Pain in the testicles - Causes, symptoms and treatment. MF.

The testicles are located in the scrotum and perform the following functions: the production of male sex hormones and sperm required for the fertilization process.

Causes of pain in testicles

Pain can appear at any age. The causes of pain in the testicles can be inflammatory or infectious diseases of the testicle or other organs of the reproductive system, such as:

• orchitis,
• epididymitis,
• prostatitis,
• chlamydia,
• mycoplasmosis,
• ureaplasmosis,
• also trauma and surgery,
• testicular tumors,

surgical pathology:

• inguinal hernia,
• varicocele,
• torsion of the testicle,
• hydrocele

and others. In some cases, the cause of chronic pain can not be identified.

Quite often this symptom occurs in young people due to the presence of unfulfilled sexual arousal, as when excited, blood accumulates not only in the penis, but also in the testicles. If there is no ejaculation during sexual arousal, there may be pain in the testicles. But this pain passes through itself in a few hours and without ejaculation. You can remove it and with the help of masturbation.

Also, pain in the testicles often occurs and, conversely, if the ejaculation is too frequent in a short period of time, such pain also passes by itself.

Diseases accompanied by pain in the testicles

When the testicle is injured, the very fact of the injury is present: the

• is closed( kick, fall, riding or cycling, etc.), the pain usually appears immediately and very strong( nausea, vomiting,pain shock), often the scrotal hematoma develops, it increases in size, swelling occurs, the testicle thickens;
• open( cut, chipped, torn, gunshot) is the heaviest.

When is received, the testicle must be promptly referred to a urologist or a surgeon( to a urologist is better), so the consequences of injuries can be very serious - loss of testicle viability, infertility and others.

Torsion of the testicle - is worried about severe pain, can occur with and without trauma on the background of complete well-being. If you do not immediately go to the doctor, then necrosis of the testicle will occur, and it will die. Testicular torsion usually occurs up to thirty years, more often in childhood.

With inflammation of the epididymis( epididymitis ) the pain is also very severe, but it is usually one-sided and develops within a few days( usually three).The cause of epidemitis is both normal microorganisms, and those that are sexually transmitted, or can come from a focus of infection( with prostatitis, for example).In addition to pain, the testicle is enlarged in size and compacted, there may be a burning sensation in the urethra and general manifestations - an increase in body temperature, a change in the lymph nodes( their enlargement and soreness with pressure).Inflammation of the epididymis is also dangerous due to the development of infertility and impotence, therefore it is necessary to go to the doctor.

Inflammation of the testicles( orchitis), is not common, and mostly as complications of mumps( or mumps).In addition to pain in the testicles, there are also an increase in their size, as well as a high temperature, a lesion of salivary glands, after this disease testicular atrophy occurs, which can lead to infertility, so you should not go to treatment yourself, but you need to go to a doctor.

Another cause of pain can be hernia when lowering into the scrotum, when the contents of the hernia squeeze the testicles. Sometimes pain in the testicles can occur when the sensitivity is reflected in urolithiasis, tumors or kidney cysts.

For dropsy pain usually is not characteristic, it occurs only when an inflammatory process is attached. Also not is characterized by pain in the testicles in case of tumor lesions.

Test for pain in the testicles

If the pain in the testicles worries for more than a few hours and is not associated with sexual activity, you must always consult a urologist. If this symptom is available, the doctor may need such methods to diagnose his cause: general blood and urine tests, sperm analysis, scrotal ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, testicular biopsy, and a number of other methods.

Treatment of pain in the testicles

Treatment of pain consists in the treatment of the identified disease. Do not take pain medications before visiting a doctor, this will make diagnosis more difficult. After the diagnosis for pain relief, the doctor may prescribe pain medication.

Summing up, it can be said that this sign is dangerous and serious( as the pathology that causes it is very serious), untimely contact with a doctor can lead to infertility, impotence and other unpleasant consequences.