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Health, Beauty and Fitness - Fitness
Written by Benny   

ImageGuys, I know you hear about it ALL the time, believe me I get sick of it but I just thought it'd be pretty important to higlight the risks of testicular problems.

To be honest, the reason I've written this is because of something that happened recently. Well, monday night I was sat at the computer and I started to get a pain in my groin towards my left testicle (Feel like I should be saying ball instead but you know what I mean).

So I just told my Mum randomly, thinking that it was just because I had bashed it or something, but she seemed a little more concerned (being a Senior Nurse and all) and rang up the DRI (Derbyshire Royal Infirmary). Thinking she was blowing it out of proportion, I was reluctantly dragged down by her and my Dad and we went straight through to accident and emergency.


I was seen pretty quickly by a doctor who, embarrassingly so, had to 'examine' me . It wasn't pleasant, I must admit, but I wasn't about to shrug off the possibility of anything. He told me that it was either:

a) An inflammation of the testicle, due to a travelling infection (aka the flu I had last week) or
b) Torsion of the testicle; where the testicle gets twisted and starts to strangle itself in it's seminal-tubing (not pleasant, I know ).


He immediately referred me to the City Hospital, to the urology department where I was to be, again, 'examined' by a urologist *shudder*...he explained that if torsion was occuring, time was of the essence. It takes only 6 hours for a testicle to strangle; cut off the blood supply and die. And yep, you guessed it, removal of the testicle .

I just started to panic and was like "Okay, so what do we do now?" He said he wouldn't like to take any chances and began to prep me for theater. I was so spaced out.

One minute I'm sat at the computer with a little pain, 4 hours later I'm going down to theater for an operation.
It went pretty fast from there; wheeled down, needle and drip, blood pressure, patchy node thingies, oxygen mask and anaesthetic I was out from theater at about 3am, apparently I had woken up from the anaesthetic and ripped the needle outta my arm and then dropped to sleep again I can't remember anything......


I'm doing okay at them mo, a little sore, bruised and *ahem*swollen - I'm pretty sure they weren't THAT big to before I was lucky, it was only an inflammation. They removed the appendix of my left testicle (?) and stitched it so it wouldn't twist. Thank God no orchidectomy was needed, but it was better to get it checked out. My dad said, if it was him I'd told about the pain, he would've sent me to bed with some paracetamol and rang the doctors in the morning. By then I may have been mono-ball

So guys if you feel any pain at all down below, whether its really slight or really f*****g painful, get it checked out. It could be an inflammation like mine, torsion or something worse.

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20-08-2009 18:52
I went through almost the same thing except it wasn\'t torsion... ill leave it at \"i never wanting to go through chemo again\"
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20-08-2009 18:45
Wow small world. I went through almost the same thing except it wasn't torsion... ill leave it at i never wanting to go through chemo again & I lost a "friend" :sigh
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18-06-2009 16:16
That sucks it must of been painfull
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13-06-2009 19:50
I don't even have a penis ( or balls for that matter) and that freaked me out. God that must be pretty damn painful. Don't even ask me why I read this.
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10-06-2009 18:00
:upset
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11-05-2009 12:00
who that was really enlightening, im gonna e freaking out though, but yeah thanks
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24-04-2009 21:24
Ouch, that must of hurt,but im happy you are better and well
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24-04-2009 09:02
The story makes me cringe haha. But I'm glad you're better
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19-04-2009 00:46
omg wow ur blog reminds me of my heart operation...but awww u went through so much in a day:( i'm glad ur better now :)
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17-03-2009 17:25
Yeah, I had a slight pain there for years of my life. It went away, but they never did realize what exactly it was, which kinda creeps me out. I've had to visit many doctors, 90% of them male, thank God, who also needed to examine me. It's best to swallow your pride and do it, rather than risk having an unchecked tumor or something...
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09-02-2009 03:03
ouch 
must of been painful,,. 
 
 
i get quite worried sometimes cos i have a lump. dunno what to do, carnt tell parents dn have that sort of relationship and too scared to go to my docs. only person knows is my best mate,  
 
