[kevin b]

What’s the latest with your testicular pain, [USER=”2725″]VegasHernia[/USER] ?

[kevin b]

Thanks so much, [USER=”2580″]DrBrown[/USER]! Super helpful tips.
It’s been a bit of a roller coaster with a DVT clot & urinary retention. The testicle seems to be improving, though it’s still swollen.
I think I’m just paranoid about the skin pain. I know I probably just need to be patient, but my surgeon has been very low-key and didn’t really give me a heads up about some of these symptoms.
Just trying to make sure the skin thing isn’t a totally unusual problem.
Really appreciate your input!

[kevin b]

Hi everyone.

thanks so much for your comments and for asking how I was doing. Sorry I haven’t posted. A lot happened after my original post.

– I developed a deep vein blood clot in my left leg and was admitted to the hospital (2 days post op)
– I couldn’t urinate and they finally put in a catheter (3 days post op). They drained 1600ml of urine out my bladder once the catheter was in, which was the record for all my nurses. Yeesh that was painful.
– The nerve pain I described previously continued through the week, to the point that I couldn’t even move or get out of bed. At it’s worst early Sunday morning (5 days post-op) the nurses were in the the room just trying to give me pain meds and make me comfortable and my wife was just praying for me because the nerve pain kept firing even when I laid still in bed in the middle of the night.
– FINALLY… late morning Sunday, right before the pain management team at the hospital was about to take me for a nerve block (consulted with at the hospital at the request of my surgeon)… miraculously, the crazy nerve pain stopped. I was able to (very very slowly) start walking! I’m not sure how much of the improvement was due to the meds – but the mixture of meds I was on when the improvement came (and I’m still on it since) is Tramadol, Robaxin, Lyrica, and Tylenol. Plus eliquis for the blood clot.

SOOO… Here we are now, 9 days post-op, I’m back home from a 4 night hospital stay, taking lots of meds and still with a catheter, but things are improving each day. I’m walking with less pain (still a decent amount from the inguinal hernia surgery and muscles that were repaired). But I expected a decently long recovery from all that. So that’s ok. Catheter should come out tomorrow, if all goes well. And 2 wk post-op follow-up with my surgeon is on Monday.

Sorry for the very long story. It’ has been a very dramatic week. I’m so thankful that the nerve pain went away. I’m so grateful that I ended up one of the greatest hospitals in the HUGE Houston, TX med center. I was thankful to be near such a great hospital system. This is where my surgeon operates.

THANKS EVERYONE here! Thanks especially to [USER=”2580″]DrBrown[/USER] and [USER=”935″]drtowfigh[/USER] for all your input. Hearing from doctors who cared and were knowledgeable meant so much during a very dark week.

[kevin b]

Thanks for your replies everyone. I’ve actually ended up hospitalized due to a blood clot in my left leg. Once I got in, I couldn’t urinate, so they had to catheterize me as well. Strangely, the only time the nerve pain seemed slightly better was when my bladder was very full (1600mg of urine!).

Sadly, I haven’t gotten to speak with my surgeon. He’s out of town for the week. His partners are discussing the issue. They tried a lidocaine patch, but not drugs seem to touch it.

[USER=”2580″]DrBrown[/USER] the pain feels deeper within the skin (in the region of what I guess is the spermatic cord). If the issue is an injury to the cord, is there a way forward to address it? What steps forward would you suggest?

thanks for any help you can offer. I’m very grateful.