montanachastityboi (imported) wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:28 am The prior Urologist tried to tell me that he believed they were just "Calcium Deposits" on the testicle without running any tests.
If you're worried about cancer, then be aware that the "tests" that follow ultrasound are usually removal of the testicle, and sending the whole organ off to the pathology lab for fine slicing and microscopic examination. Whether you pass or fail determines only whether you get to go on chemo, or hormone replacement.
I'm read up on the cutting edge (pardon my pun…) of managing orchialgia, and it's a horrorshow of things we simply do not know. A spiral CT of the pelvis will tell you if nerves are being entrapped in the spine, but you have obvious lumps. An MRI might be more revealing, but surgical biopsy is really the next step if you suspect cancer - needle biopsy will only cause metastasis to every other part of the body, because if it's a seminoma, it'll just leak out and go everywhere your lymphatic system goes. At that point, treatment is about buying you an extra year, not a healthy lifespan. Even if it's a solid tumor, metastasis is likely. Your best compromise is a surgical biopsy where they remove the testicles from the body, biopsy them, wait for a stat exam, and if there's a whiff of cancer, then they do the snip. The downside is you spend a very long time under general anesthesia. The upside is that if you pass, you don't get neutered.
As another pain patient, you have my sympathies and my ear, if you need to discuss something or want a copy of my research. It indicates that benign testicular cysts are much more common than they're cracked up to be - I have a smattering of them and intermittent pain, but that could merely be a coincidence.
I wish you luck, but I'll also caution you that resolving idiopathic, refractory pain can take years. However, I wish you good luck.