help people. x :roll
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08-02-2009 20:20
one of my testcles were in the bit were your pubes are and that hurt but i got a operation n sorted that  
anyone lse had that problem?
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06-02-2009 20:39
erm i like to play with my balls but i also like to twist one, but i twist it back lol um i did feel some pain in the morning but that went away in like 30 minutes.
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01-02-2009 21:32
I had a torsion :( hurt like fuck! So embarasing having doctors and specialists look and all were female ( trust me to get the day when most of the male staff are off). I'm good now though
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20-12-2008 03:45
:grin i had the SAME exact feeling the other day.. but i got checked and the doctor said nothing was wrong.. i guess its cause i'm "growing" too fast and my body isnt producing enough hormones or something like that.. idk but i'm fine now lol i'm just taking pain killers to get rid of the pain.
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15-12-2008 01:06
I had testicule torsion and it hurts like hell and it is very difficut for a doctor to know if u have it when it is not hurting 
i got operated and it was so shameful...... 
i couldent leave the house in 2 months and practically couldent move
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13-11-2008 21:16
ummm  
when i was younger i got kick in the balls by a soccer ball(obviously playing soccer)  
and i dunno but sometimes it hurts now  
shuld i seee a doctor?
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26-10-2008 10:51
yeah same thing happened to me exept i went 3 days without doing anything cause our doctors didnt think it was serious. ended up gettin the surgury and they were able to just save it. So important to speek up guys
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21-10-2008 01:35
Im glad you got better, but still...owww! :upset
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21-10-2008 01:34
Im glad you got better, but still...owww! :upset
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09-10-2008 15:42
owww. 
 
my left testicle hurts alot...god 
 
it started in german when we were having a test today and im dying lmao. we keep laughing about it hoping itll go away but now im creeped out. 
 
:x  
 
its strange coz i read this yesterday and now its hurting. 
 
im too scared to go to the docs. 
 
and i cant tell my mum shes starnge about everything. 
ill have to see if it passes
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30-08-2008 10:21
aah so painful im laughing off the pain i cant read nymore
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10-07-2008 22:00
Omfgp! that sounds terrible ; fortunately your are okay now 
*and fortunately ur not monoball now xD* :zzz
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03-05-2008 20:36
dude that happened to me and i went to the hospital but i ddint get surgery i had a catscan...but now im nervois
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08-04-2008 16:45
owowowowowowowow that sounds really painful i cant read this anymore aaaa
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19-11-2007 15:34
i've just read this and all the comments and i'm really scared bout it lol
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03-11-2007 10:04
Holy crap, just reading that felt like my eggs cracked. Ouch, dude! 
 
Glad it worked out, though. :)
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30-10-2007 23:31
:x wtf! okay... i'm like not scared now!!!...
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27-08-2007 22:06
WHAT AN EVENING. just hope it does not happen again
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12-08-2007 14:15
yh once my right testical was red and swollen. i first saw this on thursday. it began to really hurt so by monday night i finally told my mum. she phoned up the local doctors for an appointment. yes he had to examine it and i was a bit emmbarassed but hey. he then told me its pobably a torsion of the testicle and only needs six hours before the testicle dies. i was really panicing now considering it started from thursday.he said an opperation had to be done to make it right. so we hurried down to the hospital where a futher 3 people examined it. then an hour later the surgeon says its a infected cyst which needs to b removed or it could spread to the other. an hour later im sent to theatre, anisthetic etc, hour later op over and im asleep in the hospital wing. next day im home feeling sore but at least i didnt lose my precious testicles :p  
 
although it might have bin embarasing at the time it was better off telling someone. :)
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05-07-2007 21:50
i meant i got a key to c if my dick would get bigger if i put on (which it did)it got stuff ,had to oto to the emergency room get it plyerd off hurt like h**l and was bleeding ever were and stuff so yea it was kinda embarasing haveing to run out my room tellimg my mom and dad that i had a ring stuck arouond my thing luckally my brothers were sleeping
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05-07-2007 21:45
yea i but a key ring around my penis and it got stuck so yea i know how it feels like kinda
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24-06-2007 03:52
thanx 4 the injo
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13-06-2007 09:02
That sounds horrible. =[
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23-05-2007 12:35
Hmm, getting worried, sometimes i get an ache for no apparent reason.... checks downstairs, well i cen still feel both so i don't think its suffocated, but yeah, my parents call me a hypochondriac, so if i told them about it they'd do what your dad was gonna, heh, hmm, that could be bad....
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Mo
15-05-2007 23:50
ouch
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29-03-2007 16:33
I'm booked into having my testes fixed after a few episodes of torsion - they miraculously untwist each time. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about the side effects of having the testes fixed, besides the uncomfortability for 2 weeks.
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MH
28-03-2007 19:05
that would hurt 
 
id probably cry :cry
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01-03-2007 08:41
:O lol
the same appened 2 me my balls started stranglin them self n twistin n i was onli swimmin thts how it strted
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MartinLuvzDanny
01-03-2007 08:39
eeekkkkkkk
i got rushed into hospital wen i was 12 my balls twisted round each otha several tymes, it was pain ful :upset lol i nearly died cause the blud goin round my testies lmao was poisined n it cud av got into ma blud stream but im fyn now tnk god :grin
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