Smaller Testicle, Post Orchiopexy, After Testicular Torsion. Posted: 04-27-07 00:41am
Last year, around July, I experienced a
severe testicular torsion. After an
initial trip to the emergency room, the
doctor that night sent me home, thinking
that it corrected itself and advised me to
see an urologist the following Monday. The
next morning I woke up with an enlarged
testicle, and the pain began to return. I
visited another hospital with an urologist
on call, they did an ultrasound and found
that not only did my testicle torsion, the
spermatic cord somehow 'knotted' itself
around my epidemus, and had cut off blood
for an extended period, the urologist got
me into surgery ASAP and he had spoken to
me about a possible amputation...
I came out of the surgery with both
testicles and went to all my follow up
visits... the urologist performed the
orchiopexy on both of my testicles, to
avoid future reoccurences... as far as the
urologist could tell, I was fine. I have
noticed now, after started back into
sexual activities, that the testicle that
had torsioned is extremely smaller than
the other and feels firm... I have spoken
with an urologist and he feels that it is
just inflamed, but it's been months, he
assured me that in time it would be
restored... initially both were
considerably smaller, one has returned to
normal, but the torsioned testicle still
remains much smaller. Should I get a
second opinion from another urologist, I'm
concerned if the testicle is 'dead' and
needs to be removed... any ideas?
Thanks for reading.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 04-27-07 00:50am
If it was totally dead, it would have gone
septic by now and poisoned you to death
However, I too
would seek out a secondary opinion, just
to be sure.
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However, I too
would seek out a secondary opinion, just
to be sure.