Torsion?

Torsion?
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Feb 7, 2006, 6:21 PM

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I hope I am posting in the right forum for this, and I greatly appreciate any help I can recieve. Please direct me to the correct section if I am wrong.

I'm an 18 year old male. A few weeks ago I shaved my pubic region for the first time in a long time, and did a thorough job. That night, I felt pain in my right testicle, but it went away after an hour or two. I looked up my symptoms and found that it might be testicular torsion, but I decided that it wasn't because it wasn't hanging higher, and there was no naseua associated with it. Ever since that night, I get a similar pain in my right testicle that lasts for about 1-2 hours every once in a while (maybe once a week). Is this testicular torsion? What else could it be? Did I do damage while I was shaving? Thanks for any help.

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Feb 20, 2006, 10:08 AM

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Hi there.
It could really be a number of things. If you didn't experience the problem at all until after you shaved that area, then it's likely there was some movement associated with your shaving that trigered the pain.

Males get pains occasionally in the tecticles - whether it be from sleeping wrong or in an irregular way, or jogging in boxers, etc.

You could've twisted your right testicle enough to cause some pain and tenderness.

Not sure if you read about testicle torsion, but I wanted to post this information for you and any others who experience associated problems.

Description:
The testicle is connected to the prostate gland by a "leash" called the spermatic cord. If that leash twists, it is called testicle torsion which can result in irreversible damage to the testicle if not untwisted emergently. Testicle torsion usually occurs on one side only and is more common in young men less than 25 years old. The cause of torsion is unknown but is often associated with physical activity or roughhousing such as from injury or from a forceful contraction of the surrounding investing muscles.

Signs and Symptoms:
Includes sudden pain in one testicle with swelling, redness, tenderness, nausea, vomiting, sweating, testicle laying side-ways, lack of cremasteric reflex.

Treatment:
This is a surgical emergency to untwist the torsion before the testicle dies from lack of blood flow. If the diagnosis can not be reasonably excluded by exam and tests than the scrotum must be explored surgically. Surgery usually involves a scrotal approach, with de-rotation or detorsion of the testicle, determination of viability, and either an orchiopexy if viable or an orchiectomy if non-viable.

I got the above information from:
http://palm.skynetmd.com/skymain_search.cfm?recid=34711&p=palm&li=palm&v=2

You should contact your physician if this pain persists.

Hope this helps you a little. And hope you feel better. Believe me, testicle pain is not a good feeling for nyone Unsure

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