I've had an inguinal hernia for about one year and 3 months in which i worked construction and did a good deal of traveling and hence walking. The intestine descended into my scrotum early on, about three months after the origional potrusion.

I had a laproscopic surgery recently, exactly 8 days ago to repair the hernia. For the first two days, everything seemed to be going well other then the expected pain. After 3 or 4 days, I noticed that my scrotum became quite enlarged where it wasn't before. Now on my eighth day, I am quite recovered... I can walk and climb stairs with little or no pain, but my left testicle is very sensitive and tender. When I stand i feel testicular pain from the weight of it.

I have read about something called Ischemic orchitis. After reading about this, I began freaking out. I called my surgeon in her house and she told me that it probably wasn't so because I would be in alot more pain and that it was possible that the fluids had hardened in my scrotum. I can feel my right testicle seperate and normal sized but my left testicle is either swollen or caught in one giant mass of fluid.

Has anyone experienced a similiar problem? Any kind of advice on the subject would be appreciated. Thank you all for your concern. P.S. I am 22 and my weight is normal and I am otherwise quite healthy.