb to the point my leg doesn't want to work. I'm 6ft, 12.5 stone slim build and like to keep fit, and this testicle pain is turning me into an old man, its like having a disability... How can one small little oval ball do this to a grown man, its putting me out of action... its unbelievable.

When I go see the urologist in April, hoping sooner if they get a cancellation, I'm not going to take no for an answer this time. They have got to help me, otherwise I'll cut the blooming thing off myself. I cannot believe they can expect someone to be in this amount of pain and discomfort everyday, its absolutely torture.

Originally Posted by Daveluck

Yes I've had the left and right issue.

Varicose veins on the left testicle no operation varicose on the right you need an operation.

Never got to the bottom of why so to speak.

When I went to the specialist he asked if he could bring in some students " as we all have to learn". Not really thinking it through I agreed then had 8 student doctors fumbling around the family jewels with various degrees of gentleness, unexpected expertise and embarrassment.

Hi Dave, That is the opposite to what I was told, these docs seem to change the rules as and when, if you ask me.

What was your diagnosis, did you have a operation?

[Daveluck]

No operation for me. But you've got me doubting myself now on the left and right side. But I'm fairly certain that most of these typically grow on the left.

It was 20 odd years ago and other than remembering 9 pairs of hands cupping me balls it is all a bit vague. I seem to remember that the veins can constrict the tube that carries the love juice which then plays havoc with the testicle. Why that is more disastrous on the right rather than the left I don't know.

Have you tried cricket box / cod piece or something similar to give you a bit of protection

https://www.google.es/search?q=cameo...SUjx6Rtkxe0mM:

It doesn't have to be red....

[Dallas]

Originally Posted by Daveluck

No operation for me. But you've got me doubting myself now on the left and right side. But I'm fairly certain that most of these typically grow on the left.

It was 20 odd years ago and other than remembering 9 pairs of hands cupping me balls it is all a bit vague. I seem to remember that the veins can constrict the tube that carries the love juice which then plays havoc with the testicle. Why that is more disastrous on the right rather than the left I don't know.

Have you tried cricket box / cod piece or something similar to give you a bit of protection

https://www.google.es/search?q=cameo...SUjx6Rtkxe0mM:

It doesn't have to be red....

Lol Dave Cameo - word up, bring on the 80's.

Red will do just fine, it will match my ZT.

[Lancpudn]

I was just reading up on testicle pain this evening.

[COLVERT]

-----------Made me spill my coffee-------------

[Dallas]

Blooming ek! NOW! that is a proper set of gonads.

[Dallas]

Well... I had the Urologist appointment just a few days ago, this time he has agreed to remove the epididymis as a last resort, but not the whole testicle. First he wants me to try pelvic floor exercises for six months, and then he reckons if that doesn't work he may give me the nerve block injection.

He said we can discuss about removing the epididymis on the next visit (6 months), but he has said there is no guarantee it will solve the problem. He did say my condition does sound like a damaged/inflamed epididymis, and that I have two small epididymal cysts on the head of the epididymis.

So it still looks like I am going to be in pain for another 8 to 12 months before I get a epididymectomy operation. My thoughts are... isn't 10 years being in pain long enough?

What a right nightmare this is turning into, my right testicle is causing me such a disability, I'm getting to the stage where I cant do the simplest of tasks because of the pain and discomfort I am in 24/7.

What is the point of the NHS?

I may just call the clinic and say I cant wait the 6 months, or I may contact NHS England and see what they can do. They should be able to mediate and put my complaint to the hospital for reconsideration of their diagnoses.

In the meantime to releive the pain, I'm going to have to pretend I'm Scottish, just so I can wear a skirt.

[Bogbrush82]

Could you not get a second opinion? Most hospitals I know have some sort of walk in centre.

[Dallas]

Originally Posted by Bogbrush82

Could you not get a second opinion? Most hospitals I know have some sort of walk in centre.

I dont know of any walk in centres, my three local hospitals are Wimborne, Poole and Bournemouth.

Would they not just tell me that I need to see a Urologist.