I had mine done by inguinal and I do suggest it for pain. Its hard to follow where your at but the approach that I think is best is to have them removed though an inguinal incision then fish out the cords and cut as high as possible. Scrotal orchiectomy often causes pain further down the line. Its possible the cord will try to reattach to the scrotum (ouch!) or some other place because its not cut high enough. *Unless they use special tools to go up inside you.

As to "matching" your wifes sex drive. Sheesh... I've heard this before and my suggestion is that you might have understood that people are different and its unlikely even with HRT that your going to be able to closely match drives. You also have signed up for a lifetime of treatment and depending on your insurance could be a serious issue money wise and doctors visit wise. Your also signing up for a yearly physical, PSA, DRE to be sure you don't grow cancer with the Hormones you take. "if" you ever do get cancer you can expect to be denied HRT and be pretty miserable. Like doing the high wire without a net.

Anyhow, its too late to change your mind since you took this into your own hands. I would for one not BS your doctor. He/She is probably spending time trying to figure out how you got this way and its pointless having them try to understand or "fix" what you did. Going on HRT will be complicated as it always seems to take some fiddling to get a dose that works right and you should keep it in mind that this may change. And that you may not be aware that your changing for the worse. Keep you wife in "observe" mode and don't be surprised if your sex drive goes to zero and you don't notice (And she does, and feels anger and rejection)

Hi MrT,

Thanks for your input. As I wrote before it is much more than just the matching to my wifes drive. I have always hated the look of them. I always fantisized about not having them. So this decision was not taken lightly. First one is gone and I am looking forward to the second.

The only "BS" my doctor has is that he does not know what the cause of the damage was, but he is not making a big deal of it either. I half think he knows that it was intentional.

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For anyone who is using alcohol injections.

My pathology report came back and it showed 70% involvement (meaning dead) of the testicular tissue and punctate areas of hemorrhage.

Does the insurance company typically see the pathology report? Wouldn't they refuse to pay if it was shown that the cause was intentional?

unencumbered (imported) wrote: Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:59 am Does the insurance company typically see the pathology report? Wouldn't they refuse to pay if it was shown that the cause was intentional?

I'm not sure, I don't have conventional insurance. The path report did not suggest intentional, the only "diagnosis" was idiopathic infarction.

Idiopathic = Idio=Unknown or naturally caused Pathic(pathos)disease

or as is taught in med school Idio=Idiot(Dr.) cant find pathos=disease

or in my case more like Idio=Idiot(Me) pathos=caused