Yep. A dude at my high school had it. He said it was quite unpleasant. Apparently it can happen to dogs, too.
I’ve heard of it too (I’m a 35 year old lady) and I’m also not sure why.
I saw it on *Venture *but I’m pretty sure I’d heard of it before then. Probably heard about it here, this is where I hear all the things 
We work people up for this in my ER regularly, but rarely find it, I wouldn’t have called it common.
A close female friend of mine rolled over in bed and suddenly had excrutiating pain in her abdomen/groin. Her husband rushed her to the ER, and they diagnosed her with an ovarian torsion.
FROM ROLLING OVER IN BED!!!:eek:
She was on strong pain pills until they could get her scheduled for surgery, which happened within a couple of days.
…I think about that a lot when I’m laying in bed. I’m askeerd to roll over. 
How could it even happen with ovaries? Isn’t the whole uterus in between them?
Well it happened to me and I NEVER spoke about it at school, NEVER. I was 12yo so it was 1978 in a middle class Australian suburb.
Can you imagine the shit I would have got from the local bullies?
Oh and I have fathered children and have an excellent sex drive.
Think of an ovary as being a ball suspended by blood vessels and the ball twisting around. Less common than testicular torsion as they are more often more secured in place and less flapping around, but it happens.
Did have one little girl with an ovary coming out an inguinal hernia … and had a good outcome.
The never talk about it bit is one reason why so few are saved. Many boys live with the pain (and it is pretty bad pain) rather than tell a parent that something is wrong … there. One kid had it swollen to grapefruit size and admitted to pain for over a week before he finally told his parents and was brought in. The testicle was not saved, surprise.
Short story: had it, lost it. Misdiagnosis at the ER got me sent home with a painkiller and antibiotics, testicle “died” :eek:and became hard. Other doctors saw that, diagnosed testicular cancer and I went under the knife, woke up with one ball missing, an abdominal incision, an incision on my scrotum, news that I didn’t have cancer and that they had stitched the other ball in place so it wouldn’t twist. “Bellclapper’s syndrome” means you swing a little too freely down there and are prone to spontaneous torsion. Lost the medical malpractice suit, too. They did offer to put in a prosthetic made of teflon, but I thought, “iron balls or nothing.”
A friend of mine was an emergency room doctor and told me about a young man who came in with pain in his testicles. Sure enough it was TT. While he was working around with the man’s hairy berries he thought he felt a lump and sent him on to an oncologist. It turned out to be testicular cancer so he lost the set. If it hadn’t been for the TT it would have probably been too late in a few more months.
Yep. Happened to my son. Saved the boys just in time.
I had ovarian torsion. Not fun. 
Heard about it probably 25 years ago, probably read about it in a bodybuilding magazine.
People probably don’t talk about it because they get laughed at.
Yep, happened to a friend of mine when we were teens…IIRC he went to the ER and a doctor manipulated it into place (without surgery).
Yep I waited about 3-4 days from memory, this is why I have talked to my son about it so he feels comfortable coming to me about anything.
I’ve heard of it. I’ve also heard that it could be very painful, that it could happen for pretty much no reason (i.e. no “need” for trauma, or a kick in the nuts or whatever) and that, yeah, absent very rapid medical help (though not necessary surgery) you can and will lose the affected organ.
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See, OP, this would be one cause for testicular torsion. My balls just violently retracted picturing this.
My son was born with a penile torsion. He had surgery at 9 months old. Healed nicely. Now it’s 4 years later and everything looks and works normal. We as his parents didn’t tell people about it except for his grandparents. I doubt surgeries like this are casually talked about.
Happened to one of my uncles (I don’t know the details, my age having been in single digits at the time) and to one of my brothers (his balls are still both in their usual places). Both of them have also had inguinal hernias, independently of the torsion.
My mother had ovarian torsion, combined with several large cysts all in the same ovary. The surgeons were going in for apendicitis, the appendix was healthy as can be, they rummaged around and called an obgyn. At the time there was no such thing as HRT and while the other ovary showed some cysts, they weren’t bad enough to remove it from a woman in her early 30s as that would have meant going from “you have apendicitis” to “you just underwent menopause 20 years early”. My brothers come from that second ovary.
It’s not one ovary getting twisted around the other; it can be for example the fallopian tube on that side twisting upon itself.
Some descriptions make it sound like one testicles blood supply and vas defrens are getting twisted around themselves, others like both testicles are getting twisted around each others.
Or are both possible?
I almost wonder why it doesn’t happen more during sex play, or does it?