Guys, I know you hear about it
ALL the time, believe me I get sick of it but I just thought it'd pretty important to higlight the risks of
testicular problems.
To be honest the reason I've posted this topic 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.
[By the way, if I sounded like one of those patronizing health workers called 'Jerry', I'm very sorry and you have permission to kill me.]
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