The pain a man dreads

19 June, 2011 - 11:41pm — lonewolf678

A dull pain in either one of the testicles... :(
I'm seriously hoping it's not Torsion or Cancer.

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20 June, 2011 - 12:42am — Dracofangxxx

Are you, by chance...

A hypochondriac? :)
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That's redick!

20 June, 2011 - 1:30am — jeff

Of the three diagnoses...

in this thread, this one has the highest probability. ;-)

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20 June, 2011 - 1:33am — lonewolf678

So,

if my left testicle hurts and I have trouble walking and sitting, it's in my head?

20 June, 2011 - 1:40am — jeff

Well...

If that happened to me, I'd make an appointment with a doctor, not self-diagnose or immediately think it was cancer. You can have a problem and be a hypochondriac, not mutually exclusive. ;-)

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20 June, 2011 - 2:10am — lonewolf678

I won't be able to get it checked out for maybe two days. I never assume it's a super bad thing but you always need to rule out every single thing. But it's really freaked me out though. Have you ever had this problem?

20 June, 2011 - 2:50am — jeff

No...

But coming up with a list of things it could be, without the ability to rule them out, isn't really helping. Initially you had a sore testicle, now you have a sore testicle, a few things that it could be, and stress. So, the situation hasn't improved.

Of course, that is normal. Most of my family gets annoyed by the fact that I refuse to stress out about things I can't control. Even if I thought it were cancer, I wouldn't be stressed. I'd wait to hear what the doctor said, and see where things went from there. As stress cures nothing, it seems to add no value. Just augments frustration.

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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." - Kurt Cobain