Lost Testicle

Has anyones boy had this problem? If so how was it fixed.

Andrew went to the dr today as he has been complaining or a sore penis and the dr couldn't find his right testicle. He thinks it has gone right up into his body and he is having a scan on Monday to see where it is and what they next step is.

I thought its a hernia (sp) if that happens - could be totally wrong though!

With my friends little boy they just made a small 2 cm incision. She explained it like this which makes sense as my son had the hydrocele so some of it sounds familiar to me.

When little boys are under 2 there testies can travel between the abdomen and the sack thing. Around two they usually stay down and the opening closes so they can't travel. In some cases it doesn't which means fluid builds up down there and you get a hydrocele like my son. In others it closes with the testie up and you get your sons scenario. They made a small incision in the lining and encourage testie down and then stitch it up so it can't travel up again.

I am no doctor this is just how she explained it over a cup of tea. Hope that helps. Her son was running around like a hooligan the day after. They only kept him in as he was bumped to later in the day. I think they were thinking of sending him home in the same day even.

It is never nice for your kids to have surgery no matter how big or minor it is. Hopefully there is another resolution for you or if it does have to be surgery it is over quickly and with minimal stress.

This happened to a friend of ours and my understanding is how kiwi2 has described. A minor op where they move it back down into position, her little boy was also back up and about with no ill effects in no time.

My friends son just had surgery for this the other day and he is only 8 months old. He was in and out in a day and it barely affected him.

Might be a bit harder for Andrew since he is older and understands more though.

Best wishes.

Oh poor little fella.  Sorry I don't have any advice, but just wanted to wish you luck for the scan on Monday xx

My dh has a testicle that goes up and down, I think it was worse as a kid but there's the (very odd) occasion that it willmove up now and he's 32.

Mil mentioned once a few years back that he might have trouble when we started ttc, but so far we've got lucky twice ;)

I think when he was a kid they just left it alone and told him not to play with himself!

Good luck with the scan on Monday. Fx no surgery required x

Good luck for the scan today and if you don't mind let us know how it goes.

Good luck becks,

I wonder how our DH's would feel about us talking about their testicles on the internet

Well it was sitting in the right place today at the scan. Not sure what is going on there now. She did a long scan and took lots of photos for our dr. Will have to wait for our gp to get hold of us to see why it is moving. When it moves up it hurts Andrew and I don't want him to be in pain after playing sport.