# Drunkenness = testicle pain?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168 "2007-07-17T19:04:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168/1 "2007-07-17T19:04:44Z")

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This is kind of a weird one, so bear with me. For as long as I can remember (well, since I started drinking alcohol), I’ve noticed a weird sensation associated with being drunk. When I’m really quite drunk, but not necessarily quite at the room-spinning stage, and sitting down, I often get a kind of pain/ache in my testicles. It’s not a constant thing, it kind of appears and disappears in waves, kind of like the pit-of-the-stomach feeling you can get when driving over a humpbacked bridge.

So, two questions:

1. Does anyone else get this, or am I a freak?
2. What could cause it?

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**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168/2 "2007-07-17T19:05:30Z")

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1. Blue balls?

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**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168/3 "2007-07-17T19:07:43Z")

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1. Being too forward with the knee-jerk crowd?

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**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168/4 "2007-07-17T19:08:31Z")

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1. Varicose veins?

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168/5 "2007-07-17T19:17:03Z")

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Beer nuts?

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168/6 "2007-07-17T19:30:15Z")

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[QUOTE=Leaffan]  
Beer nuts?  
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We have a winner 😃

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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168/7 "2007-07-17T19:37:28Z")

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Perhaps its a confused bladder response, where you are holding it in and simultaneously pulling in the muscles that also control your testis. 😕

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**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkenness-testicle-pain/412168/8 "2007-07-17T19:45:28Z")

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You play rochambeau during blackout periods?