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[dom]

Hi this is a long story and i might go round the houses telling it so bear with me please

About twenty years ago i was involved in a fracas with another guy who was beating his girlfriend up in a shop doorway at about 12pm at night in a particularly rough area in London , i was winning when the police came from nowhere around the corner and grabbed both of us,they let me go and like a fool i picked his jacket up from the floor and went to hand it to him he lunged forward from the grip of the policemen and kicked me in my crown jewels:( i punched him back and was immediately restrained, eventually they let me go but bundled him into the back of the van [it turned out he was a pimp]and the woman was angry with me

It was obviously painful the next day but the swelling went down and i carried on with life
now fast forward 16 years [ten years ago this month] i had my accident and was in hospital awaiting the back surgery, a doctor? came into the ward chatted with me the roughly squeezed my scrotum and then said 'did you feel that? ! which i replied vehemently in the affirmative!
He said 'no it's definitely not right, and that was the last i saw of him ever!!!

Fast forward 5 years ago i noticed my right testicle was swollen although not painful, i was referred to the hospital for a scan etc and given the diagnosis that it was a harmless cyst and is quite common for men in their forties to get.
but they said to have it checked up the following year or if it got bigger/changed hardness etc

I forgot to go and went about three years later [ two years ago] they still said its the same

now to near present i told the doc again about it about six months ago and had it checked out again with the usual no problems, but to come in six months [now] they checked it last week and said no problem, come back in six months

But out of the blue i had a letter informing me to go for a 'surveillance' cystoscopy i am a little worrried as i rarely have uti's and read that bleeding could occur afterwards in the urethra also a biopsy might need to be taken from the bladder wall, i had a chat with a friend who had one and he says he has not been the same since! more frequency with urinary urgency pain in stomach and more uti's
I am not sure what to do as tenyears with insignificant problems warns me that 'what's not broke doesn't need mending'?

[edlee]

Dom,, the cysto really has nothing to do with your kick in the balls,, but may be just what they say. The main purpose of this procedure is to check the bladder for tumors or lesions that may be cancerous. Not a lot different than getting scoped up the but to check that area out. After you pass 50,, it seems to be the thing doctors like to do.

I've had both done,, the cysto a number of times, since the first one picked up a small tumor ( which they removed) and like to check for reoccurance.

I can't tell you about it causing leakage,, because I had that before I ever got the scope. The UTIs,,, there's no reason that it should increase those.

If you just don't want it,,, well,, hell ,, life's a continual crap shoot anyway,, so, not having it isn't likely to hurt you percentage wise.
ed

[dom]

edlee, on 09 December 2011 - 08:15 PM, said:

Dom,, the cysto really has nothing to do with your kick in the balls,, but may be just what they say. The main purpose of this procedure is to check the bladder for tumors or lesions that may be cancerous. Not a lot different than getting scoped up the but to check that area out. After you pass 50,, it seems to be the thing doctors like to do.

I've had both done,, the cysto a number of times, since the first one picked up a small tumor ( which they removed) and like to check for reoccurance.

I can't tell you about it causing leakage,, because I had that before I ever got the scope. The UTIs,,, there's no reason that it should increase those.

If you just don't want it,,, well,, hell ,, life's a continual crap shoot anyway,, so, not having it isn't likely to hurt you percentage wise.
ed

Thanks Ed yes i suppose it's a good idea to have it checked [same as an MOT for a car] and might as well find out if there is any corrosion in the exhaust before it completely falls off lol