How long were your testicles swollen?

[DeadlineDave]

Thanks....

[DeadlineDave]

Thanks!

[Rusty Dude]

i was swollen for 6 weeks and for the first 4 i was purple and the size of a gals softball.......

my scrotum peeled for the first many weeks and the purple was there for about 8 weeks, it wasn't painful after a short time, but I was concerned. i went in to see the Dr and he said everything looked fine which I wasn't convinced of. Hang in there you will get through it, i was also worried about infection but it wasn't.

[alans4570]

After reading these posts,I feel pretty fortunate. I was swollen for about 2 weeks. I had very limited time to ice because I was driving back to Wisconsin. I was really black and blue for about 3 weeks and two days short of my 4 weeks, everything is just fine. The most discomfort I have encountered was keeping it pointing up.

[JohnHC]

Penoscrotal for me. I was swollen like a grapefruit for about a week and it got more normal just after the second week. I did ice mine several times each day. Most of the bruising showed up the second or third day, wear loose clothing but snug underwear. It gets better, just listen to the Dr.

[Crazy_Horse]

Hello gentlemen! I reached out to the doc but haven’t heard back.

How long were your testicles swollen? I’m two weeks out and about the size of a grapefruit. No pain just really swollen and uncomfortable. Hoping I don’t have an infection.

Thank you!

I have the same issue. Look; You were 7” pre op. My own doctor called this evening, 3 days post op, and told me that the larger the unit, the more swelling is an issue.

Use the ice. Take the naproxen. Figure out a winch to haul yourself around until you get a handle on this thing. As far as infection: If it’s not gross or green or giving off a bad odor, it’s fine.

Go to CVS and buy some of that surgical soap. You pump it out of the bottle. Take a shower every time you go number 2 and clean your ass, your balls, and the incision, in that order. Pat it dry. Put a hand
towel on the edge of the vanity. Hoist your balls onto the towel on the vanity and take care of your business.

You’re going to be fine.

[returntocenter]

Here's my experience. Everything is great now, so as you read this keep in mind that I love my implant and have no regrets at all. In fact, I wish I'd done it sooner.

At the start, I had trouble with a swollen ball on the right side, near the implant. Things seemed fine when I left the hospital, but somehow my body reacted funny over the next day or two. I've always wondered whether I did something over-agressive to cause that. In addition to being swollen, the testicle seemed to be attached to the pump. I couldn't really get in there to feel the pump. The doctor had told me to "pull the pump down", but I couldn't figure out how to get my hands on it independent of the testicle, which I didn't (obviously) want to tug on.

I kept notes, and at two weeks, I wrote this: "Things still feel pretty weird around my right testicle, so I've been very tentative in even touching it at all. When I do touch, it's still like there's a big, weird lump (cardboard like?) down in the lower right. I think I can feel the ball of the pump but I've never clearly felt stuff further up. That would require poking and exploring harder than I want to. The doc said it was just a 'swollen testicle', but it seems like multiple different things in there. I don't know how different parts of a testicle might swell, though, so who knows."

At 4 weeks the swelling was down but it was still hard for me to feel the valve control above the pump. It wasn't until around the 8th week that stuff started to feel pretty normal. Up until the 8th week I struggled to deflate and sometimes I would give up and try again 30 minutes later. Now, a year and a half later, it is so normal and easy to deflate. I wonder if the valve was stiffer back then, if there was still some swelling blocking things, or if it's just that my fingers now know exactly what to feel for.

At 12 weeks I wrote: "My implant feels like part of me. Just normal. Inflating is easy, and I can even do it with my left hand. Deflation is easy and always works. (Sometimes it takes a bit longer than others, but it's never a problem. The skin feels 'thinner' and I can more easily feel the components on the pump. My fingers are so used to how everything is positioned that I can usually go directly to the deflate position with little if any feeling around for right spot. Partly because I'm used to it, I think, but also because the thin-ness lets me feel the correct 'landing spots' for finger and thumb."

All through this my doctor told me, "Your experience worse than average, but there's nothing I haven't seen plenty of times, and you are going to be completely fine." He was right.

Hey man, was your testicle riding up high on your scrotum and were you unable to pull it down? This is happening to me right now. Did it resolve on its own? What did you think it was in the end?

[19cmbonepressed]

weeks, months...i just remember very very swollen and hard, i wanted the doc to drain the dumb sack, but doc wanted natural bullshit healing...