I'm a 17 year old guy and the Saturday before last I felt a sharp pain in my testicle while I was in bed and when I stood up to check it out but my testicle felt fine, but I noticed that I had also seemed to loose a little sensation in it, and it also started to feel a little harder than the other one. For the next two days my testicle would feel uncomfortable, kinda hurts even at times, and mostly when I was sitting down. After those two days my testicle was feeling much better (still less sensation) and I therefore thought I'd go for a jog like I usually do without having to worry about my testicle hurting. It was fine during the run, but after I sat down when I was done it wasn't long before it briefly started hurting again. I went to a clinic the next day, the doctor felt my testicle and took a urine test and whatnot, and concluded that it was fine. However, after taking a break from jogging until tonight, maybe 8 days later, it's started feeling uncomfortable all over again, and briefly felt harder than the other once more -- quite noticeably so in fact... Anyway, I just want to know if there really could be something wrong with my testicle, and if so, any treatment. Despite what the Doctor had said, I really am convinced that there's something wrong with it. I mean, there's no way that your testicle feeling more number than the other and hurting every time I exercise is normal.
You're quite right. Doctors are only human, and 'seems fine' is really 'I can't find anything'. That's fair enough if the problem goes away, but if it's then interpreted as 'go away and don't bother me', and the problem persists, then it's not.
I've had a similar experience of testicle pain, but I know from observation that was brought on by constipation, and that doesn't sound like the issue here.
You're right to take the issue seriously, and you can either re-visit the same doctor (marginal benefit), try another doctor, or perhaps better, escalate this to a specialist (urologist, I guess, would be a good place to start)
Doctors may not like being bothered by things they can't solve, but it's your body, and if a symptom persists and is not normal (and pain and numbness are trying to tell you something), you're quite right to not let it go.
I've had a similar experience of testicle pain, but I know from observation that was brought on by constipation, and that doesn't sound like the issue here.
You're right to take the issue seriously, and you can either re-visit the same doctor (marginal benefit), try another doctor, or perhaps better, escalate this to a specialist (urologist, I guess, would be a good place to start)
Doctors may not like being bothered by things they can't solve, but it's your body, and if a symptom persists and is not normal (and pain and numbness are trying to tell you something), you're quite right to not let it go.
Well I didn't feel like following it up with my family doctor right after the clinic doctor told me it was fine, but now the the symptoms have persisted for so long I think I will. I know for sure it's not related to something like constipation because, well, that's really not a problem for me... Anyway, I just don't want to go to a urologist and probably have them tell me it's nothing like the doctor at the clinic. I guess I'm going to have to regardless.