Pain Diary

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Pain Diary

Fri, April 1

Woke up at 10:00 am today. Today was another off-day from work. Had an 11:00 am appointment with an endocrinologist, which I scheduled because of the orchiectomy I underwent. The burning sensation in my scrotal area started within about 10 minutes of waking up, and was with me during the whole 30-minute car ride to the endocrinologist. The endocrinologist said that she wants to test my levels to see if I may need testosterone. I go in for that test tomorrow morning.

Managed to go to the gym around 1:00pm again. The scrotal pain was not as intense during my gym visit today, so I managed to get a decent back workout. I tried doing some jogging on the treadmill after lifting weights, but this caused the scrotal burning to intensify, so I only managed about 4 minutes before having to stop. I miss the days prior to my surgical injury when I would do 45 minutes easily.

Went to my office at work for a bit after the gym. Tried to get some things done, but as sitting causes the pain in my scrotum to worsen, I couldn’t really concentrate.

Leaving the office, I started to get an intense headache and hot feeling in my head. I get quite often ever since the surgery. Why do I get this? I can’t figure out why a headache would be connected to nerve damage in the groin.

Went to eat at an italian restaurant with my dad around 6:30. I took 10 mg of percocet prior to going to dinner with him so that I could relax and be without pain. The headache was present but the scrotal pain wasn’t bad.
We had a nice meal and conversation. I feel so bad for him. He wants so badly for me to get better, but feels helpless.
He doesn’t deserve to see me like this. He lost his wife of 44 years back in 2012, and now has had to watch me deteriorate physically and emotionally since I sustained this surgical injury. It’s not fair.

It’s 12:40 am right now. I hate being in this prison of pain. I try to have hope that one day I’ll have a surgery that can fix this. But that day seems so far away. Going to try to sleep now.

Goodnight diary.