Why Wait?

[Paolo]

Did you read it until the end?

[ZeuterMe (imported)]

Shit. It would have been nice to have someone pay _me_ for the privilege of providing medical treatment, for once. :p

Lessee…

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/low-t ... h-testicle

http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/extreme-che ... al-trials/

Turns out that low testosterone foiled his attempt to sell a nut, so he opted into a trial on HRT instead, for a little less money.

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

FWIW, losing the nuts cured my pain, but consider carefully first.

Now, I've never felt better.

[ZeuterMe (imported)]

FWIW, losing the nuts cured my pain, but consider carefully first.

Now, I've never felt better.

I've considered carefully for years. Now I really need an open-minded sounding board with no vested interest in either getting me neutered, or avoiding - surgery, legal risk, or cost, I guess. Maybe I'll take advantage of my insurance's nurse-consultation line, if those discussions are privileged. One thing I do not have in my life right now is an impartial audience.

[Wellesley (imported)]

I've considered carefully for years. Now I really need an open-minded sounding board with no vested interest in either getting me neutered, or avoiding - surgery, legal risk, or cost, I guess. Maybe I'll take advantage of my insurance's nurse-consultation line, if those discussions are privileged. One thing I do not have in my life right now is an impartial audience.

Wow, that is extremely tough.

I would say I had no audience though.

My wife was kind of harsh on me the first time. She was too stressed with our son (he was only 18 months at the time of my first surgery) job stuff etc. I think also the timing from when I was diagnosed with pain issues (for the 5th or 6th time) and being on IM pain meds (most narcotic pain meds are not allowed "out in public" in Japan, thus are strictly controlled and by injection only) So, the only lucky thing in that case was having a pair of female urologists determine that removal of the right testes was the correct treatment. Otherwise it would have been hell on wheels and me addicted to IM pain meds....

The second surgery was 3 years later. After my wife had her radical hysterectomy and was completely asexual and sterile. Thus a lot of things had changed. I would say she was supportive but pretty distant. She was more worried about how I would change. Become fat or whatever.

She was extremely unhelpful with the HRT, but then she does not deal with stress well. HRT is a new kind of hell. It is not easy. It is better than the pain of course but in a different way it is worse. A baseline T level is not helpful if the testicles are failing. I was having extreme energy issues before the surgery which I thought was just summer fatigue but was really a low T of 271.

I was originally on 250 mg dose, first by month, then biweekly it was all kinds of hell. I mean if you enjoy reliving high school.... It was terrible and the fact my wife was completely shut down sexually did not help. So... that is kind of a huge issue.

I mean there is loads written on here about "calmness" while that is more or less true. It is also under "your milage will vary"

So many places will remove breasts, ovaries or uteri but not a testicle. This is the truth in most medical systems I think. So finding a medical system which is open to your request is tough maybe.

I agree with dais-orchid that "losing the nuts cured my pain" and I can only stress his point to consider it all carefully. Also make sure the surgeon knows the reason. The operative techniques are different. And you really have to be your own advocate and make specific requests.

[ZeuterMe (imported)]

Two new reasons to wait:

Kratom - 5 times stronger than morphine at killing pain in low doses, (https://kratomwebshop.com/kratom-natural-pain-relief/) but it requires significant overdoses to get high at all. Available over the Internet, or can be grown in your own yard in subtropical regions.

CBD Oil - according to anecdotes, it boosts healing and the immune system. According to this summary of studies found on PubMed, (https://healthyhempoil.com/cannabidiol-pain-relief/) it's quite an effective painkiller in dealing with chronic pain in ways that opiates simply are not.

Two new reasons not to wait:

last Friday, early in the evening, I noticed I was bleeding into my sac. The whole side was redder than the left, and I had a bullseye-shaped bruise. (Due dilligence: I used a UV lamp to check for ringworm. Nope. Also, no evidence of a tick bite, which suggests it's not lyme disease.) About 2" were faintly bruised, and there was a dime-to-nickel sized patch (dependent on the degree of stretching) of unambiguous light purple.

This coincided with the pain going on a tear, with two events that could have interfered with driving in one day; one rose to the level of yelping and hyperventilating. These days, I'm pretty blasé about hurting, and pretty good at pushing past it, but that one was a surprise. Peculiarly, they were both on the left, the side without the bruising.

I'm somewhat concerned about the bleeding, and irritated it's going to heal before I could make it in to see my urologist. I'm concerned that it may be related to the time during a nerve block that he probably nicked a blood vessel, and I ended up looking like a ripe plum. Also, how much of a human's blood supply can be lost if an aneurysm of the sperm cord ruptures? Probably not a ton, since mechanical counterpressure can be applied (a euphemism for "covering your sac in rubber bands") to limit how much the sac can swell, and how much blood can be lost into it, but while the coagulation systems work to close wounds and reopen blood vessels, it seems likely that you would lose the nut downstream of the blowout.

I'm clearly fretting, and the consternation's not helping. I haven't injected, done testicular exposures, or any of the things that other members have, just a torsion when I was … about ten. The hospital said it resolved itself about seven hours after I presented, but modern research says that time is tissue, and five hours of reduced blood flow (by only 30%) leaves you shooting blanks for the rest of your life.

This also followed an evening where I had to bow out of a multiplayer game with friends because my heart was racing and I generally felt like dog shit. Does anybody know if that is consistent with infarcted tissue releasing cytokines? I remember something happened in an episode of House… Aha, season 1, episode 21, "Three Stories" - my Google Fu is strong today - where House's infarcted leg muscle, according to this transcript, when re-perfused (he had bypass surgery to save the leg) released enough potassium into his bloodstream to stop his heart.

I'm not a doctor, but I am a scientist by training, and my SWAG seems internally consistent. Any ideas?

[Wellesley (imported)]

Unexplainable bleeding is always a concern

The scrotum will blow up like a balloon though. As to volume of blood...I am thinking I lost in the range of 1 liter to drop my hematocrit so much when I had a surgery that nicked something.

If the bleeding and bruising has resolved then it is ok though?

[ZeuterMe (imported)]

Unexplainable bleeding is always a concern

The scrotum will blow up like a balloon though. As to volume of blood...I am thinking I lost in the range of 1 liter to drop my hematocrit so much when I had a surgery that nicked something.

If the bleeding and bruising has resolved then it is ok though?

It's improving, rather than getting worse, so I'm not hugely worried. Still… The very fact that it happened in the first place is worrying.