Nothing serious. Two weeks ago I had a slight pain above my right testicle. I’d been working out and lifting weights heavily, and just figure I’d pulled something. It slowly went away as expected.
Now however I have a similar pain. It’s located just to the left of the point of my right hip, and maybe two inches inside. Again, it feels like a pull of some kind. I’ve had a cold, and haven’t worked out in 4-5 days.
Whassup whit this? Am I just getting old and shitty or have I hurt myself somehow?
As Qagop said. It could be a bunch of things, not only muscle pulls. I’ll just point out that that point which you describe is called “McBurney’s point.” It a typical site of pain for appendicitis, although from your 8 sentences, it doesn’t sound like this is what you have.
Why a urologist? A general surgeon should be able to take care of the hernia. If the testicle had been torsed, it would have infarcted by now, and the OP’er would know it. The ER doc should be able to differentiate between a hernia and epididimitis, they’re both pretty common. And I bet the poster had had enough of different people juggling his balls by this time anyway.
Because of the swelling behind the top of the testicle, I am seeing a urologist tomorrow. I opted to wait a day to see a guy I know and respect rather than the guy on call. I spoke to him today and he says he’ll come in, and I should call him if anything changes.
In hindsight I probably just should’ve seen the urologist on call.
Because I took my son (10) to the Er at 1am two times & about three doctors looked at him & said he was okay & then one suggested a visit to a urologist. The urologist found the hernia right away. Did the surgury & during surgery found the testical was larger than it should be so had to drain that testical too.
I did notice only the urologists did not use rubber gloves so maybe they could feel things better.
Good move. I’ll decline the opportunity to take the ER doc to task for missing the epididimitis, 'cuz if I did, that would almost guarantee I’ll miss something on a patient tomorrow.