I've been having testicle problems for a
while now. I'm 18 years old and I just
graduated high school. Back in march
during a tennis practice I first noticed
some pain in my groin. At the time I
thought I pulled a muscle. The pain got
worse so I saw my doctor. He said I had
epididymitis and that I needed to see a
urologist immediately. I took his advice
pretty seriously (who wouldn't?) so that
same day I went to see a urologist. He
said I had epididymitis, put me on
penicillin, and sent me home. Over the
course of the next two months, I was also
on bactrim, zithromax, and cipro, none of
which did anything for me. Then one night
in may, the pain was so bad, and my
testicle was so swollen I decided to go to
the emergency room. I had an ultrasound
done and the er doctor said I had a
varicocele and a hydrocele in my left
testicle. For the upteenth time I went to
my urologist, and he gave me no
information. He put me on celebrex and
told me to wear a jock strap. I did some
research online and I switched doctors.
The fact that my first doctor failed to
diagnose a varicocele made me realize that
he wasn't too good. So then I went to a
second doctor who said that I should
definitely have surgery to correct the
varicocele. He said that my ultrasound
showed that it had atrophied and was 3 mm
smaller than my right. This, plus the fact
that it was causing me pain, seemed like a
good reason to have the procedure done.
So last monday I had it done. The incision
is about 2 cm long and it is on the lower
left side of my abdomen and it's healing
nicely. It's only been a week, and so far
I haven't noticed anything unusual about
my recovery (i've read dozens of horror
stories online though). However, it feels
as if the varicocele was not completely
fixed. I still have that "bag of worms"
attached to my left testicle, although it
is significantly smaller, and it's still
achy. I was just wondering if this is to
be expected. Is it possible that the
doctor ligated most of the varicose veins
but that he missed a few?
