I have recently signed up here to perhaps pass on any wisdom I may have accrued over the years and understand others' perspectives. Now to the particulars!
I'm a 30 year old post-operative transgender woman who also had the experience of severe testicular pain for some years before and during the first years of her transition. By the grace of a lovely urologist who picked up my case after unsuccessful pharmaceutical interventions by other urologists/my own physician and a spermatic cord denervation (done by one of his proteges, who did great work but my body was un-coopoerative
), it was finally pin-pointed by him that it was a result of dilated blood supply entrapping nerve endings in the absense of any other reason (a head-scratcher for him as well).In Sept. 2013 (right side, left was largely asymptomatic at that point but also had variocele in it) and Jan. 2015 (left side, after it had become symptomatic with a vengence in late 2014) I had unilateral orchiectomies that conclusively solved the pain where nothing else had long term. I had already come out the year of my first orchiectomy on the right side, so my urologist had hoped that maybe the left testicle would keep my scrotum stretched until I could have GRS (which I had hoped would be the case as well, but it's always the best laid plans of mice and men that oft go awry
). The minor change of plans required a little more work keeping things stretched, but things worked out surgically a couple years later very well in 2017 when that finally happened.I figured I could lend a hand around these parts with my knowledge base on topics I may have tidbits of knowledge about (medical topics, TG stuff, psychology), learn new perspectives (something I'm always keen to do as I ponder going back to school for psychology), and perhaps find some camaraderie here.
I am disappointed that Jesus is the only one who has greeted you.So welcome to the zoo. :)Ernie of Maine