Pain in left testicle or groin strain?

My name is Jake and your story is identical to mine. I got checked immediately because of testicular cancer running in my family. Like you stated, I think my head/mind was doing me worse than the dull ache and my doctor agreed. She sent me to urologist and after blood work and both of them doing an examination of the area. The urologist said I strained/tore/pulled my cremaster muscle. He said it was most likely because of poor stretching before working out and that it would take time to heal. Hot baths help me significantly. Hope this helps. My anxiety and depression were off the charts. Lost weight because of no appetite. When the "boys" are hurting it can be nerve racking.

my boyfriend found a swelling next to his left testicle a couple of days ago and it is red inflamed and painfull,he said he strained when we was having sex in spoon position,but he is a compulsive masturbator&would rather do it watching porn on his own,which makes me feel totally inadiquate,has he got this through masturbating or by having sex in spoon position?please can you help?

Bro can you suggest that therapist

Same things happening to me. The pain is caused by a muscle strain. You may not have even known you strained the muscle. Inflammation from the strain can cause pain in nearby areas. The nausea and stomach pain is the same for me as well. It's caused by anxiety thinking I may have cancer or something. I went to the doctor. They checked my CBC, prostate, and urine for blood, bacteria, and sugar, and everything came back clean. Don't let web MD scare you like it did me. The more you think about the pain, the stronger it gets, and you will only psych yourself out. If it is serious, you will have no doubt. A lot of times, extra symptoms can be caused by overthinking things. It's incredible what our minds can do to our body. My suggesting is get plenty of exercise. Lay off of caffeine. Drink plenty of water. Stretch a lot and do yoga every day if you have to. If the symptoms are still there after a month of letting your mind not dwell on it, then go get it checked out. If you are chill about it and it's getting worse, then go get it checked out. Your best bet is to see a urologist. They can usually tell if you're just overly anxious or if there is a serious problem you need to address. Hope this helps!

same issue too

I have had same pain for about two weeks. Do you recommend Massage as well?

Strange I've had the same thing for almost two months now. Extremely similar, and the last thing I did was get under my car too. Ever since then there's been this dull ache sometimes feels isolated to the testicle, other times just around it, but always just the left side. No lumps that I detect, and one week it felt like it went away entirely. No doctor yet though

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I've gone through quite a bit of physical therapy for this and it has finally gone away.

What's actually going on that's causing this pain:

The basic premise is that your pelvis is tipped forward on one (left) or both sides. This is primarily caused by overly tight hip flexors (rectus femoris, sartorius) on the side that's tipped forward. DON'T STRETCH THESE EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE TIGHT. They connect to the front of your pelvis where your pointy "hip bone" is on the front of the pelvis, and when overly tight, tilt/rotate the pelvis forward. Your hamstrings connect at your sits bones at the bottom of the pelvis to anchor it back/down. Those hamstrings probably feel tight because the pelvis is tilted forward, putting the hammies on stretch already. SO DON'T STRETCH THE HAMMIES EITHER. I stretched them a lot and it's made recovery take way longer than it should have. The reason I say to not stretch either your hamstrings or your hip flexors, is because at this point, your pelvis bones are not in the right position (it's not neutral), so stretching these muscles will actually cause MORE INSTABILITY because they're tight due to their poor positioning, not because the muscle is messed up.

Example of why not to stretch right now: Take the bottom right side of your shirt and bunch it up in your right hand so the shirt is tight around the abdomen. Now pull that bunched up part around your right side to the back of your hip. It's now in the wrong position, because it should be in the front. The front of your shirt is now tight, on stretch from the upper left to the lower right. If you keep hold of the bunched up shirt in the right hand but pull on the fabric at the upper left side of your shirt, it will actually stretch out the fabric, possibly tearing it because you're still holding onto the material with the right hand. That's like stretching with bad positioning. Stretching with good positioning would be more like just tucking your shirt in all the way, then pulling on the top left side, or just doing a side bend. It'll loosen the shirt, but it won't tear/stretch the fabric out.

Postural Restoration Institute (PRI) has exercises to turn on that hamstring, which will automatically make the hip flexors relax due to something called reciprocal inhibition. This might make some of the pain go away, but it won't solve everything. The pelvis moves in three planes of motion, and that just solves for one of them. Other PRI exercises will be given to you based on the muscle test results your PRI practitioner does on you. You'll likely get an exercise for the right outer hip, left inner thigh, and left outer hip (different muscle than on the right, though).

The next exercises you get will likely be to give you more external rotation on the right leg and more internal rotation on the left leg. This will also help to reposition the pelvis in a different plane from what you did by turning on the hamstring.

Once your pelvis is neutral (positioned properly), you'll likely be given exercises for the pelvic floor. The pain should have probably cleared up the time you get these, but keep doing the exercises given to you so the problem doesn't return.

QUICK FIX FOR TEMPORARY RELIEF:
1. Get a lacrosse ball or tennis ball and find a place to lie down on the floor.
2. Lie down on the side with the pain (usually the left, but can be both sides), placing the ball on the front of your hip by the pointy hip/pelvis bone. The key here is to lie at a 45º angle, with the ball directly under the tightest muscle on the front of your hip/pelvis. This may be inside the hip bone, which would be the hip flexors, or right outside the bone for your TFL muscle. Lie down on it, placing your top leg out to the side/front of you for support. So left leg long, right leg out to the side/front, ball under the left side.
3. Breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth gently for about 1-3 minutes, or until you feel that muscle loosen. Move it to any other tight muscle in that same area and relax onto that muscle. It's usually painful for most people. Just keep breathing in through the nose, out through the mouth and relax as much as possible.
4. Repeat on the other side if that one is tight also.

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i agree eric, thanks for the answers as to what worked,

wowwww u just made me stop fapping forever lol

I started to to get a pain in the groin shortly after wanking, even though I had the pain I'd carry on to completion. It's very difficult to give up as I've been wanking since I was 14. I'm 51 now!

I have aching pain in my left testical

I have the same type of pain. I don't know if you've fixed yours by now. Just wanted to know.

thanks man this explained alot to me

UTI. Antibiotics two wks.